Associate Professor (Ph.D. Princeton)

Enlightenment and Romantic Literature

Contact Information

On leave Fall, 2007 and Winter, 2008

Office: Humanities 114C
Phone: 518.388.8029
e-mail: kuhnb@union.edu

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Enlightenment and Romantic Literature; Autobiography; Literature and Science; Literature, Medicine, and Ethics; Literature and Nature; Travel Writing; Philosophical Fiction; Criticism

PUBLICATIONS

Kuhn has published articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and culture. His latest article, "'A Chain of Marvels': Botany and Autobiography in Rousseau," appears in European Romantic Review 17.1 (2006). He is currently writing an article on De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater for an edited book on English Romantic Autobiography. Kuhn's own book Autobiography and Natural Science: Rousseau, Goethe, Thoreau is forthcoming.