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Kristin Girten, PhD

Kristin Girten


Education

PhD, English, Rutgers University, 2006
MA, English, University of Colorado, 1999
BA, English (magna cum laude), Indiana University, 1995

Publications

"'Sublime Luxuries' of the Gothic Edifice: Immersive Aesthetics and Kantian Freedom in the Novels of Ann Radcliffe." Eighteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 28 no. 4, 2016, pp. 713-738. Project MUSE, muse.jhu.edu/article/622351.

“Mingling with Matter: Tactile Microscopy and the Philosophic Mind in Brobdingnag and Beyond,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 54.4 (Winter 2013): 497-520.

 “Charlotte Smith’s Tactile Poetics,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 54.2 (Summer 2013): 215-230.

 “Unsexed Souls: Natural Philosophy as Transformation in Eliza Haywood’s Female Spectator,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 43.1 (Fall 2009): 55-74.

Research Areas

Restoration, Eighteenth-Century, and Romantic Literature and Culture; History and Philosophy of Science; Women’s Literary History; Aesthetic Theory; Feminist Theory; Visual Studies; Embodied Rhetoric and Pedagogy.

Teaching Areas
Eighteenth-Century Literature, Romanticism, Literature and Science, Visual Literatures (comic books and film), Women’s and Gender Studies in Literature, British Comedy, Early British Survey, Critical Theory.