Julie Carlson
  • Office:
    South Hall 2702

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  • Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1985

Julie Carlson is a Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara and co-editor of Brainstorm Books (punctum books). She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1985, and her central interests include: British Romanticism; early nineteenth-century British theater; the Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley family; theories of race and sexuality; mind studies. She is the author of England’s First Family of Writers: Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Mary Shelley (Johns Hopkins, 2007), In the Theatre of Romanticism: Coleridge, Nationalism, Women (Cambridge UP, 1994), guest editor of Domestic/Tragedy (South Atlantic Quarterly, 1997), co-editor (with Elisabeth Weber) of Speaking About Torture (Fordham, 2012) and various articles on romantic drama and theater, cultural poetics, and the politics of friendship.  Currently she is writing a book on Friendship and Creativity: A Radical Legacy of British Romantic-Era Writing.

Research Areas

  • c. 1800-1945
  • British Literature
  • Cognitive Studies and/or Psychoanalysis
  • Genders and Sexualities

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Julie Carlson
  • Office:
    South Hall 2702
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    English Department UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170

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