 Professor of English
Office: Hellems 112 Telephone: 303-492-6032 E-mail: Paul.Youngquist@Colorado.edu |
Research and teaching interests
British Romanticism; Atlantic Studies; science fiction; literary and cultural theory
Education
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1988
M.A., University of Virginia, 1982
B.A., University of Colorado, 1980
Publications
Books
Cyberfiction: After the Future. Palgrave/Macmillan, forthcoming
Ed., Race, Romanticism and the Atlantic. Ashgate Press, forthcoming
Ed., An Historical Account of the Black Empire in Hayti, by Marcus Rainsford. Duke Univ. Press, forthcoming
Monstrosities: Bodies and British Romanticism. Minnesota Univ. Press, 2003
Madness and Blake’s Myth. Penn State Press, 1990.
Essays
“The Transmigration of Philip K. Dick.” The Common Review, forthcoming
“Thinking Outside the Quad.” minnesota review 70 (2008): 129-32. Rpt. www.insidehighered.com, Sept. 18, 2008
“Wells, Wonder, and the World.” Afterword, The Time Machine and the Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells. Signet Classics, 2007, 278-89
“Techno-Prosthetic Romantic Futurism.” Romanticism on the Net 41-42 (2006)
“The Afro-Futurism of DJ Vassa.” European Romantics Review 16:2 (2005): 181-93
“Romantic Dietetics! Or, Eating Your Way to a New You!” Eating Romanticism: Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite: Eating Romanticism. Ed. Timothy Morton. Palgrave/Macmillan, 2004, 237-56
“After the Future: William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition.” the minnesota review 61-62 (2004): 275-81
“The Space Machine: Baraka and Science Fiction.” African American Review 37 (2003): 333-43
“Ballard's Crash Body.” Postmodern Culture 11 (2001)
“The Face of Beauty: Reynolds, Camper, Blake.” Word and Image 16 (2000): 319-34
“Score, Scan, Schiz: Dick on Drugs.” Cultural Critique 44 (2000): 85-110
“De Quincey's Crazy Body.” PMLA 114 (1999): 346-58
“Rehabilitating Coleridge: Poetry, Philosophy, Excess.” English Literary History 66 (1999): 885-909
“Lyrical Bodies: Wordsworth's Physiological Aesthetics.” European Romantics Review 10 (1999): 152-62
“Romanticism, Criticism, Organicity.”Genre 27 (1995): 183-208
“Vision, Madness, Myth and William Blake.”Dionysus in Literature: Essays on Literary Madness. Ed. Branimir Rieger. The Popular Press, 1994, 56-78
“Reading the Apocalypse: The Narrativity of Blake's Jerusalem.” Studies in Romanticism 32 (1993): 601-26
“Frankenstein: the Mother, the Daughter, and the Monster.” Philological Quarterly 70 (1991): 339-59
“Criticism and the Experience of Blake's Milton.” Studies in English Literature 30 (1990): 555-71
“Browning, Gnosis, and the Dilemma of the Demiurge.” Victorians Institute Journal 17 (1989): 157-68
Selected honors and awards
Pushcart Prize nomination for “Thinking Outside the Quad,” minnesota review 70 (2008)
Dorothy W. Gilpatrick Faculty Fellow, Penn State, 1992-93
George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching, Penn State, 1991
Current projects
Black Romanticism (book)