Dr. Kristin Marie Girten
- English, Professor
General Information
Research Interests
Restoration, eighteenth-century, and Romantic British literature and culture; the history of science; environmental humanities; 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. 2024. Sensitive Witnesses: Feminist Materialism in the British Enlightenment, Stanford UP.
Girten, Kristin, Hanlon, Aaron. 2022. British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830, Bucknell UP.
Girten, Kristin. 2022. “Queering the Modest Witness in the Chthulucene: VanderMeer’s Borne (a New Weird Case Study)”, Routledge, 159-170.
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, 497-520.
Externally Funded Research
Tell All the Truth Project, Andew W. Mellon Foundation, Associations/Foundations, 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2025
Service
Administrative Assignments
Other, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research and Creative Activity, 01/01/2021