B.A. Brown University (1986); Ph.D. Johns Hopkins (1995). Sharon Marcus specializes in nineteenth-century British and French fiction, and has taught courses on the novel, Victorian genres, narrative theory, Oscar Wilde, theories of gender and sexuality, the city in nineteenth-century literature, and the year 1857 in England and France. Her first book, Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London (University of California Press, 1999), won honorable mention for the MLA Scaglione Prize for best book in comparative literature. Her second book, Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (Princeton: 2007), is appearing in French and Spanish translations, and won the Perkins Prize for best study of narrative, the Albion prize for best book on Britain after 1800, the Alan Bray Memorial award for best book in queer studies, and a Lambda Literary award for best book in LGBT studies. She has published articles on Trollope, Charlotte Brontë, comparative sapphism, same-sex domesticity in Victorian England, Victorian fashion plates, Rosemary's Baby, sentimentality and cosmopolitanism in the writings of Anne Frank and Hannah Arendt, and the theory and practice of rape prevention, as well as overviews of the state of the three fields in which she works: queer studies, feminist criticism, and Victorian studies. She has been the recipient of Fulbright, Woodrow Wilson, and ACLS fellowships, and, at Columbia, of a Gerry Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award. She is currently writing a book about Oscar Wilde, Sarah Bernhardt, and theatrical celebrity in the nineteenth century.