Carrie Shanafelt

Visiting Assistant Professor of English

Office: KEI

Professional Biography

Before coming to Franklin & Marshall, Dr. Shanafelt taught writing and literature at several different colleges, including Queens College, Hunter College, and New York City College of Technology (City University of New York), Stern College for Women (Yeshiva University), and at Case Western Reserve University. She has served as an Instructional Technology Fellow at Medgar Evers College (CUNY), and as a research fellow in the Eighteenth-Century Reading Room in the Mina Rees Library at the City University of New York Graduate Center.

Education

Ph.D. in English, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2011

M.A. in English, Case Western Reserve University, 2003

B.A., magna cum laude, in Spanish and English, minor in Political Science, Case Western Reserve University, 2001

Research Interests

Dr. Shanafelt received her Ph.D. in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, with a dissertation on rhetorical uses of narrative in eighteenth-century British literature, philosophy, and aesthetic theory. Her current work focuses on normative constructions of imagined persons, from the "man of common sense" in eighteenth-century philosophical texts to the "reasonable person" of nineteenth-century common law, and their relationship to the development of the modern novel. Her other research interests include seventeenth-century poetry, Gothic fiction, early American literature, and film history.

Presentations

Upcoming: "Fielding's Aesthetic Theory of Sexual Representation," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, San Antonio, March 2012

"Desire and Subjectivity in The Romance of the Forest," Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Atlanta, March 2012

“Hume, Fielding, and the ‘Common Observation,’” Northeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, McMaster University, October 2011

Respondent: “What is ‘the People’? Literary and Rhetorical Boundaries of Eighteenth-Century Britishness Abroad,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vancouver, March 2011

“Common Sense and the Reasonable Man,” Osnabrück Summer School on the Cultural Study of the Law, Universität Osnabrück, August 2010

Roundtable: “Johnson After 300 Years,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Albuquerque, March 2010

“‘To be a poet...is indeed very difficult’: Johnson’s Aesthetic Optimism,” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, December 2009

“Protestant Epistemologies of the Restoration,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Dallas, October 2009

“The Rhetoric of Narrative in Scottish Enlightenment Philosophy,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Richmond, March 2009

Course Information

Spring 2012:

ENG 203 - Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature

ENG/AFS/AMS 271 - Literature of Economics and Slavery

ENG 274 - Milton

Independent Study - David Foster Wallace and Postmodern Aesthetics

Fall 2011:

ENG 203 - Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature

ENG 273 - The Gothic Novel

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