Position:
Associate Professor
Office:
Arts 342
Phone:
514-398-4400 Ext 00794
Email Address:
david [dot] hensley [at] mcgill [dot] ca Mailing Address:
McGill University Department of English
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Arts Building
Montreal, QC H3A 0G5 CANADA
Degrees and Academic Title(s):
B.A. (Yale); B.A., M.A. (Cambridge); Ph.D. (Yale), Associate Professor
General Research Areas:
Eighteenth Century
Nineteenth Century
Theory
Teaching and Research Areas:
18th-century literature, philosophy and fiction, literary theory.
Taught previously at:
Rutgers University.
Awards and Fellowships:
- H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching
- SSHRC Research Grant
- SSHRC Research Time Stipend
Selected Publications :
"Clarissa, Coleridge, Kant, and Klopstock: Emotionalism as Pietistic Intertext in Anglo-German Romanticism," Studies in the Literary Imagination 28.1 (1995): 125-47.
"Thomas Edwards and the Dialectics of Clarissa's Death Scene," Eighteenth-Century Life 16, n.s., 3 (1992): 130-52.
Current Research:
Counter-Enlightenment religious ideology and theory of the novel in Samuel Richardson's fiction; editing "Clarissa'''s Reception in the Nineteenth Century (Volume 13 of the Clarissa Project).