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Kari Lokke
Professor of Comparative Literature
Ph.D., Washington University
Email: kelokke@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 530.752.8401
Office: 815 Sproul Hall
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Introduction
Professor Kari Lokke's research and teaching interests are strongly
interdisciplinary, combining philosophy, feminist theory, and the
literature of England, France and Germany. Earlier publications
explored the socio-political and cultural significance of the
aesthetics of sublimity and its double, the grotesque. She has also
published several articles on British women poets of the Romantic era.
The author of Gérard de Nerval: The Poet as Social Visionary (1987)
and co-editor with Adriana Craciun of Rebellious Hearts: British Women
Writers and the French Revolution (2001), she recently completed Tracing
Women's Romanticism: Gender, History and Transcendence
(2004) which explores landscapes of spiritual and aesthetic
transcendence in the novels of Germaine de Staël, Mary Shelley, Bettine
von Arnim, and George Sand. Teaching interests include English and
European Romanticisms, the Gothic, women writers, theory of myth,
philosophy of history, and aesthetics.
Research and Teaching Interests
- British and European Romanticism
- Women Writers
- The Gothic
- Aesthetics, the Sublime and Grotesque
- Theory of Myth
- Discourses of Enthusiasm and Fanaticism
Education:
- Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Washington University in St. Louis
- M.A., Comparative Literature, Washington University in St. Louis
- B.A., French and Comparative Literature, Indiana University
Selected Publications
- Gérard de Nerval: The Poet as Social Visionary (Lexington, KY: French Forum, 1987)
- "Dark Forgetfulness" and "The Intercession of Saint Monica": Charlotte Smith and Literary History," Women's Studies 27 (1998): 259-280.
- Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, co-ed. with Adriana Craciun (Albany: SUNY Press, 2001)
- "Children of Liberty": Idealist Historiography in Staël, Shelley, and Sand," PMLA, May 2003, Vol. 118.3, 502-20.
- Tracing Women's Romanticism: Gender, History, and Transcendence (London: Routledge, 2005)
Winner of the Jean-Pierre Barricelli Book Prize awarded by the International Conference on Romanticism
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Kari LokkeProfessor of Comparative Literature Email: kelokke@ucdavis.edu |
Introduction
Professor Kari Lokke's research and teaching interests are strongly
interdisciplinary, combining philosophy, feminist theory, and the
literature of England, France and Germany. Earlier publications
explored the socio-political and cultural significance of the
aesthetics of sublimity and its double, the grotesque. She has also
published several articles on British women poets of the Romantic era.
The author of Gérard de Nerval: The Poet as Social Visionary (1987)
and co-editor with Adriana Craciun of Rebellious Hearts: British Women
Writers and the French Revolution (2001), she recently completed Tracing
Women's Romanticism: Gender, History and Transcendence
(2004) which explores landscapes of spiritual and aesthetic
transcendence in the novels of Germaine de Staël, Mary Shelley, Bettine
von Arnim, and George Sand. Teaching interests include English and
European Romanticisms, the Gothic, women writers, theory of myth,
philosophy of history, and aesthetics.
Research and Teaching Interests
- British and European Romanticism
- Women Writers
- The Gothic
- Aesthetics, the Sublime and Grotesque
- Theory of Myth
- Discourses of Enthusiasm and Fanaticism
Education:
- Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Washington University in St. Louis
- M.A., Comparative Literature, Washington University in St. Louis
- B.A., French and Comparative Literature, Indiana University
Selected Publications
- Gérard de Nerval: The Poet as Social Visionary (Lexington, KY: French Forum, 1987)
- "Dark Forgetfulness" and "The Intercession of Saint Monica": Charlotte Smith and Literary History," Women's Studies 27 (1998): 259-280.
- Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution, co-ed. with Adriana Craciun (Albany: SUNY Press, 2001)
- "Children of Liberty": Idealist Historiography in Staël, Shelley, and Sand," PMLA, May 2003, Vol. 118.3, 502-20.
- Tracing Women's Romanticism: Gender, History, and Transcendence (London: Routledge, 2005)
Winner of the Jean-Pierre Barricelli Book Prize awarded by the International Conference on Romanticism