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Kristin Girten

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Dr. Kristin Marie Girten

  • English, Associate Professor
email:
kgirten@unomaha.edu
office:
ASH  189F
department phone:
402.554.2635
fax:
402.554.2009

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General Information

Research Interests

Restoration, eighteenth-century, and Romantic British literature and culture; the history of science; the history of aesthetics; women's history; critical theory; pedagogy; visual studies

Education

Ph D, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, English, 2006

MA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, English, 1999

BA, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, English, 1995

Scholarship/Research/Creative Activity

Selected Publications

Girten, Kristin, Hanlon, Aaron. British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830, Bucknell UP.

Girten, Kristin. 2016. "'Sublime Luxuries'" of the Gothic Edifice: Immersive Aesthetics and Kantian Freedom in the Novels of Ann Radcliffe", Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 28, 4, 713-38.

Girten, Kristin. 2013. "Mingling with Matter: Tactile Microscopy and the Philosophic Mind in Brobdingnag and Beyond", The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.

Girten, Kristin. 2013. "Charlotte Smith's Tactile Poetics", The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 54, 2, 215-230.

Girten, Kristin. 2009. "Unsexed Souls: Natural Philosophy as Transformation in Eliza Haywood's Female Spectator", Eighteenth-Century Studies, 43, 1, 55-74.

Service

Administrative Assignments

Other, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research and Creative Activity, 01/01/2021