Michael Berlin

Michael Berlin

Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program

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Education

  • Ph.D., UC Irvine

Research

  • British and transatlantic literature of the long eighteenth century
  • Formations of race and gender in the early Atlantic world
  • Comparative poetics
  • The history of literary theory & criticism

Teaching

  • English 393, “Genres of the Atlantic,” WLU, Fall, 2024.
  • English 295, “Currents of Romantic Revolution,” WLU, Spring, 2024.
  • English 251, “Atlantic Worlds, Atlantic Violence in 18th-century British Literature,” WLU, Fall, 2023.
  • Writing 100, “Writing as Learning and Unlearning,” WLU, Fall, 2023.
  • English 392, “Metaphysical Poetics,” WLU, Winter, 2023.
  • Writing 100, “Civil War,” WLU, Fall, 2022.

Selected Publications

Articles and Review Essays

  • “‘Oblivions Sable Shore’: Phillis Wheatley Peters at the Limits of Lyric History,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 64, No. 3-4 (Fall-Winter, 2023): 303-326.

  • “Global Poetics: Reactive and Relational,” The Georgia Review 75, no. 4 (Winter, 2021).

  • “‘How the World Really Ends’: Adorno on Working Through Catastrophes to Come,” Cultural Critique 109 (Fall, 2020): 112-138

Book Reviews

  • The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism by Mark Canuel, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies (accepted)

  • The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation by Lenora Hanson, Studies in Romanticism (Winter 2023): 541–552

  • “On Jay Wright’s The Prime Anniversary,” The Georgia Review 74, no. 2 (Summer, 2020)

Work in Progress

  • “The Middle Passage,” in Phillis Wheatley Peters in Context (commissioned; in progress)

  • “Consider the Source: Robert Wedderburn’s Radical Gospel,” Early American Studies (commissioned; in progress)

  • “Salvaging Enlightenment” (commissioned; submitted)

  • “‘Fancy’s Wilde Work’: Race, Gender, and the ‘Soaring Fortunes of the Lyric’” (under review)

Book manuscript

  • “The Poetry of Origins: Race, Empire, and the Making of the English Ode”

Fellowships

  • Mellon–Council for European Studies Completion Fellowship, Columbia University, 2021-22.
  • Tierney Humanities Scholarship, UCI, Summer 2020.
  • Dorothy & Donald Strauss Endowed Dissertation Fellowship, UCI, Winter & Spring quarters 2020.
  • William Andrews Clark Library Predoctoral Fellowship, UCLA, October 2019.
  • Michael J. Connell Foundation Fellowship, Huntington Library, August & September 2019.