19th-c Brit Lit
The Routledge Anthology of British Women Playwrights, 1777-1843
The Routledge Anthology of British Women Playwrights, 1777-1843 brings together ten eclectic plays by female dramatists and writers, to stimulate a rich discussion of women, writing, and theatre history. Ranging through tragedy, comedy, musical theatre and mixed-genre texts, this volume celebrates the breadth and experimental spirit of women’s eighteenth- and nineteenth-century dramatic writing. Each play is […] Read more
(Digital) Byron / (Humanities) Hunt: Revisiting Byron’s Relationship with Hunt through the Use of Digital Humanities Tools
Although based in large part on works previously published, Hunt’s Autobiography is probably the most important work of his later life, and rightly deserves Thomas Carlyle’s praise as being ‘by far the best of the autobiographic kind I remember to have read in the English language’. While a large section of the material included in […] Read more
Leigh Hunt, Rebooted: Textual Editing and Digital humanities
This talk will begin with a discussion of Leigh Hunt’s newspaper The Examiner, Hunt’s most famous publication as editor in the frst two decades of the 19th-century, and the complex politics of authorial revisions and reception history it received in Hunt’s ‘Autobiography’. It will also engage with the challenges in representing online Hunt’s complex set of relationship […] Read more
Leigh Hunt, Textual Studies, and Digital Humanities
This talk will investigate the complex politics of authorial revisions and reception history of Hunt’s 1850 and 1860 Autobiography, with specific references to the newspaper The Examiner. This periodical was Hunt’s most famous publication as editor in the first two decades of the 19th-century, and the work that gave him a place of prominence within […] Read more
Appointment as co-director of NINES
NINES is excited to announce that Michael Sinatra has been named Co-Director of NINES, sharing the role with Andrew Stauffer of the University of Virginia. Launched in 2005 by Jerome McGann at the University of Virginia with the support of the Mellon Fondation, NINES is a scholarly organization devoted to forging links between the material archive of […] Read more
Round-table on ‘Romanticism and Material Culture’
December 12, 2016 • 14h 16h
Salle C-2059, Carrefour des arts et des sciences
Organized by the section études anglaises of the Département des littératures et des langues du monde, I will be chairing a round-table on ‘Romanticism and Material Culture’ on Monday 12 December: Sophie Thomas (Ryerson University): “Re-materializing Pompeii: Print, Trace, Cast” Julia Carlson (University of Cincinnati): “Tangible Print and the Poetics of Tact: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and […] Read more
2016-2017 syllabi
I have posted the syllabi for the three classes I’ll be giving in 2016-2017, one undergraduate course devoted to nineteenth-century novels, and two to vampires in film and literature (at the undergraduate and graduate levels). Read more
Editing Leigh Hunt: Exploring New Possibilities
Fall 2016
Description: This course is an advanced undergraduate class devoted to British novels published between the years 1816 (year of the publication of Jane Austen’s Emma) and 1895 (year of the publication of H.G. Well’s Time Machine). Students will be introduced to an array of theoretical approaches to these texts in order to broaden their perspective on […] Read more
Review of my Leigh Hunt book
I was pleasantly surprised to read a review of the paperback edition of my Leigh Hunt book posted on March 31st in the the Review section of Romantic Circles. Read more