Office: Keezell 207
Phone: 540-568-6103
Email: castelkm@jmu.edu
Office Hours:Spring 2008 TT 11-12:30, Wed 1-3

Courses
Fall 2008 Courses
ENG 426/509—Contemporary Critical Practices
ENG 327—Gothic Literature
GENG 236—Survey of British Lit II

Specialties

British Romantic literature, political and moral philosophy, ecocriticism, literature and the environment, critical theory

Education

Ph.D.  Duke University, Department of English, 2006
Dissertation: “Rage for Order: British Conservatism and Romantic Revolutionary Aesthetics” 
          
M.A.  Bucknell University, Department of English, 2001
 Thesis: "Mourning and Melancholy in Poetic Representations of 20th Century Trauma"

B.A. summa cum laude, English literature, Lebanon Valley College of Pennsylvania, May 1999

Fellowships, Grants, and Awards

Faculty Summer Research Grant, College of Arts and Letters, James Madison University, 2008.

International Development Grant, Office of International Programs, James Madison University, 2007

Katherine A. Stern Dissertation Fellowship, Duke University Graduate School, 2005-6

Arts and Sciences Summer Research Fellow, Duke University Graduate School, 2004

Kenan Institute for Ethics Graduate Colloquium Award, Duke University, 2003-2004             

Lore Metzger Prize for the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper, International Conference on Romanticism, October 2002

Graduate Fellowship, English, Duke University Graduate School, 2001-2006

Publications

“Feminism to Ecofeminism: The Legacy of Gilbert and Gubar’s Activist Readings of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and The Last Man.” The Madwoman in the Attic after Thirty Years.  Ed. Annette Federico (in progress, forthcoming).

“Burke’s ‘Revolutionary Book’: Conservative Politics and Revolutionary Aesthetics in the Reflections.” Romanticism on the Net. 45, February 2007.

‘The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom’: Alternative Economies of Excess in Blake’s Continental Prophecies.” Papers on Language and Literature. 42.1, February 2006.

“T.S. Eliot’s Ash-Wednesday.”  Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century.  Chris Haralson, Editor. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001.

 “Anthony Hecht.”  Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century. Ibid.

 “Anne Waldman.”  Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century.  Ibid.

Scholarly Presentations

“Preservation and Pessimism in John Clare.”  Special Session: John Clare Society panel (moderator and presenter). Modern Language Association. San Francisco, December 27-30, 2008. (scheduled)

“‘When wolves and tygers howl for prey’:  Ontology, Ecology, and Dwelling in Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience.” Special Session: “The Burdens of Beasts: Working Animals in Romantic Poetry.” International Conference on Romanticism, Oakland University, Michigan, October 16-19, 2008.  (scheduled)

“Pessimism and Romantic Ecology; Or, Fearing the Enlightenment Garden.” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Delaware Valley College, June 27-29, 2008.

“‘Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead’: Revolution, Religion, and Excess in Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and America.”  Invited talk at the William Blake Conference, Bard College, April 12, 2008. 

“Ecofeminist Prophecy in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and The Last Man.”  British Women Writers Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, March 27-30, 2008.  (Moderator: “Rewriting Women’s Spiritual Practice”)
 
“Prophetic Politics and Re-Visionary History in Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound.” Joint conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism and the British Association for Romantic Studies, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, July 26-29, 2007.

“Green Romanticism: Political Origins and Activism.” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Wofford College, South Carolina, June 12-16, 2007. 

“Deep Ecology, Sacrifice, and the Problem of Predation in Blake’s “The Lamb” and “The Tyger.” Northeast Modern Language Association, Baltimore, Maryland, March 1-4, 2007.
“‘Is this mine own countrée?’: Radical Conservatism in the Lyrical Ballads.”  International Conference on Romanticism, Arizona State University, Tempe, November 9-12, 2006.

“Conservative Agrarian Romanticism: Environmental Conservation from Edmund Burke to Wendell Berry.”  International Conference on Romanticism, Colorado College, October 13-16, 2005.

“‘Not all our songs, O friend, will make death clear or make life durable’: The Victorian Elegy in Crisis after Darwin.” Victorians Institute, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, April 1-2, 2005.

“Rage for Order: Reflections on the Revolution in France or Edmund Burke’s Anti-Theory of Conservatism.”  North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, University of Colorado, Boulder, September 9-12, 2004.

“Creative Response and Ethical Responsibility in Keats’s Narrative Poems from 1820: Hyperion, Isabella, Lamia, and The Eve of St. Agnes.” International Conference on Romanticism, Florida State University, October 10-13, 2002.

“‘A heap of broken images’: Shattered Promises of Spiritual Transcendence in The Waste Land.” Pennsylvania College English Association, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona, March 17-18, 2001.

“The Conflation of Absence and Loss in H.D.’s unpublished novel The Sword Went Out to Sea.”  Seminar participant: “Coherence and Incoherence in Modernist Literature.”  New Modernisms II, Modernist Studies Association Conference, University of Pennsylvania, October 12-15, 2000.

“Modernism, Nihilism, and Uncertainty in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Invited talk for the Humanistic Scholars Program, Bucknell University, October 11, 2000. 

“Aesthetic Unity in the Religious Failure of The Waste Land.” T.S. Eliot Society Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, September 22-24, 2000.

“Fractured Text and Imperialist Literature: A Comparative Study of Heart of Darkness and Kim.” Culture and Vision Conference, Dusquesne University, Pittsburgh, November 5-6, 1999.

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