Professor Anne Janowitz, BA (Reed), BA (Oxford) PhD (Stanford)
Professor
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 8555
email: a.f.janowitz@qmul.ac.uk
Research interests:
Anne Janowitz was born and raised in New York City. A former Assistant Editor at City Lights Books (San Francisco), she has taught at Smith College, Brandeis University, and Rutgers University in the United States. In 1994 she moved to the UK to become Reader in Romanticism at Warwick University. She joined Queen Mary in 1999. Professor Janowitz's work focuses on eighteenth-century and Romantic literary culture, and the history and theory of poetry and poetics. She is the author of England's Ruins: Poetry and the National Landscape (1990), Lyric and Labour in the Romantic Tradition (1998), Women Romantic Poets: Anna Barbauld and Mary Robinson (2004). She is presently at work on a study of the astral sublime, Stellar Poetics: Commonplaces of the Night Sky, which will be published in 2009. Since joining the staff at Queen Mary, she has been awarded Research Fellowships from the British Academy, the AHRC, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Professor Janowitz has recently supervised Dissertations on women's life-writing, William Blake, and British Antiquaries. She is interested in PhD projects in the history of poetry and poetics; on eighteenth-century science and literature and the history of ideas; on astronomy and literature; on topics in Romantic literature and ideas.
Publications:
'Women Romantic Poets: Anna Barbauld and Mary Robinson' by Anne Janowitz
(Recent publications)
'Rebellion, Revolution, Reform: America, France, and England in the Age of Romanticism', in The Cambridge History of Romanticism, ed by James Chandler (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
'Memoirs of a dutiful niece: Lucy Aikin and literary reputation', in Repossessing the Romantic Past, ed by Heather Glen and Paul Hamilton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
''What a rich fund of Images is treasured up here': Poetic Commonplaces of the Sublime Universe', Studies in Romanticism, 44 (Winter, 2005)
'The artifactual sublime: making London poetry', in Romantic Metropolis: The Urban Scene of British Culture, 1780–1840, ed by James Chandler and Kevin Gilmartin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)
'Adam Smith's Campaign Against the Sublime', The Wordsworth Circle (Summer 2004)
'Free, Familiar Conversation: Mrs Barbauld and the sociability of Dissent', in Romantic Sociability: Social Networks and Literary Culture in Britain, 1770-1840, ed by Clara Tuite and Gillian Russell (Cambridge University Press, 2002)