Helen Oesterheld

Associate Professor of English
LCH B344
(310) 243-3939
oesterheld@csudh.edu

Helen Oesterheld received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine in 2001. She specializes in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Literature with particular focus on women novelists, literature of sensibility, gothic fiction, utopian fiction, and representations of all-woman communities, real and imagined. She enjoys teaching a broad range of literature courses and she is an enthusiastic reader of contemporary novels. 

Selected Recent Publications:

“Nowhere Girl: Sarah Scott’s Millenium Hall and Representations of the All-Woman Community, 1750-1770.” In progress. 

“The Promise and Problem of All-Woman Communities, 1660-1850.” In progress.

Selected Recent Presentations:

"All-Woman Communities, Voluntary Celibacy, and the Incel's Rebuke." American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Denver, CO, March 2019.

“Leveraging Faculty Learning Communities to Support Student Success.” Co-presenter. Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching and Learning: Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning, Newport Beach, CA, February 2016.

“HIPs: Taking Student Success to Scale.” Co-presenter. Webinar presentation to the National Association of System Heads (NASH), January 2016​.

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