Andrew Burkett
Assistant Professor (Ph.D. Duke)
British Romantic Literature
Contact Information:
Office: Room 204, 36 Union Street
Phone: 518.388.6119
E-mail: burketta@union.edu
TEACHING AND INTERESTS
British Romantic Poetry and Prose; Victorian Poetry and the Novel; Literature and Science; Science and Technology Studies; Cinema and Media Studies.
PUBLICATIONS
Dr. Burkett's research interests center on the intersections among literature, science, and technology in the British Romantic era. His first monograph project examines issues of causality in nineteenth-century aesthetics and science, and his new book project is an investigation of the relationship between Romantic imaginative literature and the world of new media dating from the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. He has published articles on topics ranging from the discourse of Malthusianism and the Victorian verse novel to early silent film and aesthetic theory.
Burkett is also currently at work on two digital humanities research projects. Collaborating with four Union undergraduates, he has been funded through an external research grant to envision, design, and launch a public digital humanities website, entitled "The Eighteenth-Century Common" (http://www.18thcenturycommon.com/). This website will serve as a resource for both scholars and enthusiasts of the science, technology, art, and literature of the long-eighteenth century. In a separate digital humanities research project funded by the National Science Foundation, he will begin collaborating in Summer 2012 with Computer Science faculty and two undergraduate students at Union to produce a software tool that will allow scholars and students to experience the art and poetry of William Blake through non-linear reading methods.
"Mediating Monstrosity: Media, Information, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein." Studies in Romanticism. (Forthcoming)
"Wordsworthian Chance." Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net.; Issue 54; May, 2009. To read this article, click here.
"Victorian Tocophobia:Aurora Leigh and Nineteenth-Century Fears of Childbirth and Procreation. Nineteenth Century Studies. Vol. 21 (2007): 33-45.
"The Image Beyond the Image: G. W. Pabst's Pandora's Box (1929) and the Aesthetics of the Cinematic Image-Object." Quarterly Review of Film and Video. Vol. 24, No. 3 (May, 2007): 233-247.
AWARDS
Stephen Horne Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2006-2007. Duke University