A. Fiona Doxas

My Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, and Minor I received from CU Boulder. I graduated summa cum laude with distinction in English and with distinction in both Journalism and Japanese. Professor Jillian Heydt-Stevenson kindly supervised my honors thesis on the linear progression of Mary Shelley's thought throughout her published works. I did my Masters at Columbia University through their global center in Paris where Professor Frédéric Regard of the Sorbonne kindly supervised my thesis on Mary Shelley's picturesque thinking. Between these projects I taught several groups of amazing students for two years in Japan.

My doctoral dissertation titled "'Embodied Spirit': Mary Shelley's Metaphysical System" looks at Mary Shelley’s novels as vehicles of cogent philosophical argument that, combined, amount to a system that advances the frameworks integral to the discipline within her period. The project necessarily explores questions such as what is metaphysics in the Romantic period? What are the delineation criteria for a system as opposed to a collection of theories, or of metaphysics and philosophy? Did Mary Shelley see herself as a practitioner of metaphysics, or her work as metaphysical in its subject matter? If her novels express cogent arguments why are these arguments made in a creative mode rather than a more traditionally argumentative one? Answers to these questions form the assumptions by which an intelligible account of Mary Shelley's metaphysical system can be reached. My materials consist of Mary Shelley's novels, from Frankenstein to Faulkner, her letters, and her journals as well as those by her circle which are relevant to my inquiry.

My supervisor is Dr. Timothy Michael.