Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1985
Fields/affiliations
Lit and Mind
Romantic Lit
Theory of Gender and Sexuality
Research interests
British Romanticism
Feminist, Race, and Queen Theories
Early nineteenth century British theater
The social revolutions of 1790s and 1960s
JULIE CARLSON
PROFESsOR
jcarlson@english.ucsb.edu
Julie Carlson is a Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara and co-editor of Brainstorm Books (punctum books). She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1985, and her central interests include: British Romanticism; early nineteenth-century British theater; the Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley family; theories of race and sexuality; mind studies. She is the author of England's First Family of Writers: Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Mary Shelley (Johns Hopkins, 2007), In the Theatre of Romanticism: Coleridge, Nationalism, Women (Cambridge UP, 1994), guest editor of Domestic/Tragedy (South Atlantic Quarterly, 1997), co-editor (with Elisabeth Weber) of Speaking About Torture (Fordham, 2012) and various articles on romantic drama and theater, cultural poetics, and the politics of friendship. Currently she is writing a book on Friendship and Creativity: A Radical Legacy of British Romantic-Era Writing.
Contact information
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Mailing Address: English Department, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170