Teaching Experience

Teaching is weaving two things together in complex patterns: imparting deeply researched and multi-linguistic information, and challenging to change the way one thinks.

Research

Romanticism (all of it); the history of literary theory; the Enlightenment; literature/cinema studies; the history and methodology of Comparative Literature.

Selected Publications

• Romanticism: Comparative Discourses (winner of the Barricelli prize)
• (Roman)ticism
• Romanticism: Comparative Discourses
• Romanticism Across the Disciplines
• Romanticism and the Object

Service

• Chair, Humanities and Comparative Literature Department (BYU)
• Head, Comparative Literature Department (University of Georgia)
• Executive Director, International Conference on Romanticism
• President, Western Regional Honors Council
• President, Rocky Mountain Society for Aesthetics
• Delegate, American Council of Learned Societies

Citizenship assignments

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