Lily Gurton-Wachter
Faculty, Language & Thinking Program
Biography:
B.A., Bard College; Ph.D. Candidate, Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley. Has taught at theUniversity of California, Berkeley, Rutgers University, and with the
Prison University Project at San Quentin Prison. Currently writing a
dissertation about war-time attention and the aesthetics of alarm around 1800, which traces the intersections in Romantic literature between the poetics of attention and the politics of alarmism.
Recently published “'An Enemy, I suppose, that Nature has made':
Charlotte Smith and the natural enemy" in the European Romantic Review, and has presented papers on waiting and historical experience in the work of Walter Benjamin, and on Wordsworth's response to the militarization of attention in England in his poetry. Work in Comparative Literature (English, French, and German) includes
interests in the history of poetics, literature and politics, war,
comparative Romanticisms, historiography, ethics, and the lyric.
Contact:
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