English Department Faculty

Timothy Spurgin
Associate professor and Bonnie Glidden Buchanan Professor of English Literature

Education
Carleton College, B.A.
University of Virginia, M.A., Ph.D.

Interests
The history of the novel
Literary theory
Cultural studies

Publications and other projects
The English Novel.  24-part lecture series on English fiction from the 1740s to the 1920s. Produced on CD and DVD by the Teaching Company.  Released summer 2006.

“My Students Love Derrida,” The Chronicle Review.  [Chronicle of Higher Education]5 November 2004:  B5.

“The Times Magazine and Academic Megastars,” the minnesota review n.s. 52-4 (2001):  225-38. 

“’It's Me Wot Has Done It!’:  Letters, Reviews, and Great Expectations,” Dickens Studies Annual 27 (1998):  187-209.

Recent conference papers and talks
“Memorable Birthdays,” Dickens Society of Madison, WI, 24 April 2005

“‘All I have is a voice’:  Poetry after 9/11,” MMLA conference, 6 November 2004.

“Vengeance in your heart, fish down your pants, or, Theory made me do it!”  MMLA conference, 7 November 2003.

“From Bertrand Russell to Jane Russell:  Excess and Decline in Narratives of Celebrity,” Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, UC-Berkeley, 28 March 2003.

Current projects
I’m working on a piece for Dickens Studies Annual, reviewing everything published on Dickens in 2006.