Professor
eauerbach@dcs.wisc.edu
PhD, University of Washington, 1981.
British and American women writers; 19th-century English novel; Jane Austen; Emily Dickinson; music and literature
Searching for Jane Austen (2004 hardcover; 2006 paperback); Maestros, Dilettantes, and Philistines: The Musician in the Victorian Novel (1990); The Courage to Write I and II: Women Novelists of 19th-Century Europe and America (1991, 1993); numerous articles and reviews on topics ranging from George Eliot to Charles Dickens. Auerbach has received teaching awards (1992, 1994), broadcasting awards (1994), programming awards (1994, 1996), arts awards (1997, 1998) for her outreach lectures and radio scriptwriting and lifetime achievement awards (Wisconsin Alumni Association Cabinet 99 Award, 2006; Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters Fellow, 2006). For Wisconsin Public Radio, she serves as co-host of "University of the Air" broadcast statewide each week and is the project director of "The Courage to Write," an award-winning series of documentaries on women writers released nationally. Auerbach is director of the acclaimed UW Odyssey Project www.odyssey.wisc.edu, a free humanities course for adults near the poverty level.