Barrett Kalter, Assistant Professor
Office: Curtin Hall 595
Phone: 414-229-4500
e-mail: bkalter@uwm.edu
Curriculum Vita: Vita (pdf 19k)
Degree(s):
Ph.D., Rutgers University, 2004
B.A., Hampshire College, 1996
Research Interests:
Theories of Objects, especially Artifacts and Furnishings
Historiography and Historical Consciousness
The Social Dimension of Authorship, Reading, Literary Value
My book-in-progress, Modern Antiques: Imagination, Scholarship, and the Material Past, explores the influence of consumer culture and antiquarian research on literary representations of historical time in eighteenth-century England.
Teaching Interests:
Eighteenth-century British Literature
Gothic mode from its Eighteenth-century Inception to the Present
Poetic Form and Versification
At some point, I hope to offer a course that will relate significant moments in the history of food to descriptions of hunger, taste, cooking, and eating in works of fiction and poetry.
Recent Publications:
DIY Gothic: Thomas Gray and the Medieval Revival, ELH 70 [2003]: 989-1019.