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Julia Wright
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Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair in European Studies julia.wright@dal.ca |
Teaching and Research Areas:
Irish literature, 1750-1900; nationalism and imperialism in European context; British Romantic literature; gothic literature and television
Selected Publications:
Monographs: Ireland, India, and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Cambridge UP, 2007; paperback, 2009); Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation (Ohio UP, 2003).
Edited collections: co-ed. with Joel Faflak, A Handbook to Romanticism Studies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012); co-ed. with Kevin Hutchings, Transatlantic Literary Exchanges, 1790-1870: Gender, Race, and Nation (Ashgate, 2011); editor, A Companion to Irish Literature (2 vols.; Wiley-Blackwell, 2010); co-ed. with Jason Haslam, Captivating Subjects: Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century (U of Toronto P, 2005); co-ed. with Joel Faflak, Nervous Reactions: Victorian Recollections of Romanticism (SUNY, 2004), co-ed. with Tilottama Rajan, Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre (Cambridge UP, 1998; paperback, 2006).
Editions/Anthologies: co-ed. with Elizabeth Sauer, Reading the Nation in English Literature (Routledge, 2010); editor, Irish Literature 1750-1900: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2008); editor, The Missionary: An Indian Tale by Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson) (Broadview, 2002); editor, The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys by Lady Morgan (Broadview, in progress).
Special issues: editor, “Nineteenth-Century Ireland,” Canadian Journal of Irish Studies (2004) ; co-ed. with Lauren Goodlad, “Victorian Internationalisms,” Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (2007); co-ed. with Angela Esterhammer, “1798 and Its Implications,” European Romantic Review (1999).
Articles in such journals as ELH, European Romantic Review, Gothic Studies, Irish Studies Review, Keats-Shelley Journal, and Papers on Language and Literature, as well as various essay collections, including Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: The Nineteenth Century, Romantic Poetry, Milton and the Imperial Vision and Eating their Words: Cannibalism and the Boundaries of Cultural Identity; also entries in the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (rev. edition, 2012), Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), and the Encyclopedia of Celtic History and Culture (ABC-Clio, 2006).
Book Series: co-ed. with Kevin Hutchings, Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies.
Recent keynotes/plenaries:
The Wordsworth Conference (Grasmere, UK; 2008); American Conference on Irish Studies (Madison, Wisconsin, 2011); International Conference on Romanticism (Montreal, 2011).
Awards:
F.E.L. Priestley Award (1994); John Charles Polanyi Prize for Literature (1997); Northeast MLA Book Award (2002); SSHRC Standard Research Grants (1997-2000; 2002-2005; 2006-2009; 2009-2012); CFI grants (2002-2005; co-applicant, 2007); Canada Research Chairs (2002-2005, 2005-2010, 2010-2012).
Current Professional Positions:
Executive, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism; Executive, Discussion Group for Anglo-Irish Literature (Modern Language Assoc.); editorial boards: Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, Genders, and Nineteenth-Century Studies.
Current Research:
literature and the emergence of modern nationalism in Europe; canon-formation and Irish literature, 1750-1900; Irish landscapes from topographical verse to the gothic; gothic television
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