Eighteenth-Century Studies

Our strength in eighteenth-century studies at the University of Notre Dame lies in innovative courses and an eminent faculty.

Eighteenth-Century and Restoration Faculty

Margaret Anne Doody, Past President of the American Society For Eighteenth-Century Studies and author of many books, including The Daring Muse, The True Story of the Novel, and Frances Burney: The Life in the Work. Professor Doody also serves as Director of Notre Dame's interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Literature Program. Read full profile >

Christopher Fox, a member of the English Department, is Chairperson of the Irish Language & Literature Department and Director of the Keough Institute for Irish Studies. A well-known Swift scholar, Professor Fox has most recently edited The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift. Read full profile >

John Sitter, who joined the department in 2004, is author of Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England and Arguments of Augustan Wit as well as other studies of poetry and satire; he recently contributed the chapter on poetry after Pope to The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780 and edited The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry. Read full profile >

Other Notre Dame Faculty

Kevin Hart directs the Religion and Literature Program. Professor Hart is author of, among other books, Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property. Read Arts and Letters faculty profile >

Peter Holland, a concurrent Professor of English and Chairperson of the Department of Film, Television and Theater, is the author of The Ornament of Action: Text and Performance in Restoration Comedy.
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Sandra Gustafson, a professor of American Literature, recently published Eloquence is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America. Read full profile >

Julia Douthwaite, Professor of Romance Language, is a winner of the James L. Clifford Prize and author of The Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster: Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment.
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Keough Institute for Irish Studies Faculty

The Keough Institute for Irish Studies has several scholars who are also members of the English Department and share eighteenth-century interests.

Seamus Deane is author of The French Revolution and Enlightenment in England and Foreign Affections: Essays on Edmund Burke.
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Luke Gibbons is the author of Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics and the Colonial Sublime. Read full profile >

Susan Harris, author of Gender and Modern Irish Drama, recently published a PMLA article on "Clearing the Stage: Gender, Class and the Freedom of the Scene in Eighteenth-Century Dublin."
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