
Lynn Festa
Professor of English
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About
Restoration & Eighteenth Century
Cross Cultural Contacts; Eighteenth Century Literature
"In my teaching, I try to give students a sense of what makes the eighteenth century exciting and relevant to our historical moment, but I also want them to see how deeply alien it was. This was a period whose technologies, belief systems, and social structures were completely unlike those that construct the modern world. Part of why I love teaching eighteenth century texts is because of that electric contact with a way of thinking that is so emphatically not our own."
Office / Office Hours
36 Union Street, Room 108, College Ave Campus
Awards and Affiliations
- Graduate Teaching Prize, Department of English, Graduate Student Association, University of Wisconsin, 2007
- Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2005-6
- James L. Clifford Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2005-06
- Co-Coordinator, Atlantic Studies Working Group, Center for Cultural Analysis, 2008-
Publications
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Fiction Without Humanity Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture
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- University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019
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The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialisms and Postcolonial Theory
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- Oxford Press, 2009
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Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
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- John Hopkins University Press, 2006
- "Person, Animal, Thing: The 1796 Dog Tax and the Right to Superfluous Things"
Eighteenth-Century Life 33.2, Spring 2009 - "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Tahitian Jouissance"
Romance Quarterly 54.4, 2007 - "Personal Effects: Wigs and Possessive Individualism in the Long Eighteenth Century"
Romance Eighteenth-Century Life 29.2, Spring 2005
Education
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
MA, University of Pennsylvania
BA, Yale University
Other Information of Interest
- "Lynn Festa: New Faculty Profile" by Michael McKeon
(Future Traditions Magazine, Issue 2)