Talk by Yasmin Solomonescu on Reimagining Persuasion

Yasmin Solomonescu
University of Notre Dame

Yasmin Solomonescu is Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She is most recently the author of Reimagining Persuasion in British Romantic Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026) and, previously, of John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination (London: Palgrave, 2014). She has co-edited Persuasion after Rhetoric in the Eighteenth Century and Romanticism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024), which won the 2024 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize.

Respondents:

Daniel M. Gross

Professor of English, University of California, Irvine

Carey Seal

Associate Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies, University of California, Davis