David Collings

Professor of English

Fall 2008

  • Transfigurations of Song (ENG 013)
  • Natural Supernaturalism (ENG 238)
  • Advanced Independent Study and Honors in English (ENG 401)
Phone (207) 725-3737
Title Professor
Department ENGLISH
Work Location 206 Massachusetts Hall
E-Mail dcolling@bowdoin.edu
David Collings

Education:

Ph. D., University of California, Riverside, 1987

Teaching Areas:

English romanticism and British literature, 1780-1835; introduction to poetry; gay and lesbian studies; antirealist and/or uncanny literature.

Research Interests:

English romanticism; the Gothic; carnival, the crowd, and popular radicalism in England; queer theory; Lacanian cultural theory; disaster; the critique of economics.

Selected Publications:

Monstrous Society: Reciprocity, Discipline, and the Political Uncanny, c. 1780-1848.  Forthcoming from Bucknell University Press, 2009.

Wordsworthian Errancies CoverWordsworthian Errancies: The Poetics of Cultural Dismemberment. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

Queer Romanticisms: Past, Present, and Future.  Co-edited with Michael O'Rourke.  Special issue of Romanticism on the Net.  No 36-37, 2004.
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"The Romance of the Impossible: William Godwin in the Empty Place of Reason".
ELH: English Literary History 70 (2003): 847-874.
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"On the Modest Tone of Recent Work in Romantic Studies." College Literature 28 (2001): 207-214.
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Romantic Wars Cover"Bentham's Auto-Icon: Utilitarianism and the Evisceration of the Common Body."
Prose Studies 23 (2000): 95-127.

"The Harsh Delights of Political Duty: Thelwall, Coleridge, Wordsworth, 1795-1799." Romantic Wars: Studies in Conflict and Culture, 1793-1822. Edited by Philip Shaw. Pages 57-79. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000.

"Coleridge Beginning a Career: Desultory Authorship in 'Religious Musings.'" ELH: English Literary History 58 (1991): 167-193.

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