David Hensley

 David Hensley
Contact Information
Phone: 
514-398-4400 Ext. 00794
Email address: 
david.hensley [at] mcgill.ca
Address: 

Arts 342
McCall MacBain Arts Building
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, QC H3A 0G5
Canada

Group: 
Faculty Members
Position: 
Associate Professor; Literature Honours Advisor and Honours and Joint Honours Program Chair
Stream: 
Literature
Specialization by geographical area: 
Great Britain
Europe
Specialization by time period: 
Early Modern
Restoration
18th-Century
Romantic
Area(s): 
Aesthetics
Book History
Fiction
History & Theory of the Novel
Philosophical Approaches
Poetry & Poetics
Areas of interest: 

18th-century literature; philosophy and fiction; literary theory; counter-Enlightenment religious ideology; theory of the novel in Samuel Richardson's fiction.

Degree(s): 

Ph.D. (Yale)
B.A., M.A. (Cambridge)
B.A. (Yale)

Selected publications: 

Articles

"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.

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 
  • H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching
  • SSHRC Research Grant
  • SSHRC Research Time Stipend
Taught previously at: 

Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ)

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