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Aaron Hanlon

Title

Associate Professor of English

Department

English

Information

Office Hours

Tu 4pm-5:30pm; W 10am-12pm and by appointment

Current Courses

CRS Title Sec
EN120A Language, Thought, and Writing: Styles of Persuasion A
EN271 Critical Theory A
EN297B Writing for the Public: Pitch to Print A
EN318 Dating and Relationships in 18th-Century British Literature A
EN348 Truth in Fiction A

Education

D.Phil., Oxford
M.A., Dartmouth
B.A., M.A., Bucknell

Areas of Expertise

  • British literature c. 1600-1815

  • The Enlightenment in Britain

  • Philosophy of literature

  • Early modern history and philosophy of science

  • US and transatlantic literature to 1815



Personal Information

My research takes the history of British literature from roughly 1600-1815 as a basis for understanding how we frame and organize knowledge and how fact, fiction, and inference work together in the various types of writing we have called “literature”: not only fiction and poetry, but also scientific atlases, political pamphlets, correspondences, and travelogues. I bring literature (broadly defined) into conversation with history and philosophy, particularly the history and philosophy of science. I treat the works of literature I study mainly as discursive documents of ideas that tell us useful things about history, philosophy, science, and political theory.



Publications

For a complete list of my publications, see my CV