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Index

Academic Degrees
Publications
Issues Edited
Sessions Chaired
Papers Delivered
Works in Progress
Teaching Experience
Research and Teaching Interests
Awards
Organizations
References

ACADEMIC DEGREES

• Ph D: English Literature, University of Delaware (1998). Dissertation: "The Literary Relationships of Lord Byron and Thomas Moore," directors, Charles E. Robinson and Donald H. Reiman
• MA: English Literature, University of Delaware (1993)
• BA: English Literature, Washington College, cum laude (1991)

 

PUBLICATIONS

Book:

• The Literary Relationship of Lord Byron and Thomas Moore. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.  

Published articles:

• "The Standard of Revolt: Revolution and National Independence in Moore's Lalla Rookh." Forthcoming in Romanticism on the Net 34 (August 2004) .
• "Thomas Moore in Ireland and America: The Growth of a Poet's Mind." Romanticism 10.1 (2004), 41-62.
• "'The Ninth of November, Lord Mayor's Day, An Ode': A Burlesque Newly Attributed to Thomas Moore." Victorian Periodicals Review 36.4 (Winter 2003), 364-72.
• "Writing and Reading Thomas Moore's Biography of Byron." Byronic Negotiations. Ed. Katrina Bachinger. Vienna: Peter Lang Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2002, 24-39.
• "Byron's 'Impromptu on a Recent Incident': A New Text of a Regency Squib."  Keats-Shelley Journal 47 (1998), 29-31.
• "'My bright twin sister of the sky': Manfred, Moore's Loves of the Angels, and the Shadow of Augusta Leigh."  Byron Journal 26 (1998), 29-38.
• "'The bright sun was extinguish'd': The Bologna Prophecy and Byron's 'Darkness.'"  Wordsworth Circle 28.3 (Summer 1997), 183-92.

 

Notes:

• Explanatory notes. Selected Poetry of Lord Byron. Ed. Leslie A. Marchand. New York: Random House, 2001 (pp. 671-742).

 

ISSUES EDITED

• "Lord Byron's Canon." Special issue of Romanticism on the Net, forthcoming in 2006.

SESSIONS CHAIRED

 

• "Lord Byron and Romantic Politics." Annual Byron Society Session, Modern Language Association Convention (28-30 December 2002).

PAPERS DELIVERED

• "'Our Political Malice': Lord Byron, Thomas Moore, and the Whig 'Squib-Warfare' of 1812."  University of Delaware Colloquium (13 May 1998)
• "Moore's Biography of Byron: Strategy, Reception, Influence."  International Byron Symposium, Salzburg, Austria (1-3 August 1995).

  
  

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Books:

• Byronic Heroism: A study of the ideal of political leadership in the works and career of Lord Byron.
• New Letters of Thomas Moore: a supplementary volume to Wilfred S. Dowden's edition of Moore's letters. To date, I have collected and edited over 600 unpublished Moore letters.
• Thomas Moore: Selected Poetry and Prose: the first modern edition of Moore's most important works, including the Irish Melodies, Lalla Rookh, and The Fudge Family in Paris.

Articles:

• "Samuel Rogers's Secret Life" (Circulating.)
• "Byron, The Whig Poets, and 'Liberty'"
• "Shelley's Revolt of Islam and Moore's Lalla Rookh"

  

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Boston University

• HU 111: Gothic Literature (Fall 2003)
• HU 102: Humanities II: The Break with Tradition (Spring 2003)
• HU 101: Humanities I: Traditions in the Humanities (Fall 2002, Fall 2003)
• WR 150: Writing and Research Seminar: The Satirical Novel (Spring 2002)
• WR 100: Writing Seminar: Gothic Literature (Spring 2002)
• WR 150: Writing and Research Seminar: The Gothic Revival (Fall 2001)
• WR 100: Writing Seminar: The Art of Satire (Fall 2001)
• EN 201: Intermediate Composition (Fall 2000, Summer 2001, Spring 2001)
• EN 104: Expository Composition II (Fall 2000, Spring 2001)

University of Nottingham, England (Visiting Lecturer in the Romantics)

• Q3B320: Romanticism (Spring 1999)
• Q3A321: Romantic Literature (Spring 1999)

University of Delaware

• E302: Advanced Composition (Summer 1998)
• E301: Expository Writing (Spring 1998)
• E206: British Literature II, 1688-1850 (Winter 1995, Summer 1997, Summer 2000)
• E200: Introduction to the Short Story (Fall 1993, Spring 1993)
• Honors E110: Imagination and Society (Fall 1997, Fall 1998)
• Honors E110: Literature and Evil (Fall 1999)
• E110: Critical Writing and Reading (Fall 1994, Spring 1995, Fall 1996, Spring 1997, Fall 1997, Spring 1998, Fall 1998, Fall 1999, Spring 2000)
• E011: Remedial Writing (Spring 1992, Fall 1992, Spring 1992)
• University Writing Center Tutor (1991-92)

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

• British Romanticism
• Victorian Literature
• Gothic Literature
• Eighteenth-Century British Literature
• Literature and Composition
• History of the Novel
• Modern and Postmodern American Poetry

AWARDS

• Dissertation Fellowship, University of Delaware (1995-96)
• Teaching Assistantship, University of Delaware (1993-95)
• University Writing Center Assistantship, University of Delaware (1991-93)
• George Washington Scholarship, Washington College (1987-1991)
• National Merit Scholarship, Washington College (1987-1991)
• Sophie Kerr Creative Writing Scholarship, Washington College (1987-1991)

ORGANIZATIONS

• Modern Language Association
• Wordsworth-Coleridge Association
• International Byron Society

 

REFERENCES

• Professor Charles E. Robinson, (302) 831-3654, robinson@udel.edu
• Professor Donald H. Reiman, (302) 368-7199, dhreiman@udel.edu
• Professor Natalie J. McKnight, (617) 353-2876, njmck@bu.edu
• Professor Thorlac Turville-Petre, (0115) 951-5909, thorlac.turville-petre@nottingham.ac.uk
• Professor John Clubbe, (505) 988-2913, blythe@newmexico.com

A full dossier is available from Career Planning and Placement, Raub Hall, University of Delaware, (302) 831-8479.