Cecilia A. Feilla received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New
York University and is currently Assistant Professor of English at Marymount Manhattan
College in New York City. She has been a research fellow of the Folger Shakespeare
Library in Washington, D.C. and the Collegium Philosophiae Transatlanticum at the
Philipps Universität-Marburg, Germany, and scholar-in-residence at NYU.
Her work on the eighteenth century includes articles in Eighteenth-Century Life,
The Yale Journal of Criticism, Eighteenth Century: Theory and
Interpretation, and Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, as well as
a critical edition of the novel, La Tribu indienne, ou Eduard et Stellina
(The Indian Tribe, or Edouard and Stellina, 1799) by Lucien Bonaparte, published in the MHRA
Critical Texts Series in 2006. She currently serves as Director of British Literature for the
Northeast Modern Language Association.
