DANIEL P. WATKINS
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH

Office: College Hall 619
Telephone: 412-396-6438
Email: watkins@duq.edu

Fall 2008 Office Hours:
On Sabbatical

EDUCATION
B.A., University of Northern Alabama
M.A., Auburn University
Ph.D., University of Maryland

Trained in Nineteenth-century British Literature, with a special interest in the work of Byron, Dan Watkins teaches courses in Romanticism, Nineteenth-century British poetry and thought, Literary Theory, the Literature and Culture of the Sixties, and Twentieth-century African-American Literature.  Among his many publications are Social Relations in Byron's Eastern Tales, Keats's Poetry and the Politics of the Imagination, A Materialist Critique of British Romantic Drama, and Sexual Power in British Romantic Poetry.  He has also published numerous articles in such outlets as ELH, Philological Quarterly, Keats-Shelley Journal, and Studies in English Literature.  Currently he is exploring the connections between the literary and popular imaginations in contemporary culture, with a focus on various forms of popular music.

 

"Romanticism, Gender, and History: A Critical Investigation of Non-Canonical British Romantic Texts" (in progress)

English Romantic Drama. (co-edited with Terence A. Hoagwood) Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998.

Sexual Power in British Romantic Poetry. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1996.

"Gender, Self, and Subjectivity in Keats's Ode to Psyche." In Keats and History. Ed. Nicholas Rose. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

A Materialist Critique of Romantic Drama. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1993.

Keats's Poetry and the Politics of the Imagination. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1989; Toronto and London: Associated University Presses, 1989.Spirits of Fire: English Romantic Writers and Contemporary Historical Methods. (co-edited with G.A. Rosso). Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1990.

Social Relations in Byron's Eastern Tales. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1987: Toronto and London: Associated University Presses, 1987.