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Essaka Joshua

Professor
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London; Fellow of the Nanovic Institute, University of Notre Dame; Fellow of John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values, University of Notre Dame

Professor
Office
271 Decio Faculty Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone
+1 574-631-4573
Email
ejoshua@nd.edu
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Areas of study

  • British - 18th and 19th

Education

Ph.D., University of Birmingham, UK
M.A., University of Oxford, UK English Literature and Language
B.A., University of Oxford, UK English Literature and Language
 

Research interests

Romantic and Victorian British literature, Disability Studies

Research and teaching interests

Disability Studies, Romantic-era and Victorian British Literature, Myth and Folklore

Biography

Essaka Joshua, PhD, FSA, is Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. She specializes in the literary and cultural perceptions of disability of the Romantic and Victorian periods. Joshua is the author of three monographs: Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2020), The Romantics and the May Day Tradition (Ashgate, 2007), and Pygmalion and Galatea: The History of a Narrative in English Literature (Ashgate, 2001). Professor Joshua is currently working on a monograph on disability in Romantic Theatre and is the general editor of the four-volume series, The Oxford Handbooks of Disability and Literatures in English: 700-Present.

Name pronunciation: es-AH-kuh

Representative publications

  • “Disability and Deaf Justice.” European Romantic Review 35.3 (2024): 525-523.
  • “Disability and Race.” In The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race. Ed. Manu Chander. Cambridge University Press, 2024. 98-115.
  • "‘An Infectious Madness’: Disability and the Epidemiology of Social Unrest in Charles Dickens’s Barnaby Rudge.” In Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s. Ed. John Gardner and David Stewart. Cambridge University Press, 2024. 38-61.
  • “Romantic Sociability, Deaf Comedy, and John Poole’s Deaf as a Post (1823).” Studies in Romanticism 63 (Fall 2023): 333-355.
  • Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/physical-disability-in-british-romantic-literature/E4D5DAAF624CEE08E4203ABA03915D0C

Books