McGill University
Department of English
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Arts Building
Montreal, QC H3A 0G5 CANADA
B.A; M.A.; Ph.D. (University of Bristol), Associate Professor, William Dawson Scholar
Nineteenth-century poetry, especially British Romanticism. The cultural history of celebrity. Periodicals and print culture. The theory and practice of interdisciplinarity. Reception history and cultural transmission.
The University of Bristol; The University of Glasgow.
- Internal SSHRC Grant 2011
- McGill-Vanderbilt Initiative, Faculty Exchange Grant 2011
- SSHRC Research Development Initiative grant 2010-12
- FQRSC Subvention de soutien aux équipes 2010-14
- Elma Dangerfield Prize, 2009
- SSHRC Standard Research Grant (2007-10)
- FQRSC programme pour l’établissement de nouveau professeurs-chercheurs (2006-2009)
Monograph:
Byron’s Romantic Celebrity: Industrial Culture and the Hermeneutic of Intimacy (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2007).
Edited collection:
Romanticism and Celebrity Culture, 1750-1850 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
Edition:
Volume editor for Blackwood’s Magazine 1817-1825, 6 vols, gen. ed. Nicholas Mason (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006).
Articles:
‘“A Sufficient Tincture of Literature”: Byron e il paradigma dei periodici [Byron and the periodical paradigm]’ in Byron e il segno plural: trace del sé, percorsi di scrittura, ed. by Diego Saglia (Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2011), pp. 125-44
‘Introduction’ in Romanticism and Celebrity Culture, ed. by Tom Mole (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 1-18.
‘Mary Robinson’s Conflicted Celebrity’ in Romanticism and Celebrity Culture, ed. by Tom Mole (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 186-206.
‘Lord Byron and the End of Fame’, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 11 (2008), 343-361.
‘The Bride of Abydos: The Regime of Visibility and the Possibility of Resistance’ in Liberty and Poetic Licence: New Essays on Byron, ed. by Bernard Beatty, Tony Howe and Charles E. Robinson (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2008), pp. 20-36.
‘Ways of Seeing Byron’ in Byron: The Image of the Poet, ed. by Christine Kenyon Jones (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008), pp. 68-78.
‘Impresarios of Byron’s Afterlife’, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 29.1 (2007), 17-34.
‘“Nourished by that Abstinence”: Consumption and Control in The Corsair’, Romanticism 12.1 (2006), 26-34.
‘Hypertrophic Celebrity’, M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, 7.4 (2004).
‘Byron’s “An Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill”: The Embarrassment of Industrial Culture’, The Keats-Shelley Journal 52 (2003), 97-115.
‘The Handling of Hebrew Melodies’, Romanticism 8.1 (2002), 18-33.
‘Byron, Westall, Asperne, Blood: An Early Engraved Portrait’, The Byron Journal, 29 (2001), 98-102.
‘Narrative Desire and the Body in The Giaour’ in Byron: A Poet for All Seasons, ed. by M. B. Raizis (Messolonghi: Messolonghi Byron Society, 2000), pp. 90-97.
I am currently researching the reception of Romantic authors in the later nineteenth century, paying particular attention to the material forms of cultural transmission.