Studies in Romanticism at the University of Nebraska


Associated Faculty

Stephen C. Behrendt, University Professor and George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English. PhD University of Wisconsin. British Romanticism, later 18th-century British literature, British Women Writers, Interdisciplinary 19th-century Studies, Literature and the Other Arts, Creative Witing (Poetry).

Peter J. Capuano, Associate Professor and Director of the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Program. PhD Univeristy of Virginia. British Victorian fiction and Culture, Dickens and Victorian body studies, Digital Studies

Tom Gannon, Assistant Professor of English. PhD University of Iowa. Native American literatures, British Romanticism, Ecology and literature.

Michael R. Page, Lecturer in English. PhD University of Nebraska. British Romanticism, 18th-century literature, literature and science, science fiction.

Robert Stock, Professor of English, Emeritus. PhD Princeton University. Restoration and 18th-century literature, the literary treatment of religious experience. Current projects involve daemonic enthrallment in literature from classical to modern times.

Jack Vespa, Assistant Professor of Practice. PhD University of Utah. British Romanticism, Poetry of Sensibility, American Romanticism, American Modernism. Current research focuses upon the moral consciousness and sense of self in the work of Wordsworth and his circle at the end of the 18th century, as Sensibility turns to Romanticism.

Laura Mooneyham White, Associate Professor of English. PhD, Vanderbilt University. 19th and 20th century British literature, especially novels. Interests include narrative theory, genre theory, history of manners, Anglo American modernism, and Jane Austen.