Erin Spampinato

Title

Visiting Assistant Professor of English

Department

English

Information

Office Hours

Tu/Th: 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Current Courses

CRS	Title	Sec
EN120F	Language, Thought, and Writing: Queer Romantics/Queer Romanticisms	A
EN297	Race in the 19th-Century Literature of the British Empire	A
EN298	The Victorian Novel	A
EN398	How the British Became Straight: Reading the Queer 18th Century	A

Education

Ph.D., 2020, The Graduate Center, CUNY
M.Phil., 2016, The Graduate Center, CUNY
M.A., 2011, Columbia University
B.A., 2006, Smith College

Areas of Expertise

Sexual Violence Studies
Feminist Theory
The Long Eighteenth Century
The Long Nineteenth Century
Gender and Sexuality Studies
History of the Novel
Philosophy of Mind
Trauma Studies
Masculinity Studies
Oceanic and Pacific Islander Studies
Composition and Rhetoric
Law and Literature

Publications

“Awful Nearness: A Literary and Cultural History of Rape, 1740-1900.” [Book Manuscript Supported by a 2021-22 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship.]
“Theorizing Contemporary Rape Studies,” co-edited collection (with Dr. Doreen Thierauf and Dr. Michael Dango). [Edited Collection, under contract with SUNY Press]
“Rereading Rape in the Critical Canon: Adjudicative Criticism and the Capacious Conception of Rape.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 32.2 (Fall 2021).
“‘Never Punch Down’: Or, How We Disagree (Online) Now,” PMLA 135.4 (October 2020).
“Tom Became What He Ought to Be: Mansfield Park as Homosocial Bildungsroman.” Studies in the Novel 51.4 (December 2019).
“Hideous Men: David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews in Hindsight,” The Routledge Companion to Masculinity in American Literature and Culture, edited by Lydia R. Cooper (2020).
“Casaubon’s ‘Highly Esteemed...Fable of Cupid and Psyche’; or, Can We Take Myth Seriously in Middlemarch?” Critical Insights: George Eliot, edited by Katie Peel. Salem Press, pp. 228-243 (2016).
“Love Under These Conditions,” The Rambling, 13 February 2021 (https://the-rambling.com/2021/02/13/issue11-spampinato/)

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