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Tony Brown

English 210C Lind Hall

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • eighteenth-century literature
  • romanticism
  • early American
  • colonial and postcolonial literature
  • literary theory
  • aesthetics
  • philosophy

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: English Literature, University of Chicago, 2005.

Publications

  • "The Time of Globalization: Rethinking Primitive Accumulation." Rethinking Marxism 21.4 (2009): 571-84.
  • "The Barrows of History." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 37 (Spring 2008): 39-63.
  • "Joseph Addison and the Pleasures of Sharawadgi." ELH 74 (Spring 2007): 171-93.
  • "Cultural Psychosis on the Frontier: The Work of the Darkness in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness." Studies in the Novel 32 (Spring 2000): 14-28.

Awards

  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Huntington Library, 2007-2008
  • College of Liberal Arts Research Fellowship Supplement, University of Minnesota, 2007 - 2008
  • Faculty Residential Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Minnesota, Fall 2006
  • Faculty Summer Research Fellowship/McKnight Summer Fellowship, University of Minnesota, Summer 2006
  • Blair Dissertation Fellowship Dept. of English, Universit of Chicago, 2004 - 2005
  • Century Fellowship, University of Chicago, Division of the Humanities, 1999 - 2004

Courses Taught

  • Thinking the Unthinkable
  • Literary Theory
  • The Animal
  • The Sublime in Literature and Theory
  • British Literatures II, 1800-present
  • Textual Analysis: Methods
  • The Theory of the Novel
  • The Exotic, the Savage, and the Primitive in the Eighteenth-century Novel
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