Glynis Ridley
Appointments
- Associate Professor
Departments
Location
- Room 318 B
- Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
Phone Number
- 502-852-5920
Email Address
Website
Bio
Office Hours:
English Courses Recently Taught:
HUM 593-01: Perspectives on Early Modern Culture (Spring, 2008)
ENGL 601 - 01: Introduction to English Studies (Spring, 2008)
ENGL 310 - 06: Writing About Literature (Fall, 2007)
ENGL 391 - 01: The Novel in English I (Fall, 2007)
Hum 593 - 01: Perspectives on Early Modern Culture (Spring, 2007)
ENGL 601 - 75: Introduction to English Studies (Spring, 2007)
ENGL 314 - 01: British Lit. from Shakespeare - Neoclassical Period
(Fall, 2006)
ENGL 642 - 75: Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Fall, 2006)
ENGL 318 - 01: American Literature to 1830 (Spring, 2006)
ENGL 601 - 01: Introduction to English Studies (Spring, 2006)
Educational Background
- Ph.D. from Trinity College, University of Oxford
Teaching Areas
- Eighteenth-Century Studies; History of Rhetoric
Publications
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Clara's Grand Tour
Clara's Grand Tour: Travels with a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Atlantic Books: London, 2004). Pp. xvii + 222. Winner of the Institute of Historical Research Prize. Shortlisted for the Longman History Today Book of the Year Award 2005. Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2005.
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The Rhetoric of Liberty
'The Rhetoric of Liberty: Playing to the Crowd in the American and French Revolutions', Enlightenment and Emancipation edited by Susan Manning and Peter France (Bucknell University Press, 2006): 63-80.
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Studley Royal
'Studley Royal: Landscape as Sculpture', Sculpture and the Garden edited by Patrick Eyres and Fiona Russell (Ashgate and the Henry Moore Institute, 2006): 50-60.
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Sacred and Secular Places
'Sacred and Secular Places: an Atlantic Divide', Recording and Reordering. Essays on the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Diary and Journal edited by Dan Doll and Jessica Munns (Bucknell University Press, 2006): 22-42.
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National Identity and Empire
'National Identity and Empire: Britain and the American Colonies, 1763-1787', Colonial Empires Compared: Britain and the Netherlands 1750-1850 edited by Bob Moore and Henk van Nierop (Ashgate, 2003): 47-75.
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Losing America and Finding Australia
'Losing America and Finding Australia: Continental Drift in an Enlightenment Paradigm', Eighteenth-Century Life: The Exotic edited by Robert P. Maccubbin and Christa Knellwolf (Duke University Press, Fall 2002): 202-224.