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Bonnie Gunzenhauser
Associate Professor of English and Department Chair

Roosevelt University
Department of Literature and Languages

               
Office Chicago Campus Schaumburg Campus
Room 728 (Auditorium Bldg.)
Phone 312-341-2074
Hours Fall 2009: T 3:15-4:15, Th 3:15-4:15, and by appointment Please email if you'd like to schedule an appointment.
E-mail bgunzenhauser@roosevelt.edu
Fall 2009 Teaching
ENG 220: Introduction to Literary Analysis (TTh 2:00-3:15)

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Research Interests
British Romanticism, with emphasis on the history and sociology of reading practices; Romantic-era journalism and educational writings; the history of the novel
Education
Ph.D. University of Chicago
M.A. University of Chicago
B.A. Luther College
Recent Publications (selected)
*Reading in History: New Methodologies from the Anglo-American Tradition.* Monograph forthcoming in Pickering & Chatto's series in History of the Book (2010).

"'A very rational animal': William Hazlitt and the Romantic-Era Reading Public." Forthcoming in *Keats-Shelley Journal* (2008).

"Reading the Intersections of Law and Literature in the Eighteenth Century." Eighteenth-Century Studies, 40.2 (2007).

"Readerly Agency and the Discourse of History in Walter Scott's *The Antiquary*. In Romanticism: Comparative Discourses. Eds. Diane Long Hoeveler and Larry Peer. Ashgate Press, 2006.

Historicizing Communities of Reading in the Long Eighteenth Century: A Report from the Classroom. College Literature 31:1 (2004).

New Approaches to the Long Eighteenth Century. Co-authored with Wolfram Schmidgen. College Literature 31:1 (2004).

Re-Viewing Romantic Writers and Readers: Using Samuel Johnson to Contextualize Romantic Ideology. Johnsonian Newsletter, 2004.

Reading the Rhetoric of Resistance in William Cobbett's Two-Penny Trash. Prose Studies 25:1 (2002): 84-101. Reprinted in Romantic Periodicals and Print Culture. Ed. Kim Wheatley. London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2003: 84-101.
Courses Taught
ENG 318/418: Mass Media and the Literary Marketplace, 1700-1900
ENG 314/414: The Rise of the British Novel
ENG 309: Austen on Page and Screen
ENG 315/415: Eighteenth-Century British Women Writers
ENG 312/412: British Romanticism
ENG 402: Topics in Literary and Critical Theory
ENG 220: Introduction to Literary Analysis
ENG 465: Literary Theory and Criticism
ENG 100: Basic Writing Practice
Links
RU English Graduate Student Program & Information (http://www.roosevelt.edu/english/handbook.htm)
Voice of the Shuttle: an excellent site for literary research (http://vos.ucsb.edu/)
Literary Resources on the Net (http://http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/)
The Newberry Library (http://www.newberry.org/newberryhome.html)
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