Julia M. Wright Canada Research Chair in European Studies / Associate Professor of English Acting Co-Director, Centre for European Studies Department of English Dalhousie University 6135 University Ave. Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4P9  alternative e-mail address: juliamwrightdal [at] gmail.com

Books | Essays | Conference Papers | Further Information from CV

Books etc.

Monographs:

• Ireland, India, and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature.  Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. Cambridge:  Cambridge UP, 2007; paperback, 2009.  (Original title:  "Insensible Empire: Representing India, Ireland, and National Feeling in Nineteenth-Century Literature")
• Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation.  Athens, OH:  Ohio UP, 2004.  Winner of the 2002 Northeast Modern Language Association / Ohio University Press Book Award, and excerpted in Blake's Poetry and Designs (Norton, 2nd ed.). 

Editions:

• (ed.) The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys: A National Tale (1827), by Lady Morgan.  In progress, under contract with Broadview Press.
• (ed.) Irish Literature 1750-1900:  An Anthology.  Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, January 2008.
• (ed. & intro.) The Sons of Erin (1812), by Alicia Lefanu.  British Women Playwrights Around 1800 (2004).  Gen. ed. Michael Eberle-Sinatra and Thomas Crochunis. 
• (ed.) The Missionary:  An Indian Tale (1811), by Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan).  Includes an introduction and appendices.  Peterborough:  Broadview Press, 2002. 

Co-edited & Edited Volumes:

• (co-ed. with Joel Faflak) A Handbook to Romanticism Studies.  Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
• (co-ed. with Kevin Hutchings) Transatlantic Literary Exchanges, 1790-1870: Gender, Race, and Nation. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011.
• (ed.) Companion to Irish Literature. 2 vols. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
• (co-ed. with Elizabeth Sauer) Reading the Nation in English Literature:  A Critical Reader.  New York: Routledge, 2009.
• (co-ed. with Jason Haslam) Captivating Subjects:  Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century.   Toronto:  U of Toronto P, 2005.
• (co-ed. with Joel Faflak) Nervous Reactions:  Victorian Recollections of Romanticism.  Albany, NY:  SUNY P, 2004. 
• (co-ed. with Tilottama Rajan)  Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre:  Re-forming Literature, 1789-1837.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998; paperback, 2006.

Special Journal Issues:

• (co-ed. with Lauren Goodlad) Victorian Internationalisms.  Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net 48 (November 2007).
• (ed.)  Reconsidering the Nineteenth Century.  Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 30.1 (Spring 2004).   For a list of contents, click here.
• (co-ed. with Angela Esterhammer) 1798 and Its Implications.  European Romantic Review 10.2 (Spring 1999).  For a list of contents, click here.

Essays:

