Teaching Staff by Subject

Eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature, the culture of sensibility and sentimentalism, Romanticism and War, the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, eighteenth-century moral philosophy, medicine and science in the long eighteenth century, the history of sympathy, literary criticism and theory, psychoanalytic approaches to literature.

Selected Publications:

Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

‘Godwin’s Case: Melancholy Mourning in the Empire of Feeling’. Studies in Romanticism 48.3 (2009): 491-519.

‘“She Fell Senseless on His Corpse”: The Woman of Feeling and the Sentimental Swoon in Eighteenth-Century Fiction.’ Romantic Circles, Praxis Series. ‘Romantic Psyche and Psychoanalysis’ issue. Ed. and int. Joel Faflak. December 2008.

‘I Will Not Weep’: Reading through the Tears of Henry Mackenzie’s Man of Feeling’. Modern Language Review 103.4 (October 2008): 952-68.

 ‘Sensibility in Dissection: Affect, Aesthetics, and the Eighteenth-Century Body in Pain’. Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 9.2 (2003): 148-73.

‘The Unreadability of the Bildungsroman: Reading Jane Eyre Reading’. The Anachronist. Budapest, 2000: 102-38.