Associate Professor of English and Director, Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Novels, narrative, plot, time. Also graphic novels, Star Wars, music, and The Simpsons.
Current Affiliates
Associate Professor of French and Director, Center for Renaissance Studies
Early Modern literature and culture;
Provost's Professor of Germanic and Cognitive Studies and sometimes Acting Director of the Center
Empathy, aesthetics, literature and cognitive studies. Goethezeit. Bicycling and natural history.
graduate student
Eighteenth-century French empire/nation and natural history; also, hats.
Women writers and media networks, 1780s-1830s. Also cats and Star Wars.
Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature
Erudite polyglot; one-time Chicago cab driver.
Sally M. Reahard Professor of History and Research Fellow, Kinsey Institute
British-born feminist, writer, historian; words in the Guardian, TLS, LARB, and BBC History Magazine.
PhD candidate
(B.A. History, Appalachian State University) Historian of invisible labor, archives, administration. Friend to pens, notebooks, and cats.
Professor of History
European intellectual and cultural history, 1550-1750; former editor of the American Historical Review; now studying resentment.
Distinguished Professor of History; past Director of the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2013-2022)
Historian of money, revolutions, restaurants. Words in The Atlantic, TLS, Washington Post, and LARB. Two time winner of the Gottschalk Prize. Guggenheim Fellow.
Associate Professor, Germanic Studies and Comparative Literatures
European literature and life sciences; immunity; sovereignty; insult.
Friends of the Center
Professor of English and Vice-Dean for Graduate Education, Johns Hopkins University
Director of the Center, 2011-2013. Romanticism, war, affect studies, and the Sensorium of Reading.
Professor of English, Rutgers University
Workshop participant; Kenshur Prize winner and repeat committee member.
Associate Professor of English, Vanderbilt University
Workshop stalwart (The Self, 18C Geographies, Exemplarity, Hospitality); repeat member of the Kenshur Prize Committee.
Professor, School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph
Workshop repeat participant (Amity/Enmity, Play, Privilege & Protocol). Very good sport.
Professor of English, Purdue University
Neighbor. Workshop regular. Knows about periodicals, women writers, pirates, dragons, and much more.
President, The Academic College of Tel Aviv–Yaffo, Israel and Professor of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Founding Director of the Center. Cultural historian. Enthusiast.