• "The Gothic Frontier of Modernity: The 'Invisible Hand' of State-Formation in Deadwood." The Last Western:  Deadwood and the End of American Empire.  Ed. Jennifer Greiman and Paul Stasi.  New York: Continuum, forthcoming.
•  "Nation and Empire." A Handbook to Romanticism Studies. Ed. Joel Faflak and Julia M. Wright. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
• "Outlaws or Immigrants?  Atlantic Exile and the Stateless Citizen in Irish Romanticism."  Wordsworth Circle (Winter 2009): 36-44.
• "Pathologizing Procrastination; Or, the Romanticization of Work."  English Studies in Canada 34.2-3 (June/September 2008).
• "'Wel gelun a gud?': Thomas Sheridan's Brave Irishman and the Failure of English."  Irish Studies Review 16.4 (November 2008): 445-60.
• "Latchkey Hero: Class, Masculinity, and the Gothic in Eric Kripke's Supernatural." Genders 47 (Spring 2008). [on Supernatural - The Complete First Season and Supernatural - The Complete Second Season]
• "Introduction: Anna Liddiard." Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period. Ed. Stephen C. Behrendt. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2008.
• 'The Policy of Geography': Cavour's Considerations, European Geopolitics, and Ireland in the 1840s." Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net 48 (November 2007).
• "'All the Fire-Side Circle': Irish Women Writers and the Sheridan-Lefanu Coterie."  Forum.  Keats-Shelley Journal 55 (2006): 63-72.
• "Literature and Nationalism." Vol. 6 of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Ed. M. A. R. Habib. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, forthcoming.
• "Baillie, Blake, and the Enlightenment Subject in Romantic Drama." Women Reading William Blake: "Opposition is True Friendship." Ed. Helen P. Bruder. New York: Macmillan/Palgrave, 2006. 270-78.
• "'National Feeling' and the Colonial Prison: Teeling's Personal Narrative." Captivating Subjects: Writing Confinement, Citizenship and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. Jason Haslam and Julia M. Wright. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2005. 175-98.
• "National Erotics and Political Theory in Morgan's The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys."  European Romantic Review 15 (2004): 229-41.
• "The Simulation of Academic Crisis; Or, Chicken Little Rules the Roost." Reader's Forum: What's Left of English Studies? English Studies in Canada 29 (2003): 85-96.
• "'Growing-Pains': Representing the Romantic in Gaskell's Wives and Daughters." Nervous Reactions: Victorian Recollections of Romanticism. Ed. Joel Faflak and Julia M. Wright. Albany, NY: SUNY P, 2004. 163-85.
• "'The Same Dull Round Over Again': Colonial History in Moore's Memoirs of Captain Rock." European Romantic Review 14 (2003): 243-53.
• "'Sons of Song':   Irish Literature in the Age of Nationalism."  Romantic Poetry.   Ed. Angela Esterhammer.  Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages Series. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002. 333-53.
• "Lewis's 'Anaconda': Gothic Homonyms and Sympathetic Distinctions." Gothic Studies 3 (2001): 262-78.
• "Devouring the Disinherited: Familial Cannibalism in Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer." Eating Their Words: Cannibalism and the Boundaries of Cultural Identity. Ed. Kristen Guest. Albany, NY:  SUNY P, 2001.  79-105. 
• "'Little England':  Anxieties of Space in Mary Shelley's The Last Man."  Mary Shelley's Fictions:  From Frankenstein to Falkner.  Ed. Michael Eberle-Sinatra. New York:  St. Martin's/Macmillan P, 2000. 129-49.
• "The Medium, the Message, and the Line in Blake's Laocoon."  Mosaic 33 (2000): 101-24. [an expanded and revised version is in Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation.]
• "Courting Public Opinion:  Handling Informers in the 1790s." Éire-Ireland 33 (1997-1998): 144-69.
• "'The Nation Begins to Form': Competing Nationalisms in Morgan's The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys." ELH 66 (1999): 939-63.
• "'Greek & Latin Slaves of the Sword': Rejecting the Imperial Nation in Blake's Milton." Milton and the Imperial Vision. Ed. Elizabeth Sauer and Balachandra Rajan.  Afterword by Homi Bhabha. Pittsburgh:   Duquesne UP, 1999.  255-72.
• "'The Order of Time': Nationalism and Literary Anthologies, 1774-1831." Papers on Language and Literature 33 (1997): 339-65.
• "'I Am Ill Fitted': Conflicts of Genre in Eliza Fenwick's Secresy." Romanticism, History, and the  Possibilities of Genre: Re-forming Literature, 1789-1837. Ed. Tilottama Rajan and Julia M. Wright. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998. 149-75.
• "'And None Shall Gather the Leaves': Unbinding the Voice in Blake's America and Europe."  European Romantic Review 7 (1996): 61-84.
• "'Which Is to Be Master': Classifying the Language of Alice's 'Antipathies.'" English Studies in Canada 20 (1994): 301-17.
• "Comprehensive Examinations in English Literature: Institutional Initiation Rites and the (De)canonization of the Academy." Critical Mass 4 (1994): 3-18.
• "Peacock's Early Parody of Thomas Moore in Nightmare Abbey." English Language Notes 30 (1993): 31-38.
• "'Empire Is No More': Odin and Orc in America." Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly 26 (1992): 26-29.
• "'A Small Violence to History': Reflecting on the Past in Fielding's Drama Eurydice Hissed." CLIO 23 (1993):  63-79.
• "'The Inevitable Inciter of Crime': Illicit Genders and Sherlock(ed) Holmes." (Sa)fire/works: More Works in Progress by Students of Feminism(s). Ed. Trish Dick and L. Michelle Amlin. London, Ontario: Centre for Women's Studies and Feminist Research (U of Western Ontario), 1994.  110-120.
• "'Diogenes in Disguise': Inversion and Identity in The Confidence-Man." Canadian Review of American Studies 23 (1992): 73-91.

Other Publications:

• "Thomas Moore." The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature. Ed. Frederick Burwick, Nancy Moore Goslee, and Diane Long Hoeveler. 3 vols. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
• "National Literature."  Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory, rev. ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, forthcoming (Fall 2012).
• (with Kieran Bonner, Diana Brydon, and Marjorie Stone) "Building Research Networks:  A Panel."  Open Letter:  A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory.  12th series.  9 (2006): 83-103.
• Reviews in such journals as Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Irish Studies Review, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Nineteenth-Century Feminisms, Romanticism on the Net, and Studies in Romanticism.

• "Defining Irish Romanticism: Genre, Nationalism, and Literary History." Annual Meeting of the International Conference on Romanticism. Montreal, 3-6 November 2011.
• "(Dis)locations of Gender: Representing National Crisis in Irish Romanticism." International meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies. Madison, WI, 30 March - 2 April 2011.
• "Outlaws or Immigrants? Atlantic Exile and the Stateless Citizen in Irish Romanticism."  Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, UK, 4-9 August 2008.

