Title: Assistant Professor

Department: English

Office: 423 Benson
Phone: 322-6979
Email: dahlia.j.porter@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

• Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2007.
• M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana, 2000.
• B.A., New York University, 1996.

Research Area

• British Romanticism
• Eighteenth-century Literature
• Literature and Science

Current Courses

• English 254a: Romantic Travelers (Fall 2007)
• English 254b: Romanticism and the Past (Spring 2008)

Professional Societies

• North American Society for th Study of Romanticism (NASSR)
• American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS)
• Modern Language Association (MLA)

Publications

• EDITION
• Lyrical Ballads, 1798 and 1800, Co-edited with Michael Gamer, Broadview Press (forthcoming 2008).
• ARTICLES
• "From Nosegay to Speciment Cabinet: Charlotte Smith, Poet-Editor-Collector," Charlotte Smith in British Romanticism, ed. Jacqueline Labbe, Pickering & Chatto (forthcoming 2008).
• "Scientific Analogy and Literary Taxonomy in Darwin's Loves of the Plants," European Romantic Review (April 2007).