Kurtis Hessel, Ph.D.
- Assistant Teaching Professor
- Interim Associate Director of Upper-Division Writing
Address
ENVD 1B70
Degree(s)
- Phd, English, University of Colorado
Areas of Expertise
- Science Writing and Environmental Rhetorics
Bio
Dr. Hessel studies the history and rhetoric of science and its relationship to literature, focusing especially on the establishment of modern chemistry at the turn of the nineteenth century. He is also an expert in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British Literature. He has published articles in scholarly journals including Studies in Romanticism, Configurations, and European Romantic Review and has essays in collections from Liverpool University Press and Cambridge University Press. In his free time, he wanders the mountains and canyonlands of the American west, reads and enjoys writing about nature, and writes weird and fantastical fiction.
Select Publications
- "Coleridge and Science." The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge, edited by Tim Fulford, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 161-177.
- "The Romantic-Era Lecture: Dividing and Reuniting the Arts and Sciences." Configurations, vol. 24, no. 4, fall 2016, pp. 501-32.
- "Humphry Davy's Intergalactic Travel: Catching Sight of Another Genre." Studies in Romanticism, vol. 54, no. 1, spring 2015, pp. 57-78.
Course(s) Regularly Taught
- WRTG 1150 First-year Writing and Rhetoric
- WRTG 3030 Writing on Science & Society
- WRTG 3020 Topics in Writing: Environmental Writing