David Hensley
Group:
Faculty Members
Position:
Associate Professor
Stream:
Literature
Degree(s):
B.A. (Yale); B.A., M.A. (Cambridge); Ph.D. (Yale), Associate Professor
Area(s):
Eighteenth Century
Nineteenth Century
Theory
Teaching areas:
18th-century literature, philosophy and fiction, literary theory.
Taught previously at:
Rutgers University.
Awards, honours, 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).
Building ID:
103