Laura Quinney
Professor of English
PhD, Cornell University
Research Interests
Romanticism, 18th-Century, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis.
Selected Publications
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"New Ghosts." Borderland Books, 2016
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"William Blake on Self and Soul." Harvard University Press, 2009
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"The Poetics of Disappointment." Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999.
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"Literary Power and the Criteria of Truth." Gainesville: University Press of Florida 1995.
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Articles in European Romantic Review, ELH, Philosophy and Literature, and reviews in the London Review of Books.
Awards
Newhouse Fellowship at Wellesley College 2009-10
Selected Courses Taught
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Romanticism I: Blake, Wordsworth, & Coleridge (ENG 125a)
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Romanticism II: Byron, Shelley, and Keats (ENG 125b)
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Hume, Johnson, and Rousseau (ENG 104a)
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Theories of the Self (ENG 111a)
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Contemporary Poetry (ENG 247b)