富兰克林 & 马歇尔头标志

彼得Jaros Associate Professor of English

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教育

Ph.D. English, Northwestern University, 2009.
 
M.A. English, Northwestern University, 2002.
 
B.A. Psychology, magna cum laude, Yale University, 1998.

研究

Early and Antebellum American Literature and Culture, Transatlantic Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Critical Theory, Print Culture, Law and Literature

奖助金 & 奖

NEH Post-Doctoral Fellow, Library Company of Philadelphia (2013-14)
 
Consortium Summer 教师 Fellow, McNeil Center for Early American Studies (2011)
 
Honorable Mention, Richard Beale Davis Prize (for the best article published in Early American Literature) (2009-10)
 
Fellow, Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Foundation (2007-09)
 
Phi Beta Kappa (1998)

出版物

“The Faculties of Law: Robert Montgomery Bird's 谢泼德李 as Legal Fiction.” (即将出版).
 
“A Double Life: Personifying the Corporation from Dartmouth College 对爱伦坡.” 坡的研究 (即将出版).
 
“Good Names: Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa.” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 54.1 (2013).
 
“Personating Stephen Burroughs: The Apparitions of a Public Specter.” Early American Literature 44.3 (2009).
 
Translation (from French): Jean-Luc Nancy and Emmanuel Alloa, “The Real Outside Is ‘at the Heart’ of the Inside: An Interview with Jean-Luc Nancy.” 特应性 9 (2006). www.特应性.tk.

演讲

Selected Recent 演讲

“A Creature of Law in the Wilderness: Irving’s 阿斯托里亚.” C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. 教堂山分校. 3月15日.

“谢泼德李 and Supernatural Law.” Modern Language 协会. Marriott 芝加哥 Downtown. 芝加哥. 二零一四年一月十日.

“Facing 历史: Charles Brockden Brown, Physiognomics, and Temporality.” The Revolutionary Atlantic: Acts of Alienation and Sedition, 1780-1830 (Charles Brockden Brown Society Biennial Conference). Université 巴黎 IV—Sorbonne. 巴黎. 10月12日.

“Face Time: Charles Brockden Brown and the Temporalities of Physiognomics”; Panel Organizer: “The Temporal Turn in Early American Perspective.” Society of Early Americanists. 凯悦酒店. 萨凡纳. 2013年3月1日.

“Collective Action, Corporate Fiction, and The Confidence-Man.” Modern Language 协会. Sheraton Boston. Boston, 3 January 2013.

“Crises of Personhood: 谢泼德李 and the 1837-38 Pennsylvania Convention.” American Studies 协会. 波多黎各 Convention Center. San Juan, PR, 17 November 2012.

“The Antebellum Corporation in Literature and Law: A Chapter in the Prehistory of 联合公民.“富兰克林 & 马歇尔 校友 College 2012. Lancaster, PA, 1 June 2012. (Invited lecture.)

“How to Kill a Corporation: Corporate Mortality in Law and Verse”; Panel Organizer: “Corporate Fictions.” American Literature 协会. 凯悦酒店. 旧金山, 2012年5月26日.

“Equiano, the Author.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 温哥华, Canada, 17-20 March 2011.

“Lavater and Levinas on Traits that Withdraw.” Fading Figures/Figures of Fading Colloquium. Northwestern University. Evanston, IL, 14 May 2010.

“The Swiss Atlantic? Another Look at the ‘Atlantic World.’” Society of Early Americanists. Hamilton, Bermuda, 4-7 March 2009.

“The Character of the Citizen: Physiognomy and Republicanism in the Early American 公共领域.” Pennsylvania Historical 协会. Bethlehem, PA, 16 October 2008.

“‘Fairly exposed to public view’: Picturing Stephen Burroughs.” American Literature 协会. 凯悦酒店. 旧金山, 24 May 2008.

“Arresting Characters: Physiognomy and Interruption”; Panel Chair: “Shady Characters and Sketchy Science.” International Conference on Narrative. University of Texas at 奥斯丁. 奥斯丁, 2 May 2008.

Course Information

CNX 135: America from Outside

ENG 206: Studies in American Literature 1

ENG 207: Studies in American Literature 2

ENG 372: Reading Characters in American Literature

ENG 461: Making Persons in American Literature