HONORS:

-- Dorothy Collins Brown Fellow at the Henry Huntington Library, Summer 1993.

-- Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1988-89.

-- Dissertation defended with distinction, November 1988.

-- Ph.D. Qualifying examinations passed with distinction, March 1987.

-- University Fellowship for Graduate Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo, 1985-88.

-- Regents of the University of California Fellowship for Graduate Studies, 1983-84.

-- German Academic Exchange Fellowship for Study in the United States, 1982-83.

EMPLOYMENT:

1997-     : Associate Professor, Department of English, Duke University & Associate Professor of German Studies

1991-97: Assistant Professor, Department of English, Duke University

1990-91: Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Wisconsin--Madison

1989-90: Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Southern Maine

PUBLICATIONS--books, anthologies, & special issues:

Wordsworth's Profession: Form, Class, and the Logic of Romantic Cultural Production (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997) xiii + 460 pp.

Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion (co-editor); an anthology of twenty-one essays (Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 1998), vii + 475 pp.

Textual and Cultural Dissolution in English Romanticism (co-editor), a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly 95,iii (Summer 1996), iv + 276 pp.

Idealism and the Endgames of Theory: Three Essays by F. W. J. Schelling, trans. and edited with a critical introduction (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994), xiv + 293 pp.

Friedrich Hölderlin: Essays and Letters on Theory, trans. and ed., with a critical introduction (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987), xiv + 186 pp.

book in progress:

Still / Life: Interiority and Formalization, 1800-1915. [A study of lyricism as a form of virtual exile in German and English literature, with a primary focus on Keats, Clare, Hölderlin, Eichendorff, Heine, Droste-Hülshoff, Trakl, and an excursus on the songs of Robert Schumann]

essays:

"Still / Life: Interiority and Formalization after Kant." under consideration at MLQ. [a shorter version is forthcoming at Romantic Praxis, Summer 1998; cf.: http://www.otal.umd.edu/rc/praxis/index.html

"Bringing about the Past: Prophetic Memory in Kant, Godwin, and Blake." Romantic Praxis (1997); cf.: http://www.otal.umd.edu/rc/praxis/index.htm

"Reading beyond Redemption: Historicism, Irony, and the Lessons of Romanticism." Critical Introduction to Lessons of Romanticism, ed. Thomas Pfau and Robert F. Gleckner (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, forthcoming in February 1998)

"Paranoia Historicized: Legal Fantasy, Social Change, and Satiric Meta-Commentary in the 1794 Treason Trials." in Romanticism, Radicalism, and the Press, ed. Stephen C. Behrendt (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997)

"Searching their Hearts": Romantic Pedagogy, Social Ascendancy, and the Pleasures of Surveillance in Andrew Bell and Mary Wollstonecraft." Romanticism, 2:ii (1996): 220-46.

"'Beyond the Suburbs of the Mind': The Political and Aesthetic Economy of the Body in Malthus and Wordsworth." South Atlantic Quarterly 95,iii (Summer 1996): 629-69.

"Immediacy and Dissolution: Reflections on Moral Theory and the Logic of Critical Discourse." in Intersections: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory, ed. Tilottama Rajan and David Clark (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995)

"'Elementary Feelings' and 'Distorted Language': The Pragmatics of Culture in Wordsworth's Preface (1800)." New Literary History 24.i (1993): 125-46.

"The Pragmatics of Genre: Moral Theory and Lyric Authorship in Hegel and Wordsworth." Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Review, vol. 10,ii (1992): 397-422. [Reprinted in Intellectual Property and the Construction of Authorship, ed. Peter Jaszi and Martha Woodmansee (Durham: Duke UP, 1994)]

"Tropes of Desire: Figuring the 'Insufficient Void' of Self-Consciousness in Shelley's Epipsychidion." Keats-Shelley Journal, XL (1991): 99-126.

"Immediacy and the Text: Friedrich Schleiermacher's Theory of Style and Interpretation." Journal of the History of Ideas 51.i (1990): 51-73.

"Thinking before Totality: Kritik, Übersetzung, and the Language of Interpretation in the early Walter Benjamin." MLN (Comparative Literature Issue) 103.5 (1988): 1072- 97.

"Rhetoric and the Existential: Romantic Studies and the Question of the Subject." Studies in Romanticism, 26 (1987): 487-512.

book reviews:

Terence A. Hoagwood, Politics, Philosophy, and the Production of Romantic Texts (Carbondale: Northern Illinois UP, 1996); review forthcoming in Studies in Romanticism.

Martha Woodmansee, The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994); reviewed in Studies in Romanticism, 34 (1995): 490-95.

Edwin Stein, Wordsworth's Art of Allusion; reviewed in Studies in Romanticism, 29 (1990): 496-99.

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean Luc Nancy, The Literary Absolute; reviewed in Studies in Romanticism 29.2 (1990): 309-13.

Winfried Menninghaus, Unendliche Verdopplung: Die Grundlegung der frühromantischen Kunsttheorie im Begriff absoluter Selbstreflexion; reviewed in MLN (German Issue), 104.3 (1989): 729-33.

Andrzej Warminski, Readings in Interpretation: Hölderlin, Hegel, and Heidegger; reviewed in MLN (Comparative Literature Issue) 102.5 (1987): 1212-15.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Co-Organizer of "The Political and Aesthetic Education of Romanticism," a multi-disciplinary conference with some 200+ registered participants hosted under the auspices of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism at Duke niversity, 10-13 November, 1994.

