Christian Thorne
Assistant Professor of English
English DepartmentE-mail: Cthorne@williams.edu
Phone: (413) 597-4712
EDUCATION:
BA, Wesleyan (1995); PhD, Duke (2001)
BA, Wesleyan (1995); PhD, Duke (2001)
COURSES TAUGHT:
Intro to Cultural Theory; Intro to Eighteenth Century British Literature; Milton; Rise of the Novel; Gothic Theory; The Novel and Globalization; A Political History of the Epic
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
“The
·“The Antinomy of Antinomies,” boundary 2 (forthcoming)
·“Providence in the Early Novel, or Accident if you Please,” MLQ 64.3
·“The Revolutionary Energy of the Outmoded,” October 104 (Spring 2003)
·“Thumbing Our Nose at the Public Sphere: Satire, the Market, and the Invention of Literature,” PMLA, May 2001.
PRIMARY FIELDS OF RESEARCH:
Critical theory; the long eighteenth century.
OTHER INTERESTS:
Milton; epics; the history of the novel (especially the historical and Third World novel); film; rock & roll.