Sabrina Fuchs Abrams is Professor of English in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program in the School for Graduate Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and a B.A. in English and American Literature from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges. She is coordinator of Advanced Certificates in Women's and Gender Studies and American Studies. She is the author of New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century and Mary McCarthy: Gender, Politics and the Postwar Intellectual and editor of <em>Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers and Literature of New York. She is founder and chair of the Mary McCarthy Society and Associate Editor of Studies in American Humor. Her teaching and research interests include modern American literature and culture, women writers, women's humor, and race, ethnicity, and gender studies.

Degrees

  • M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University
  • B.A. in English and American Literature from Harvard University

Publications

  • Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers. Ed and intro. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
  • Literature of New York. Ed. and intro. Newcastle, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.
  • Mary McCarthy: Gender, Politics, and the Postwar Intellectual. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2004.
  • Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Mary McCarthy Special Issue. Guest Ed. and Intro. New York: Taylor and Francis. Vol. 49.4, June, 2020.

  • New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century. Penn State University Press, 2023.