•  "Transforming the National Tale: Le Fanu's Early Contributions to the Dublin University Magazine." Annual Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Assoc.  Montreal, November 2010.
• "Early and Late Irish Romanticism:  Thomas Moore and D. F. MacCarthy."  Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Vancouver, BC: August 2010.
• "'Tho' Glory Be Gone': Moore and the Problem of Colonial Masculinity."  Annual ACCUTE conference. Montreal, 28-31 May 2010.
• "Out of Time: Healing Histories in Irish Romanticism."  ACIS Panel: Irish Temporalities.  MLA Convention, Philadelphia PA, 27-30 December 2009.
• "'If a Man Fails at Home': Historicizing Gender in the Second Season of Millennium." Canadian Assoc. For American Studies Annual Conference.  University of Western Ontario, 13-15 November 2009.
•  (invited symposium paper).  "Stateless Citizens: The Problem of Masculinity in Moore and Morgan."   United Islands 2.  Queen’s University Belfast, August 2009. 
• "Transforming the National Tale:  LeFanu's Early Contributions to the Dublin University Magazine." Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association.  Lancaster, UK, 21-24 July 2009.
• "Blue-Collar Masculinity in Eric Kripke's Supernatural." Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. Buffalo, 10-13 April 2008.
• "'Her Face to the West': The United Irishmen and Transatlantic Exile." Annual Conference of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Portland OR, 27-30 March 2008.
• "'In this vast vault, by Nature made': Elegaic Landscape Before the Famine." "Green Ireland." American Conference for Irish Studies session. Chicago, MLA Convention, December 2007.
• "Hunting the Gothic: Eric Kripke's Supernatural and the Regression of Simulacra." Drawing the Lines. Annual Conf. of the Canadian Association for American Studies. Montreal, 8-11 November 2007.
• "'This Vale of Tears': Drennan's 'Glendalloch' and Gothic Landscape." "Emancipation, Liberation, Freedom." Joint Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism and the British Association for Romantic Studies. Bristol, UK, 26-29 July 2007.
• "European Geopolitics in the 1840s: Cavour's Considerations and MacCarthy's 'Afghanistan'." Special session on Internationalisms and Politics. Annual conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association. Purdue University, Indiana, 31 August-3 September 2006.
• "Glorvina and the Maids of Killarney: Variations on National Allegory." "Wild Irish Girls: A bicentenary conference to mark the publication of Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl and Maria Edgeworth's Leonora." University of Southampton, England, 20-21 July 2006.
• "Diagnosing 'National Character': Sheridan's Captain O'Blunder and the Edgeworths' Essay on Irish Bulls." ACCUTE conference. York University, 27-30 May 2006.

Further Selected Information from CV:

Degrees:

HBA (1988); MA (1989); PhD (1994), University of Western Ontario

Recent External Awards and Research Grants:

• Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme, for Captivating Subjects (co-ed. with Jason Haslam) (2004)
• Northeast MLA Book Prize for Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation (2002)
• SSHRC Standard Research Grants (1997-2000; 2002-05; 2006-09; 2009-12)
• Canada Foundation for Innovation Grant (2002-05; co-applicant, 2007)
• Canada Research Chairs (2002-05; 2005-10; 2010-12)
• John Charles Polanyi Prize (1997)

Selected Professional Service:

• Editorial Committee, European Studies: History, Society, and Culture (2011- )
• Editorial Board, Nineteenth-Century Studies (2011- )
• Co-Organizer, "Performing Europe / European Performances."  Annual European Studies Colloquium. Dalhousie Centre for European Studies, 27-28 April 2012
• Executive Committe, MLA Discussion Group for Anglo-Irish Literature (2010-15)
•  Organizer. "European Mediations:  Transnational and Supranational Formations." Annual European Studies Colloquium. Dalhousie Centre for European Studies, 9 April 2011.
• Editorial Board, Genders (2008- )
• Editorial Board, Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (2008- )
• College of Reviewers, Canada Research Chairs Program (2002- )
• Conference Committee.  Romanticism & History. 10th annual conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. University of Western Ontario. London, Canada, 22-25 August 2002. 
• Organizer of special sessions at the annual meetings of CAIS (joint with IGA, 2004), NASSR (1996, 2005), NEMLA (1999, 2003), and of joint NASSR/ACCUTE sessions (1999); co-organizer of special sessions at ACCUTE (2008), the annual MLA Convention (1997, 2003) and of joint NASSR/NAVSA/ACCUTE sessions (2006). 
• Conference Committee.  1798 and Its Implications. First joint conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism and the British Association for Romantic Studies.  St. Mary's University College.  Strawberry Hill, England, 6-10 July 1998.

Selected Recent University Service:

• Graduate Committee (2011- )
• Acting Co-Director, Centre for European Studies (2011-
• Ad Hoc Committee to Revise Scholarly Integrity Policy (2010- ; Chair, 2011- )
• Research Development Committee (2006-07, 2008-10)
• Undergraduate Committee (2007-2010)

This page was last updated on 15 March 2012, by Julia M. Wright.