COURSES TAUGHT (selection):

seminars in theory (undergraduate and graduate):

"Readings in Aesthetic Theory: Kant to Hegel" [readings included Kant, Novalis, Schlegel, Hölderlin, Hegel, and Eduard Hanslick]

"Readings in Theory: Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Freud"

"Modern Poetry and Poetics" [readings in Saussure, Mukarovski, Jakobson, Barthes, Paul de Man & poetry by Wallace Stevens and Paul Celan]

"Introduction to Theory" [Readings on the theory of language and rhetoric by Plato, Hugh Blair, Shelley, Nietzsche, Saussure, Jakobson, and J. L. Austin; and on the theory of interpretation by Aristotle, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, et al.]

"States of Representation: Poetry, Politics, and Cultural Capital in England, 1745- 1821."

"Figures of Interpretation in Romantic Poetry and Theory."

"Scandalous Forms: Keats, Shelley, Byron and the Cultural Industry of Regency England, 1812-1823."

"Radical Language: Revolution and Romanticism in England, 1789-1800."

"Poetic Styles and Social Effects: Wordsworth and Keats."

"Romanticism" [Survey Course: Readings ranging from Edmund Burke through John Clare]

"Introduction to Literary Genre & Critical Reading." [Course for pre-majors: readings in the past were selected from among the following: drama: Aeschylus, Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, Brian Friel, and Edward Albee; theory of tragedy: Aristotle & Nietzsche; poetry: Donne, Milton, Blake, Keats, Seamus Heaney; fiction: Defoe, Maria Edgeworth, C. Brontë, and Jean Rhys]

Freshmen seminar: "Nation-Building as Cultural Work: The Making of Britain, 1707-1800" [discussion of works by Hogarth, Händel, Thomson, Hume, Reynolds, Gray, Burke, Wordsworth et al.]

(1992-94): Director and Instructor of the Undergraduate English Honors Seminar (a two-semester sequence for ten senior English majors working on a long (approx. 120 pp.) critical thesis; admission is competitive.

PROFESSIONAL LECTURES (1990-):

"'Long before the time / Of which I speak': Traumatic History in Wordsworth's 'Michael'." Presented at 1798 and Its Implications, conference jointly organized by the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism and the British Association of Romantic Studies, July 6-10, St. Mary's University College, Strawberry Hill, England.

"The Voice of Critique: Pleasure and Cognition in Nineteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory." Invitational Lecture presented to the Washington Area Group on Romanticism, April 25, 1998.

"Still / Life: Interiority and Formalization after Kant." Invitational lecture presented at the University of Washington-Seattle, February 27, 1998.

"The Pleasure of Form: Aesthetic (Un)Knowing from Kant to Eduard Hanslick." Presented at Romanticism and its Others, an international conference at McMaster University, 23-26 October, 1997.

Organizer of "Romanticism's Other Disciplines: Law, Economics, Journalism, and the Professionalization of Experience" a special session held at Romanticism and its Others, an international conference at McMaster University, 23-26 October, 1997.

"Retroactivating the Past: Prophetic Cognition in Blake and Coleridge," a paper presented at Romantic Crossings, an international conference on Romanticism, Boston, November 14-16, 1996.

"Paranoia Historicized: Legal Fantasy, Social Change, and Satiric Meta-Commentary in the Context of the 1794 Treason Trials." Invitational Plenary Lecture presented at the 2nd National Graduate Conference on Romanticism at Cornell University, 6-7 April 1995 and at the 3rd meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism at the University of Maryland, July 1995.

"'The man, whose eye / Is ever on himself': The Ideological Functions of Self-Surveillance in Bell, Wollstonecraft, and Wordsworth." Presented at The Political and Aesthetic Education of Romanticism, an international conference organized by the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Duke U, Durham, 10-13 November 1994.

"Reproduction, Representation, and the Revision of the Social Body in Malthus and Wordsworth." Southeast Nineteenth-Century Studies Association meeting at Emory University, April 16, 1993 and at the Aphra Behn Society annual meeting, U of Southern Maine, 17-18 September 1993.

"Time, History, and the Structure of Aesthetic Labor: 'Tintern Abbey's Movement toward Form." First Annual Meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, U of Western Ontario, 26-29 August 1993.

"Boundaries of Temporality: Empirical Vision and Visionary Pragmatics in 'Tintern Abbey'." Presented at the annual British Studies Conference at Duke University, 18 October 1992.

"The Rhetoric of Social Apocalypse in Malthus and Wordsworth." Presented at the MLA convention in San Francisco, 28 December 1991.

"Signing on to Authority: Immediacy, Moral Speech, and Performative Theory." Presented at the 1991 MLA Convention in San Francisco.

"Figuration, Revision, and the Senses of the Affective in Fichte and Wordsworth." Sixteenth Annual Convention of the International Association of Philosophy and Literature at Montréal, Canada, 16-18 May 1991.

"Author(iz)ing a Collective Subject: Lyric Form, Moral Speech, and the Social Performance of Wordsworth's 'Ode to Duty.'" Conference on Intellectual Property and the Construction of Authorship at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, 18-21 April 1991.