Assistant Professor of English, Graduate Coordinator
Office
Moreland 318
Phone
541-737-1650
Email
evan.gottlieb@oregonstate.edu
Education
Ph. D. SUNY Buffalo 2002
M.A. SUNY Buffalo 2000
B.A. McMaster University (Canada) 1997
Areas of specialization
Romantic Literature, Scottish Literature, Eighteenth-century
Literature, Critical and Literary Theory.
Selected publications
Books
Feeling British: Sympathy and National Identity in Scottish and
English Writing, 1707-1832. Lewisburg: Bucknell University
Press, 2007
Articles
“Unvarnished Tales and Fatal Influences: Teaching the National Tale and Historical Novel.” Forthcoming In Novel Prospects: Teaching Romantic-era Fiction (special issue of Romantic Circles -- Pedagogy Commons).
"Fools of Prejudice: Sympathy and National Identity in the Scottish
Enlightenment and Humphry Clinker." Eighteenth-Century
Fiction 18.1 (Fall 2005): 81-106.
"'To be at Once Another and The Same': Walter Scott and the End(s)
of Sympathetic Britishness." Studies in Romanticism 43
(Summer 2004): 187-207.
"The Astonished Eye: The British Sublime and Thomson's 'Winter'."
The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 42 (2001):
43-58.
"Charles Kingsley, the Romantic Legacy, and the Unmaking of the
Working-Class Intellectual." Victorian Literature and
Culture 29 (2001): 51-66.
Review Essays
“Representing Violence, Rethinking Empire.” Review of Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century British Literature by Simon Dentith; Bloody Romanticism by Ian Haywood; Imperial Masochism by Greg Kucich. Forthcoming in Studies in the Novel.