Alysia Garrison
Assistant Professor
Appointments
Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing
Area of Expertise
Eighteenth Century and Romanticism,
Restoration,
environmental humanities,
Atlantic studies,
theory and continental philosophy,
aesthetic and genre studies,
historicisms and the philosophy of history ,
Irish literature,
Afro-Caribbean literature
Biography
I specialize in the literature, culture, and history of the long eighteenth century, from Restoration to Romanticism. My current research and teaching focuses on the convergence of literary and environmental studies, Romantic poetry, the novel, historicism and the philosophy of history, theory and continental philosophy, aesthetic and genre studies, Irish Romanticism, and Atlantic studies.
Education
B.A. Macalester College
Ph.D. University of California, Davis
Taught Courses
Publications
"The Bird that Cuts the Airy Way: William Blake's Avian Modernity," in Animal Modernities. Ed. Daniel Harkett and Katie Hornstein. Leuven: Leuven University Press, forthcoming 2025.
"'Faintly Struggling Things': Trauma, Testimony, and Inscrutable Life in Beckett's The Unnamable." Samuel Beckett: History, Memory, Archive. Ed. Séan Kennedy and Katherine Weiss. New York: Palgrave, 2009. 89-111.
"'Disdaining Bounds of Place and Time,' Staining Language with Furze and Burvine: John Clare's Nomadic Poetics." Blackwell Literature Compass 3.3 (2006): 376-387.
"Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel," Agamben's Philosophical Lineage. Ed. Adam Kotsko and Carlo Salzani. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017. 138-145.
"The Genuine Memoirs of Miss Faulkner" and "The Modern Atalantis; or the Devil in an Air Balloon" in The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820. Ed. April London. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2025.
"Hegel," "Kojève," "History," "Common," and "Derrida," The Agamben Dictionary. Ed. Alex Murray and Jessica Whyte. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
"James Williams," The Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Franklin W. Knight. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Selected Works & Activities
Reviews & Public Humanities
<p><a href="https://muse-jhu-edu.dartmouth.idm.oclc.org/pub/8/article/859232/pdf">r… of <em>A World of Disorderly Notions: Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism</em>,<em> </em>by Aaron R. Hanlon. <em>American Literary History </em>34, no. 2 (Summer 2022): 651-654. </a></p>
<p><a href="http://fortune.com/2017/11/06/guy-fawkes-bonfire-night-abuse-of-power/"… Guy Fawkes Night Can Teach Us About the Abuse of Power." <em>Fortune</em>. November 6, 2017.</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2016/05/04/politics-literature-2016-ele…;“What Frankenstein Can Tell Us About Climate Change.” WBUR, Boston NPR’s <em>Cognoscenti.</em> May 4, 2016. </a></p>
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