Academic and Administrative Positions
Education
Honours and Awards
Scholarly Associations
Research Fields
Publications
Teaching
Academic and Administrative Positions
Principal, Victoria College in the University of Toronto
Professor, Department of English, University of Toronto
Chair (Lehrstuhl) in English Literature, University of Zürich
Distinguished University Professor Emerita and Adjunct Research Professor, Western University
Visiting Professor, Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto
Visiting Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
Distinguished University Professor, University of Western Ontario
Associate Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Western Ontario
Acting Dean, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Western Ontario
Visiting Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
Full Professor and Department Head, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Western Ontario
Visiting Professor, Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin
Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario
Assistant Professor, Department of English and Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Western Ontario
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Education
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Princeton University. Dissertation: "Vision and the Limits of Language: The Poetics of Blake and Hölderlin"
Universität Konstanz, Germany. Comparative Literature.
Universität Tübingen, Germany. Classical languages (Greek, Latin, Hebrew).
Honours B.A., University of Toronto (Victoria College). English and Literary Studies.
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Honours and Awards
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship
Election to Academia Europaea
Distinguished University Professor (University of Western Ontario)
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship
Research Fellowship, Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin
Hellmuth Prize for Achievement in Research
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship
John Charles Polanyi Prize for Literature
Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities
Toronto Arts Awards Foundation Protege Award
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship
John H. Moss Graduating Fellowship, University of Toronto
Governor General's Gold Medal, Victoria University in the University of Toronto
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Scholarly Associations
- Founding Member and Member of the Executive Committee, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), 1991-present
- Board of Trustees, Wordsworth Conference Foundation, 2006-2014
- International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA)
- Elected Member, Executive Council, 2007-2013
- Member of the Coordinating Committee for the book series Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, 2010-2013
- Invited Member, ICLA Committee on Literary Theory, 1997-2007
- Secretary, 2001-2006
- Canadian Comparative Literature Association (CCLA)
- Vice-President, 2001-2003
- President, 2003-2005
- Past President, 2005-2007
- Modern Language Association (MLA)
- Representative, MLA Division on European Literary Relations, 1995-2000
- Chair, 1999
- Delegate, MLA Delegate Assembly, 1997-2000
- British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS)
- Wordsworth-Coleridge Association
- German Society for English Romanticism (GER)
- Swiss Association of University Teachers of English (SAUTE)
- Swiss Association for Comparative Literature (SGAVL)
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Research Fields
- British, German, and European Romanticism and 19th-century culture
- performativity and performance
- nineteenth-century print culture
- cultural mobility and cultural transfer
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Publications
Books and book-length collections
- Co-editor (with Diane Piccitto and Patrick Vincent), Romanticism, Rousseau, Switzerland: New Prospects. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming 2015).
- Co-editor (with Diane Piccitto and Patrick Vincent), Romantic Prospects. Special issue of European Romantic Review 24.3 (June 2013). 132 pp.
- Co-editor (with Alexander J. Dick), Spheres of Action: Speech and Performance in Romantic Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. 306 pp.
- Romanticism and Improvisation, 1750-1850. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 288 pp.
- Co-editor (with Jefferson J. A. Gatrall), Identity and Community: Constructions, Deconstructions, Reconstructions. Special issue of the journal Arcadia (Amsterdam), 2008.
- Editor, Northrop Frye on Milton and Blake. Volume 16 of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 490 pp.
- Spontaneous Overflows and Revivifying Rays: Romanticism and the Discourse of Improvisation. Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, 2004. 40 pp.
- Co-editor, with Vladimir Biti. Framing Contingency. Special issue of Arcadia 39 (2004), No. 2. 120 pp.
- Editor, Romantic Poetry. Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002. 537 pp.
- The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism. Stanford University Press, 2000. 357 pp.
- Co-editor, with Julia M. Wright. 1798 and Its Implications. Special issue of European Romantic Review 10 (1999). 137 pp.
- Creating States: Studies in the Performative Language of John Milton and William Blake. University of Toronto Press, 1994. 245 pp.
- Two Stories of Prague, by R. M. Rilke. A translation and critical introduction. University Press of New England, 1994. 109 pp.
- Editor, Philosophies of Genre. Special Issue of European Romantic Review, 5 (1994), No. 1. 131 pp.
- Co-editor, with Tilottama Rajan, Special Issue of The Wordsworth Circle, 25 (1994), No. 1. 56 pp.
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Undergraduate Teaching (Selected Courses)
- Grand Tours and Southern Exposures in the Long Nineteenth Century (lecture course)
- The Romantics and Switzerland (lecture course)
- Romanticism, Media, and Celebrity (lecture course)
- Jane Austen and Romantic Fiction (seminar)
- Jane Austen: Literary and Linguistic Perspectives (seminar co-taught with Marianne Hundt)
- Romantic Women Writers (seminar)
- Performances of Self and Society: Sterne to Wilde (colloquium)
- Improvisation, Identity, and Self-Fashioning, 1750-1850 (lecture course)
- Southern Exposure: Visions of Italy in 19th-Century English Literature (seminar)
- History of English Literature after 1789 (lecture and tutorial)
- Byron, Byronism, and the Byronic Hero (lecture course)
- Romanticism and Revolution (seminar)
- Comparative Literature and Culture 020 - Western Culture across the Ages
- Comparative Literature and Culture 270G - The Romantic Period
- Comparative Literature and Culture 271G - Nineteenth-Century Culture
- English 205F/G - Literature of the Bible
- English 250E - Romantic Literature
- English 244E - Nineteenth-Century Literature
- English 445F - Milton, Blake, Wordsworth
- English 446G - Milton and the Romantics
Graduate Teaching (Selected Courses)
- The Literary Scene of the 1820s
- Nineteenth-Century Fiction and Print Culture
- Advanced Colloquium in Romanticism and Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Reading Byron, Theorizing the Self
- William Blake in History and in Theory
- Performativity
- English / Comparative Literature 533a - The Bible and Contemporary Theory
- English / Comparative Literature 559b - Romantic Performances
- English / Comparative Literature 556 - Romanticism and Performativity
- Theory and Criticism 566b - Performativity
- English 535b - Milton and the Romantics
- English 606 - Bibliography
- English 559b - Speech-Act Theory and Romantic Literature
- Theory and Criticism 521a - Speech-Act Theory
- English 710b - Twentieth-Century Language Theory and the Literary Text
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