Faculty Profile

aa1973@wayne.edu

Department

English

Phone

248-885-1342

Office

5057 Woodward Ave., Suite 9201
Detroit, MI 48202

Selected publications

Monographs: Jewish Representations in British Literature 1780-1840: After Shylock (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011); The Cosmopolitan Ideal in the Age of Revolution and Reaction, 1776-1832 (Pickering & Chatto, 2007); Seditious Allegories: John Thelwall and Jacobin Writing (Penn State University Press, 2001); Radical Shelley: The Philosophical Anarchism and Utopian Thought of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Princeton University Press, 1982).

Edited books: The Daughter of Adoption by John Thelwall (coedited with Y. Solomonescu & J. Thompson) (Broadview Press, 2013); Incle and Yarico and The Incas: Two Plays by John Thelwall (coedited with F. Felsenstein) (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2006); Poetry and Reform: Periodical Verse from the English Democratic Press 1792-1824 (Wayne State University Press, 1992).

Research Description

Romanticism, mostly British but also comparative (French, German); Jewish studies--Jewish representations, Anglophone Jewish literature; 18th/19th c. British literature--Godwin, Shelleys, Wollstonecraft, Thelwall, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Clare, Keats, Gothic writing, working-class writing; psychoanalytic criticism, as well as hermeneutics (Gadamer especially).

Affiliated Departments

English