Julie Carlson

E. Heckendorn
Cook

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1985

Julie Carlson

Professor
English Department
UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170

Tel: (805) 893-8478
Fax: (805) 893-4622
Email: jcarlson@english.ucsb.edu
Curriculum Vitae: [pdf]

Office: SH 2523
Availability: In residence F, W, S
Office Hours: W 1:30 - 2:30pm

Co-director, Project Excel

An academic preparation initiative for local African-American and American Indian students in grades 5-12.

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Julie Carlson is a Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1985, and her central interests include: British Romanticism; early nineteenth-century British theater; the Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley family; theories of race and sexuality. She is the author of England's First Family of Writers: Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Mary Shelley, In the Theatre of Romanticism: Coleridge, Nationalism, Women; guest editor of Domestic/Tragedy (South Atlantic Quarterly) and various articles on romantic drama and theater.

Areas of Interest

British Romanticism
Feminist, race, and queer theories
Early nineteenth-century British theater
The social revolutions of the 1790s and 1960s

Books and Recent Articles

England’s First Family of Writers: Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Mary Shelley (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007)
In the Theatre of Romanticism: Coleridge, Nationalism, Women (Cambridge University Press, 1994; paperback, 2008)
Guest-editor, "Domestic/Tragedy" in South Atlantic Quarterly 98,3 (Summer 1999)
"Race and Profit in English Theatre," Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Theatre (2007)
"Baillie's Orra: Shrinking in Fear" in Joanna Baillie, Romantic Dramatist: Critical Essays (2004)
"Fancy's History" European Romantic Review 14,2 (2003)

Current Projects

Essays on romanticism and psychoanalysis, abolition, Mary Shelley's Coleridge, and discourses on torture in the romantic period.
With Ron Paris, a lecture performance, "Sweet Soul Music"

Recent Course Offerings

Romantic Alterity
Altered States: Romantic Poetry
Women's Life-Writing
The 1790s and 1960s
Tortured: Romantic Perspectives

Courses

Quarter	Course	Title
Spring 2010	ENGL 179	British Romantic Writers
Spring 2010	ENGL 233	Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature : A Structure of Feeling: British Romanticism and the Affective Turn
Winter 2010	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : P. B. Shelley and M. L. King, Jr.
Fall 2009	ENGL 103B	British Literature from 1789 to 1900
Fall 2009	ENGL 103BS	Seminar for British Literature from 1789 to 1900
Spring 2009	ENGL 103B	British Literature from 1789 to 1900
Spring 2009	ENGL 103BS	Seminar for British Literature from 1789 to 1900 : Honors Seminar
Winter 2009	COMPLIT 36	Global Humanities : Politics and Poetics of Witnessing
Winter 2009	ENGL 233	Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature : Creative Minds
Fall 2008	ENGL 179	British Romantic Writers
Spring 2008	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : Read My Mind: Romantic Relations
Winter 2008	ENGL 65PW	TOPICS IN LITERATURE : The Politics and Poetics of Witnessing
Winter 2008	ENGL 103B	British Literature from 1789 to 1900
Winter 2007	ENGL 233	Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature : Tortured: Romantic Perspectives
Fall 2006	ENGL 103B	British Literature from 1789 to 1900
Fall 2006	ENGL 103BS	Seminar for British Literature from 1789 to 1900
Spring 2006	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar
Winter 2006	ENGL 126B	Survey of British Fiction II
Winter 2006	ENGL 233	Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature : Romantic Alterity
Fall 2005	ENGL 103B	British Literature from 1789 to 1900
Fall 2005	ENGL 103BS	Seminar for British Literature from 1789 to 1900
Spring 2005	ENGL 103B	British Literature from 1789 to 1900
Spring 2005	ENGL 103BS	Seminar for British Literature from 1789 to 1900
Winter 2005	ENGL 179	British Romantic Writers
Winter 2005	ENGL 233	Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature : Romantic Sex
Spring 2004	ENGL 126B	Survey of British Fiction II
Winter 2004	ENGL 103B	British Literature from 1789 to 1900
Winter 2004	ENGL 103BS	Seminar for British Literature from 1789 to 1900
Winter 2004	ENGL 179	British Romantic Writers
Winter 2004	ENGL 179	British Romantic Writers
Fall 2003	ENGL 179	British Romantic Writers
Fall 2003	ENGL 233	Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature : English Romanticism: The Second Generation
Spring 2003	ENGL 103B	British Literature from 1789 to 1900
Spring 2003	ENGL 232	Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature : The English 1790's
Winter 2003	GENED 1GW	GE-Freshmen Seminar : Family Relations
Winter 2003	COMPLIT 186II	Interdisciplinary Comparative Literature Studies : Women and Revolution, 1790s and 1960s
Spring 2001	ENGL 103B	British Literature from 1789 to 1900 : The Victorian Age
Spring 2001	ENGL 103BS	Seminar for British Literature from 1789 to 1900
Spring 2001	ENGL 114WR	Women and Literature : Women and Revolution
Winter 2001	COMPLIT 186FF	Interdisciplinary Comparative Literature Studies : Trauma, Memory, History
Winter 2001	ENGL 233	Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature : Revolting: English Romanticism

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