- Ph.D. Yale University, 2006
Areas of expertise
British romanticism, romantic to modern poetry, literature and philosophy, critical theory
BIO
A graduate of The University of Wisconsin-Madison (BA) and Yale University (MA, PhD), Eric Lindstrom (he/him) is a Professor of English at the University of Vermont. He teaches courses across literary studies and publishes scholarship in the areas of Romantic and Modern Poetry, Literary Theory, Ordinary Language Philosophy, and on the novels of Jane Austen. He is the author of over thirty essays and reviews, and editor of two scholarly special journal issues: Stanley Cavell and the Event of Romanticism; and Ostensive Moments and the Romantic Arts. He is currently co-editing for Routledge an historical companion on Lyric in the Long Nineteenth Century, and a proposed new Modern Language Association volume on teaching Romantic Poetry in the twenty-first century. His first book, Romantic Fiat: Demystification and Enchantment in Lyric Poetry, was published in 2011 by Palgrave. A second book, Jane Austen and Other Minds: Ordinary Language Philosophy in Literary Fiction, appeared with Cambridge University Press in 2022. He is currently working to finish a third book project, James Schuyler and the Poetics of Attention: Romanticism Inside-Out, which would be the first book-length critical study of The New York School poet, diarist, and art critic James Schuyler.
Prof. Lindstrom’s recent and upcoming courses at UVM include Lit Theory, Jane Austen, Frankenstein and Climate Change, Romantic Poetry and Poetics, Modern Poetry, The New York School Poets, and Criticism after Theory.
He is interested in working with prospective graduate students in these areas as well as others, including: Ecological Humanities; British nature writing; phenomenology (especially Merleau-Ponty); later Nineteenth Century British poetry and fiction; French Theory (especially Barthes and Serres); Queer Theory (especially Sedgwick); Russian Formalism as practiced by Viktor Shklovsky; and the history and practice of criticism.
Courses
- Jane Austen
- Romantic Poetry & Poetics
- Romanticism: Writing the Self
- British Literature
- Literary Theory
- Critical Approaches to Lit
- Elizabeth Bishop & Mod. Poetry
- Modern Poetry
- Poetics and Narrative Theory
- Themes,Genres,Folklore: Taste & Judgment
- British Romantic Poetry
Publications
Bio
A graduate of The University of Wisconsin-Madison (BA) and Yale University (MA, PhD), Eric Lindstrom (he/him) is a Professor of English at the University of Vermont. He teaches courses across literary studies and publishes scholarship in the areas of Romantic and Modern Poetry, Literary Theory, Ordinary Language Philosophy, and on the novels of Jane Austen. He is the author of over thirty essays and reviews, and editor of two scholarly special journal issues: Stanley Cavell and the Event of Romanticism; and Ostensive Moments and the Romantic Arts. He is currently co-editing for Routledge an historical companion on Lyric in the Long Nineteenth Century, and a proposed new Modern Language Association volume on teaching Romantic Poetry in the twenty-first century. His first book, Romantic Fiat: Demystification and Enchantment in Lyric Poetry, was published in 2011 by Palgrave. A second book, Jane Austen and Other Minds: Ordinary Language Philosophy in Literary Fiction, appeared with Cambridge University Press in 2022. He is currently working to finish a third book project, James Schuyler and the Poetics of Attention: Romanticism Inside-Out, which would be the first book-length critical study of The New York School poet, diarist, and art critic James Schuyler.
Prof. Lindstrom’s recent and upcoming courses at UVM include Lit Theory, Jane Austen, Frankenstein and Climate Change, Romantic Poetry and Poetics, Modern Poetry, The New York School Poets, and Criticism after Theory.
He is interested in working with prospective graduate students in these areas as well as others, including: Ecological Humanities; British nature writing; phenomenology (especially Merleau-Ponty); later Nineteenth Century British poetry and fiction; French Theory (especially Barthes and Serres); Queer Theory (especially Sedgwick); Russian Formalism as practiced by Viktor Shklovsky; and the history and practice of criticism.
Courses
- Jane Austen
- Romantic Poetry & Poetics
- Romanticism: Writing the Self
- British Literature
- Literary Theory
- Critical Approaches to Lit
- Elizabeth Bishop & Mod. Poetry
- Modern Poetry
- Poetics and Narrative Theory
- Themes,Genres,Folklore: Taste & Judgment
- British Romantic Poetry
Publications
Associations and Affiliations
Associations and Affiliations
- Modern Language Association (MLA)
- North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR)
- International Conference on Romanticism (ICR)
- WordsworthColeridge Association; The American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
- Keats-Shelley Association of America
- Association of Literary Scholars and Critics