Assistant Professor of English
810 Gruening Hall
medson2@alaska.edu

Subject Expertise

·              Poetry and poetics

·              Eighteenth-century and Romantic culture

·              Theory and history of editing/annotation

·              History of ideas

Author Interests

·               James Thomson, Thomas Turner, Charles Churchill, John Locke, Lord Byron, Percival Stockdale, Charlotte Brooke, and Anna Larpent

Current Projects

·              Article on eighteenth-century diaries and secularization 

·              Article on the annotation of eighteenth-century satire 

Current Courses

·              English 301: Classical Literature and Modern Adaptation

·              English 415: Satire in Print and Image

Future Courses (Spring 2013)

·              English 200X: Colonial Encounters (World Literature) [2 sections]

·              English 309: British Literature: Romanticism to Present