(on sabbatical)

Dr. Coby Dowdell

Associate Professor

Phone: 4464
Email: cdowdel2@uwo.ca

Education

• Ph.D., English Literature, University of Toronto
• M.A., English Literature, University of Western Ontario
• Hon. B.A., English Literature and History, University of Guelph

Teaching

• ENG1027F/G: The Storyteller’s Art I
• ENG1028F/G: The Storyteller’s Art II (Climate Change Fiction)
• ENG2299F/G: Critical Practice
• ENG2203F/G: Studies in Narrative Theory
• ENG3261F/G: The Afterlives of Freud: Psychoanalytical Theory & Literary Analysis in the Twenty-First Century
• ENG3348F/G: Topics in Restoration & Eighteenth-Century Literature: Affect, Ethics, Action: Eighteenth-Century Sentimentalism
• ENG3349F/G: Topics in Restoration & Eighteenth-Century Literature: The Ethics of Augustan Satire
• ENG4060F/G: Studies in Solitude and Isolation
• ENG4871F/G: (auto)affective (dis)order(s)

Research

narrative theory (print & digital); psychoanalysis and literature; climate change fiction; ecocriticism; eighteenth-Century British and American literature.

Selected Publications

• [Multiple entries on eighteenth-century hermit novels]. The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820. Edited by April London (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).\

• “So You Want to Be a Hermit?: The Politics of Doing Nothing at All.” King’s Cosmos. Edited by Jonathan Geen, Ian Rae & Renée Soulodre-La France. (King’s University College, 2018). 8-11.

• “‘The Luxury of Solitude’: Conduct, Domestic Deliberation, and the Eighteenth-Century Female Recluse.” Cultures of Solitude: Loneliness-Limitation-Liberation. Edited by Ina Bergmann and Stephan Hippler (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2017). 79-97.

• “Ascetic Aesthetics.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 48.1 (fall 2014): 117-124.

• “The American Hermit and the British Castaway: Voluntary Retreat & Deliberative Democracy in Early American Culture.” Early American Literature 46.1 (spring 2011).

• “‘A Living Law to Himself and Others’: Daniel Defoe, Algernon Sidney, and the Politics of Self-Interest." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 22.3 (spring 2010): 415-442.

• “Withdrawing from the Nation: Regionalist Literature as Ascetic Practice in Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs.” Legacy 21.2 (2004): 210-228.