Jennifer Hall-Witt

Lecturer

Jennifer Hall-Witt received her B.A. in history at Northwestern University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in history at Yale University . Previously, she has taught at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and at Denison University in history and women's studies. She specializes in the cultural history of eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain , with a particular interest in gender history, the history of the arts, and political culture. Her book, Fashionable Acts: Opera and Elite Culture in London, 1780-1880, was published by the University Press of New England in July 2007. This study approaches the opera as a social (and gendered) space, using it to develop new perspectives on the decline of the British aristocracy by exploring changes in the elite's cultural practices and modes of public display from the 1780s to the 1880s. In Fall 2007 she will teach HST233, A Cultural History of Britain and its Empire, 1688-1914 and HST335, Art, culture, and leisure in British society, 1660-1901.

Phone: 413-585-3359
Office: Wright Hall 122
Email: jhallwit@smith.edu
Office Hours: Thursday 2:30-4:00 p.m. and by appointment

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