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Gary Handwerk
Professor and Chair of Dept. of English
Areas of Study: theory and criticism, British and continental 19th and 20th century narrative
Education: Ph.D., Brown University
Current Interests and Research: Gary Handwerk works on modern European narrative and narrative theory, with particular interest in narrative ethics and the relation between political philosophy and fiction. His recent publications have focused on Romantic-era texts and include critical editions of William Godwin's Caleb Williams and Fleetwood (Broadview Press) and essays on several of Godwin novels and on Rousseau's Emile. He is the translator and editor of Volume I of Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human (Stanford University Press), author of an article on Romantic irony in the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. His latest interest is in literature and the environment, both as a field of study (from Defoe's Robinson Crusoe to the present) and as a topic for fostering ongoing collaborative activities among university and high school classes.
Recent Publications:
- "Beyond Beginnings: Friedrich Schlegel and Romantic Historiography" in Idealism without Absolutes, ed. Tilottama Rajan and Arkady Plotnitsky (Albany: SUNY Press, 2004)
- "Mapping Misogyny: Godwin's Fleetwood and the Staging of Rousseauvian Education," Studies in Romanticism 41 (2002)