Professional Description
Zelinsky teaches a wide range of courses covering various historical
periods and genres. Her main area of specialization is
eighteenth-century fiction, with a special interest in the rise of and
literary connections between women novelists from the early to late
eighteenth-century, including such writers as Penelope Aubin, Charlotte
Lennox, Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft and Frances Burney. In
keeping with her more recent interests, Zelinsky has taught courses in
the history of Illness Narratives and in literary representations of
lesbian space/place. Her current research project involves
contextualizing Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" within a tradition of female elegists. She is also working on an interdisciplinary, English/Social Work, course on Lesbian Oppression.