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

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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