Faculty
Andrew ElfenbeinProfessorDepartment of English |
Special Interests
- British literature, 1700-1900
- Queer theory
- Gender studies
- Materialist criticism
- Archival study
- Influence study
- Prosody
Honors & Awards
- Howard Foundation Fellowship, 2007
- American Philosophical Society Fellowship, 2006
- Graduate School Grant-in-Aid of Research, Fall 2004-
- Graduate School Summer Faculty Fellowship, Summer 2003
- McKnight Summer Research Support, Summer 2003
- Scholar of the College, 2000-2003
- Ruth Christie Distinguished Teacher Award, 2000-2002
- Bush Sabbatical Grant, 1998-99
- Graduate School Grant-in-Aid of Research, 1992, 1998
- Byron and the Victorians awarded Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1995
- McKnight Land-Grant Fellowship, 1993-95
- Graduate School Summer Faculty Fellowship, 1993
- McKnight Summer Research Fellowship, 1993
- Yale Doctoral Examinations, Passed with Distinction, 1988
- Noah Webster Prize for Outstanding Essay on the History of the English Language, 1988
- Phi Beta Kappa, 1986
Background
- Education
- Yale University, B.A. (summa cum laude, with distinction), M.Phil., Ph.D.
- Academic Appointments
- University of Minnesota, Professor of English 2000-
- University of Minnesota, Associate Professor of English 1996-2000
- University of Minnesota, Assistant Professor of English, 1991-96
Publications
- Books
- Byron
and the Victorians. Nineteenth-Century Literature
and Culture Series, 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1995. 285 pp. Refereed. Second Printing, 1996. Third Printing,
1998.
- Romantic Genius: The Prehistry of a Homosexual Role. Between-Men, Between-Women Series. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1999. 262 pp. Refereed.
- Editor: Special Issue
Byron and Disability: special issue of European Romantic Review. Contains essays by me, Christine Kenyon Jones (King's College, London), Stuart Peterfreund (Northeastern University), Marjean Purinton (Texas Tech University), and Rosemarie Garland Thomson (Howard University). 12 (2001): 247-327.
- Byron
and the Victorians. Nineteenth-Century Literature
and Culture Series, 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1995. 285 pp. Refereed. Second Printing, 1996. Third Printing,
1998.
- Chapters in Books
- "The Management of Desire in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure," in Launching "Fanny Hill": Essays on the Novel and Its Influences. Eds. Patsy Fowler and Alan Jackson. New York: AMS, 2003. 27-48. Invited.
- "Wollstonecraft, Sexuality, and Genius." Cambridge Companion to Wollstonecraft. Ed. Claudia L. Johnson. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002), 228-45.
- "Paranoid Poetics: Byron, Schreber, Freud." Romanticism on the Net 23 (August 2001); http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/23elfenbein.html; in special issue on Romanticism and Sexuality, ed. Richard Sha; invited and refereed.
- "Editor's Intorduction" and "Byron and the Fantasy of Compensation," European Romantic Review 12 (2001): 247-48, 267-83; in special issue I edited on Byron and Disability; refereed.
- "Silver-Fork Byron and the Image of Regency England." Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth - and Twentieth - Century Culture. Ed. Frances Wilson (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999), 77-92. Chapter invited; book refereed.
- "The Unkindness of Strangers: Violence and Homosexual Subtexts
in the Plays of Israel Horovitz." Co-authored with John Watkins. Israel
Horovitz: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Leslie
Kane. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994. 91-101. Chapter
invited; book refereed.
- Recent Articles
- "Recent Work in the Nineteenth Century," omnibus review of all work in nineteenth century, for Studies in Englsih Literature (SEL); invited.
- "Lesbian Aestheticism on the Eighteenth-Century Stage," Eighteenth-Century Life 25 (2001): 1-16. Refereed.
- "Whitman, Democracy, and the English Clerisy," Nineteench-Century Literature 56 (2001): 76-104. Refereed.
- "Stricken Deer: Secrecy, Homophobia, and the Rise of the Suburban Man." Genders. 27 (1998).
- "Lesbanism and Romantic Genius: The Poetry of Anne Bannerman." ELH 63 (1996): 929-957. 37 pp. ms.
- "Managing the House in Dombey and Son: Dickens and the Uses of Analogy." Studies in Philology 92 (1995): 361-82.
- "The Sorrows of Carlyle: Carlyle, Byronism, and the Philosophic Critic." Victorian Literature and Culture 21 (1993): 147- 67.
- "Narrating Australia: Competing Heroisms in A Fringe of Leaves." Commonwealth Novel in English 6 (1993): 39-49.
- "Byron and the Work of Homosexual Performance in Early Victorian England." Modern Language Quarterly 54 (1993): 535-66.
- "Cowper, Blake, and the Figure of the Invader." The Friend: Comment on Romanticism 1 (1992): 10-19.
- "Cowper and the Anxieties of Femininity." Eighteenth-Century Life 13.3 (1989): 1-17.
Teaching
- Graduate seminars
- Studies in Special Topics: The Dark Side of the Enlightenment, EngL 8050, 1998, (cross-listed with CSCL)
- Proseminar in Romantic Literature, EngL 8115 , 1992, 1997
- Studies in the English Romantic Movement: Byron and Byronisms, EngL 8310, 1993
- The Age of Wollstonecraft, 1994
- Decadence, 1996 (cross-listed with CSCL)
- Combined graduate and undergraduate courses
- Nineteenth-Century Poetry, EngL 5133, 1995
- Courses for undergraduate majors
- Techniques of Literary Study, EngL 3008, 1996
- Survey of English Literature I: Medieval and Early Modern, EngL 3111, 1995 (with David Wallace)
- Survey of English Literature II: Restoration and Eighteenth Century, EngL 3112, 1998 (with David Haley)
- Survey of English Literature III: Nineteenth Century, EngL 3113, 1994, 1996 (with Michael Hancher); 1997 (with Gordon Hirsch)
- The Romantic Age, EngL 3118, 1993
- The Victorian Age, EngL 3119, 1991
- Honors Shakespeare, EngL 3241H, 1993, 1994, 1998
- Shakespeare, EngL 3242, 1993
- Honors Shakespeare, EngL 3242H, 1992
- Poetry, EngL 3651, 1993
- Honors Poetry, EngL 3651H, 1996
- Junior-Senior Seminar, EngL 3960
- Composition courses
- Writing About Literature, EngL 3011, 1998
Other Activities
- Associate Editor, Journal of British Studies, 2005 --
- Editorial Board, Genders