Contact
Professor, Faculty of Arts - English & Film Studies Dept
- charol@ualberta.ca
- Address
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3-55 Humanities Centre
11121 Saskatchewan Drive NWEdmonton ABT6G 2H5
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Eighteenth-Century Literature Secularization Politics and Gender. Authorship Attribution
About
I have a PhD from UCLA, and I specialize in restoration and eighteenth-century literature and culture. I am especially interested in the late seventeenth century, but I am happy to supervise students in any area of the long eighteenth century. Areas of research interest include: the intersections of literary, scientific, political, and religious discourses; intellectual history and critical theory; feminist theory and gender studies; the history of literary history; religion and postsecularism. Recently I have been working on theories of authorship and methods of authorship attribution.
Courses
ENGL 305 - Topics in Literature and Religion
Prerequisite: *6 of junior English, or *3 of junior English plus WRS 101 or 102. Note: variable content course which may be repeated if topics vary.
Scholarly Activities
Research - Advisory Board, PMLA
PMLA is the journal of the Modern Language Association of America. Since 1884 PMLA has published members’ essays judged to be of interest to scholars and teachers of language and literature. Four issues each year (January, March, May, and October) present essays on language and literature, and the September issue is the program for the association’s annual convention. Each issue is sent directly to about 26,000 college and university teachers of English and foreign languages who belong to the association and to about 1,800 libraries throughout the world.
PMLAResearch - Literary Director, The Orlando Project
The Orlando Project is an experiment in the integration of text and technology. It has designed and continues to enhance digital tools to harness the power of computers for critical literary and historical research. The project's constantly expanding and improving storehouse of knowledge about women's lives and writings, the Orlando textbase itself, is rendered uniquely searchable and sortable by its encoding. Its widening of the knowledge base in cultural history goes together with the training and professional development of generations of students.
The Orlando Project