Tuesday, Thursday 11:00 am–12:15 pm
PhD, University of Delaware
Christopher Keirstead received his PhD from the University of Delaware in 1999 and is a specialist in Victorian literature and culture. Other research and teaching interests include poetry, travel and mobility studies, genre studies, and Dickens. His current book project, Repeat Engagements: Continuities of Mobility, Modernity, and Form in Travel Writing since the Nineteenth Century, revisits some of travel writing’s most enduring and politically-charged contact zones in an effort to map the unique ways the form seeks to render processes of historical, technological and cultural change. Other on-going research projects include studies of British travel writing about the American South and the significance of poetry in nineteenth-century European travel guides.
19th-century British literature and culture; poetry; Dickens; genre studies; travel writing; Victorian studies