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David Sigler
Ph.D. in English, University of Virginia![David Sigler](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_supervisors_profile_picture/public/2019-12/FGS-Headshots-111.jpg?h=1844fb59&itok=1KDmfBr5)
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I am interested in working with graduate students in the areas of British Romanticism, eighteenth or nineteenth-century British Literature, any aspect of poststructuralist theory, psychoanalytic theory, deconstruction, and/or the history of feminism in Britain.
My areas of expertise are British Romanticism and literary theory, either charmingly blended together or taken separately. Within Romanticism, I have particular interests in women's writing, the history of feminism, and the history of sexuality. Within literary theory, I am especially versed in the thought of Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze. My current research project, funded by a SSHRC Insight Grant, concerns the erotics of rule-following in British Romantic literature.
My research has included two books, Sexual Enjoyment in British Romanticism (McGill-Queen's UP 2015) and Fracture Feminism: The Politics of Impossible Time in British Romanticism (SUNY 2021). Other recent projects have included Lacan and Romanticism (SUNY 2019, co-edited with Daniela Garofalo) and Romantic Women's Writing and Sexual Transgression (Edinburgh UP 2024, co-edited with Kathryn Ready). Recent articles have discussed the waywardness of pleasure in John Keats, the paradoxes of the death penalty in Mary Shelley, and intersubjective time in Jane Austen. I am one of the editors of the journal Romanticism on the Net.
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