Department of English

Laura Quinney

Professor of English
PhD, Cornell University

Research Interests

Romanticism, 18th century, philosophy, psychoanalysis.

Selected Publications

• "New Ghosts." Borderland Books, 2016
• "William Blake on Self and Soul." Harvard University Press, 2009
• "The Poetics of Disappointment." Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999.
• "Literary Power and the Criteria of Truth." Gainesville: University Press of Florida 1995.
• 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

• Romanticism I: Blake, Wordsworth, & Coleridge (ENG 125a)
• Romanticism II: Byron, Shelley, and Keats (ENG 125b)
• Hume, Johnson, and Rousseau (ENG 104a)
• Theories of the Self (ENG 111a)
• Contemporary Poetry (ENG 247b)