Director of Graduate Studies
Office:
Keezell 415
Phone: 540-568-3753
Email: castelkm@jmu.edu
Office Hours:
Courses:
Summer 2012
GEng 221: Literature/Culture/Ideas. May session (online)
Fall 2012
GEng 221: Literature/Culture/Ideas. Literature, Nature and Environment
Eng 327: Gothic Literature. The Female Gothic
Specialization:
Romantic Literature, Environmental Literatures, Moral and Political Philosophy,
Critical Theory
Education:
Ph.D., English, Duke University, 2006.
Dissertation: “Rage for Order: British
Conservatism and Romantic Revolutionary Aesthetics”
M.A., English, Bucknell University, 2001.
Thesis: "Mourning and Melancholy in
Poetic Representations of 20th Century Trauma"
B.A., summa cum laude, English, Lebanon Valley College of Pennsylvania, 1999
Publications:
“Romantic Conservatism and the Intergenerational Imagination in Edmund Burke,
William Wordsworth, and Wendell Berry.” SubStance. (forthcoming).
“Why linger at the yawning tomb so long?: The Ethics of Negative Capability in
Keats’s Isabella and Hyperion.” Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the
History of Ideas. 8.1 (January 2010): 23-38.
“Feminism to Ecofeminism: The Legacy of Gilbert and Gubar’s Readings of Mary
Shelley’s Frankenstein and The Last Man.” The Madwoman in the Attic After
Thirty Years. Ed. Annette Federico. University of Missouri Press, 2009. 76-93.
“Burke’s ‘Revolutionary Book’: Conservative Politics and Revolutionary Aesthetics in
the Reflections.” Romanticism on the Net. 45, Feb 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) 3-24.
“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. |
