Courses
English 455: MAJOR AUTHORS -- TOPIC: Frances Burney and Jane Austen
English 500: INTRO TO CRITICISM & RESEARCH (With Gordon Hutner; Summer Session I)
ENGLISH 429: EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FICTION
ENGLISH 527: SEMINAR IN 18TH CENTURY LITERATURE
ENGLISH 581: CONTESTED PASTS, ALTERNATIVE FUTURES: LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ECOLOGY
Areas of Interest
Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Literature; Media and Cultural Studies; Literary Theory; Gender Studies; the Relations between Literature and Science; and Science Fiction.
Publications
Books:
The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1730.
Cambridge University Press 2005.
Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination. Duke
University Press, 2005.
Virtual Realities and Their Discontents (ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Fallen Languages: Crises of Representation in Newtonian England, 1660-1740. Cornell University Press, 1993.
Two-Edg'd Weapons: Style and Ideology in the Comedies of Etherege, Wycherley, and Congreve. Oxford University Press, 1988.
Multimedia:
Red Planet: Scientific and Cultural Encounters with Mars (coauthor with Michelle Kendrick, Harrison Higgs, and Helen Burgess). DVD-ROM. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.
Recent Essays:
Articles on Daniel Defoe, Aphra Behn, John Milton, John Locke, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne, Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, Isaac Newton, Virtual Reality, Science Fiction, and The X-Files.
"Behn and the Unstable Traditions of Social Comedy." The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn. Ed. Derek Hughes and Janet Todd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
"Gulliver and the Japanese: The Limits of the Postcolonial Past." Modern
Language Quarterly 65 (2004), 457-479.
"Riches, Power, Trade, and Religion: The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600-1720." Renaissance Studies 17 (2003), 433-55.
"New Media and the Natural World: The Dialectics of Desire." Bucknell Review 46:2 (2003), 33-57.
Work in Progress:
Book manuscript on England, India, and China, 1740-1850.
Articles on language and astronomy, media culture, women and the novel in the long eighteenth century.
Links of Interest
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