Brian Elliott
Post-Doctoral
Primary Interests
19th Century American Literature and Transatlantic Romanticism
Secondary Interests
American Transcendentalism
Mythology and Folklore
Satire
Office: Ellis 323
Office Phone: 593-2786
Email: be119205@ohio.edu
Degrees
M.A. English: Ohio University 2007
B.S. Computer Science, English: Muskingum College (now Muskingum University) 2000. Magna Cum Laude
Publications
Recent Publications:
“‘Nothing beside remains’: Empty Icons and Elegiac Ekphrasis in Felicia Hemans.” Studies in Romanticism. (Forthcoming 2012)
”‘To Love Have Prov’d a Foe’: Virginity, Virtue, and Love’s Dangers in Anne Killigrew’s Pastoral Dialogues.” Restoration 33.1 (2009): 27-41.
Rev. of The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie. Quarter After Eight: A Journal of Prose and Commentary 15 (2009): 99-101.
Curriculum Vitae
Awards:
Emily Tice Outstanding Graduate Essay Award (2008)
Recent Conference Presentations:
“‘The slayer has been here before us’: Disinheritance, Democracy, and Revenge in Bird’s Nick of the Woods.” 42nd Annual Conference of the College English Association, St. Petersburg, Florida, 2011.
“Through a Glass Lightly: The Obscuring Game in Chaucer’s Dream Vision.” The 28th Annual Medieval & Renaissance Forum. Plymouth State University, Plymouth, New Hampshire, 2007
“Is This Thing On?: Humor in the Classroom.” Don’t You Have Anything Better to Do?: Work, Play, and Humor in English Studies. Ohio University, 2006
Courses
ENG 152: Writing and Reading: "Making a Scene"
ENG 200: Introduction to Literature: Satire, Comedy, and Humor
ENG 200: Introduction to Literature: Pop Culture Icons, Cult Classics, Literary Sources
ENG 201: Critical Approaches to Fiction
ENG 253: Survey of American Literature
ENG 308J: Writing and Rhetoric II: Rereading America: A Nietzschean Take on American Mythology
ENG 308J: Writing and Rhetoric II: "That's Not My American Dream": Rethinking American Mythology