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Carrie Shanafelt

Carrie
Shanafelt

Lecturer in English
carrie.shanafelt@yu.edu
Ph.D. in English, CUNY Graduate Center, 2011
M.A. in English, Case Western Reserve University, 2003
B.A. in Spanish and English, minor in Political Science, Case Western Reserve University, 2001

Carrie Shanafelt is an interdisciplinary scholar of literature and philosophy of the long eighteenth century in Great Britain and the Americas. Her research engages with eighteenth-century legal and economic theory, ethics, gender, sexuality, slavery, and aesthetics. She is the Philosophy reviews editor of the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Book:

Uncommon Sense: Jeremy Bentham, Queer Aesthetics, and the Politics of Taste (University of Virginia Press, 2022) 

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

鈥,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Revue d鈥櫭﹖udes benthamiennes 20 (2021)

鈥溾楢 World of Debt鈥: Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, The Wealth of Nations, and the End of Finance,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Eighteenth-Century Studies 55, no. 1 (2021), pp. 21-43

鈥淛eremy Bentham and the Aesthetics of Sexual Difference,鈥&苍产蝉辫;The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 61, no. 3 (2020), pp. 335-352

鈥淎gainst Rights: Jeremy Bentham on Sexual Liberty and Legal Reform,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory 31.3 (2020), pp. 203-221

鈥淥n Teaching Early Gothic Fiction and Non-Empiricist Aesthetics,鈥&苍产蝉辫;College English Association Forum 43.2 (2014), pp. 1-18

鈥淰icarious Sex and the Vulnerable Eighteenth-Century Reader,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory 24.4 (2013), pp. 261-277

Book Chapters:

鈥淒oubt,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, ed. Jack Lynch, Oxford Univ. Press (2022), pp. 567-581

鈥淭he 鈥楶lexed Artistry鈥 of Nabokov and Johnson鈥 Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists, ed. Anthony Lee (Clemson: Clemson Univ. Press, 2019), pp. 165-187

鈥淭he Rhetoric of Consensus: Hume and Fielding on Moral Sentiment鈥 David Hume: A Tercentenary Tribute, ed. Stanley Tweyman (Ann Arbor: Caravan, 2013), pp. 85-106

Other:

Review of Mattie Burkert, Speculative Enterprise: Public Theaters and Financial Markets in London, 1688-1763, in Eighteenth-Century Studies, 56.4 (2023), pp. 649-651

Review of Christopher Looby, ed., The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman and other Queer Nineteenth-Century Short Stories, in ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 12.1 (2022) 

Review of Katherine Binhammer, Downward Mobility: The Form of Capital and the Sentimental Novel, in ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 11.2 (2021) 

Review of Paul Kelleher, Making Love: Sentiment and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, in The Shandean 27 (2017), pp. 158-159

Review of Hannah Lavery, The Impotency Poem from Ancient Latin to Restoration Literature, in Renaissance Quarterly 69.2 (2016), pp. 796-798

carrie.shanafelt@yu.edu
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