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Mark Schoenfield

Title: Professor and Department Chair

Department: English

Office: Benson 331
Phone: 322-2541
Fax: 343-8028
Email: mark.schoenfield@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

  • BA Yale University
  • Ph.D. University of Southern California; M.P.W. (fiction) USC

Research Area

  • Romanticism
  • Print Culture
  • Literature and Law

Current Research

  • 19th-Century British Periodical and Legal Culture

Current Courses

  • Eng 231: 19th Century Novel (fall, 2012)
  • Honors: Existential Fictions (spring, 2013)
  • 2005 winner of the Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching in the Humanities

Previous Positions

  • Organizer and teacher, "Teaching the Hard-Stuff Graduate Seminars," & "Teaching the Text" Center for Ethics seminars.
  • Teacher: "To Be or Not: Existential Fictions" Vanderbilt Program for Talented Youth, Summer 2008 (3 week summer school course for high school students).

Publications

  • (selected)
  • British Periodicals and Romantic Identity:The "Literary Lower Empire" winner of the Colby Prize for outstanding work on 19th century periodicals.
  • The Professional Wordsworth: Law, Labor, and the Poet's Contract Georgia UP
  • "Byron in the Satirist." "Romantic Fandom" Praxis volume. Ed. Eric Eisner. Romantic Circles
  • "Periodicals: Aesthetics and Media" Co-authored with Kristin Samuelian, George Mason University. Eds. Julia Wright and Joel Faflak. Handbook to Romanticism Studies.
  • "The Edinburgh Review Set " Ed. Diane Long Hoeveler. Blackwell Encyclopedia of Romanticism, Prose Volume.
  • "A Performance of Difference: The Public Image of Daniel Mendoza" Romanticism and "The Jewish Question": Nationalism, Religion, Individualism.
  • "Romantic Periodicals" Co-authored with Brian Rejack, Vanderbilt University. Literature Compass. Ed. Libby Fay. New York [online]:
  • "The Culture of Comparison: Byron in the Satirist" "Romantic Fandom" Praxis volume. Romantic Circles, 2010
  • "Justice: Romanticism and the Law" in Jon Klancher, ed., A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age. Blackwell Publishing, 2009
  • "Private Souvenirs: Exchanges among Byron's Southwell Set." Wordsworth Circle 2008
  • Nonacademic: Playing with Logic, Discovering Logic, Adventures with Logic (three grade-school activity books, co-authored with J. Rosenblatt), San Francisco: Lake Publishers, 1985.
  • RECENT TALKS
  • "The Celebrity of the Ordinary: Men and Modes of Fashion" Plenary Speaker, 7th Annual English Graduate Student Conference, University of Tulsa, October, 2012
  • "Romantic Violence in the World of Print" Print in the Media Ecology, Colloquium of the Interacting with Print Research Group. McGill University, March 2012
  • Vanderbilt/McGill Humanities Summit, April 2012. Curb Center for Creativity.
  • "The Taste for Violence in Blackwood's Magazine" plenary address, RSVP, Yale University, 2010.