Dr Sam Halliday, BA (Sussex) MA (Nottingham) PhD (London)
Lecturer in Nineteenth-century American Literature
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 8553
email: s.j.r.halliday@qmul.ac.uk
Research interests:
Sam Halliday's research interests include nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature, the history of science and technology, the body and the senses, and literary/philosophical responses to sound and music. He has recently completed Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity (Palgrave, 2007), a literary and cultural study of the many things – from love and solidarity to slavery, embodiment, conspiracy and time – electricity has been used to think about and represent. He is currently working on Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts, in which Moholy-Nagy, Tolstoy, Wagner, Marvin Gaye and others will appear.
'Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James' by Sam Halliday
Publications:
(Recent publications)
Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity (New York: Palgrave, 2007)
‘Helen Keller, Henry James, and the Social Relations of Perception’, Criticism,48:2 (Spring 2006), 175-201
‘History, ‘Civilization,’ and A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court’, in A Companion to Mark Twain, ed by Peter Messent and Louis J Budd (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), pp 416-30
‘Deceit, Desire, and Technology: A Media History of Secrets and Lies’, Forum for Modern Language Studies, 37:2 (April 2001), 141-54
‘George Beard, electricity, and the nervous body in the nineteenth-century’, in Homo Orthopedicus: Le Corps et ses prosthèses à l’époque (post-moderniste), ed by Nathalie Roelens and Wanda Strauven (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2001), pp 77-86