Michael Berlin Director of the Writing Program and Visiting Assistant Professor of English

Payne Hall 202
540-458-8757
mberlin@wlu.edu
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Education

Ph.D., UC Irvine

Research

British and transatlantic literature of the long eighteenth century; formations of race and gender in the early Atlantic world; comparative poetics; the history of literary theory & criticism.

Teaching

English 393, “Genres of the Atlantic,” WLU, Fall, 2024.
English 295, “Currents of Romantic Revolution,” WLU, Spring, 2024.
English 251, “Atlantic Worlds, Atlantic Violence in 18th-century British Literature,” WLU, Fall, 2023.
Writing 100, “Writing as Learning and Unlearning,” WLU, Fall, 2023.
English 392, “Metaphysical Poetics,” WLU, Winter, 2023.
Writing 100, “Civil War,” WLU, Fall, 2022.

Selected Publications

Articles and Review Essays
“‘Oblivions Sable Shore’: Phillis Wheatley Peters at the Limits of Lyric History,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 64, No. 3-4 (Fall-Winter, 2023): 303-326.
“Global Poetics: Reactive and Relational,” The Georgia Review 75, no. 4 (Winter, 2021).
“‘How the World Really Ends’: Adorno on Working Through Catastrophes to Come,” Cultural Critique 109 (Fall, 2020): 112-138.

Book Reviews
The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism by Mark Canuel, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies (accepted)
The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation by Lenora Hanson, Studies in Romanticism (Winter 2023): 541–552
“On Jay Wright’s The Prime Anniversary,” The Georgia Review 74, no. 2 (Summer, 2020)

Work in Progress
“The Middle Passage,” in Phillis Wheatley Peters in Context (commissioned; in progress)
“Consider the Source: Robert Wedderburn’s Radical Gospel,” Early American Studies (commissioned; in progress)
“Salvaging Enlightenment” (commissioned; submitted)
“‘Fancy’s Wilde Work’: Race, Gender, and the ‘Soaring Fortunes of the Lyric’” (under review)

Book manuscript
“The Poetry of Origins: Race, Empire, and the Making of the English Ode”

Fellowships

Mellon–Council for European Studies Completion Fellowship, Columbia University, 2021-22.

Tierney Humanities Scholarship, UCI, Summer 2020.

Dorothy & Donald Strauss Endowed Dissertation Fellowship, UCI, Winter & Spring quarters 2020.

William Andrews Clark Library Predoctoral Fellowship, UCLA, October 2019.

Michael J. Connell Foundation Fellowship, Huntington Library, August & September 2019.