Morningstar, Dr Carolyn

Job Title: Director, Visiting Student Programme
College: Mansfield
Period/ Subject: American Literature/ 20th Century

Email address: carolyn.morningstar@mansfield.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

Nineteenth Century American literature; American Idealism and Nineteenth Century American Intellectual History; Modern Poetry.

Teaching Areas:

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Literature; Contemporary American and British drama; Literary Theory; Modern Poetry.

Recent Publications:

‘”Uncertain Stumbling Buzz”: Creative Uncertainty in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry’, The English Review, vol. 17, no. 3 (Feb 2007).

‘Robert Frost’s Sonnet Experiments’, The English Review, vol. 18, no. 3 (Feb 2008).

Review of Paul Giles, Atlantic Republic: The American Tradition in English Literature (University of Oxford Press, 2006), Notes and Queries, June 2009.

Review of David Krasner, American Drama: 1945-2000 (Blackwell, 2006), Notes and Queries, forthcoming.

Other Information:

Currently writing Walt Whitman’s ‘New World Metaphysics’:  American Idealism and Leaves of Grass.

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