Dwight D. Codr
Associate Professor, Department of English
University of Connecticut, Storrs
Date of first appointment: August 2011
(Revised April 19, 2016)
Department of English
University of Connecticut
215 Glenbrook Road, U-4025
Storrs, CT 06269-4025
(607) 227-3687
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Spring 2006
M.A. Spring 2002
B.A. Spring 1998
Cornell University
Cornell University
University of Iowa
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Sp. 2015-present
Associate Professor University of Connecticut, Storrs
Fall 2011-Sp. 2015
Assistant Professor University of Connecticut, Storrs
Sp. 2006-Sp. 2011
Assistant Professor Tulane University
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature, History of Finance and Economics,
Political Economy, Religion and Capitalism, Disability Studies, Rise of the Novel, Daniel Defoe
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Raving at Usurers: Anti-Finance and the Ethics of Uncertainty in England, 1690-1750
(University of Virginia Press, 2016)
Articles
“‘Hairs less in sight’: Meteors, Sneezes, and the Problem of Meaning in The Rape of the Lock.”
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 45 (2016): 175-196.
“Arresting Monstrosity: Polio, Frankenstein, and the Horror Film.” PMLA, 129:2 (March 2014):
171-187.
“‘Various Adventures and Strange Turns of Fortune’: John Law and Finance in Popular
Culture.” Global Economies, Cultural Currencies of the Eighteenth Century, ed. Michael
Rotenberg-Schwartz (AMS Press, 2012). 175-196.
“‘Expectation and Amendment maketh me to become an usurer’: Usury, Providentialism, and
the Age of Projects.” Religion and the Age of Enlightenment, 1:1 (Spring 2010). 147-169.
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“‘A failing voice endeavoured, in vain, to articulate’: Sense and Disability in the Novels of
Elizabeth Inchbald.” Philological Quarterly, 87: 3&4 (Spring and Fall 2009). 359-388.
Articles In Process
“Money and Religion.” Cultural History of Money in the Enlightenment. Ed. Christine Desan.
London: Bloomsbury Press.
“‘We shall be monsters, cut off from all the world’: Mary Shelley and Disability Studies”
(Forthcoming, Critical Insights: Mary Shelley, Grey House Publishing)
“‘The total market value of everything owned’: Piketty and the Presuppositions of Political
Economy” (Forthcoming, Common-Place 16:3).
Book Reviews and other Miscellaneous Publications
“Lillo, George.” The Wiley Blackwell] Encyclopedia of British Literature 1660-1789. Volume 2.
Ed. Gary Day and Jack Lynch. (John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2015). 712-716.
“’That Cursed Itch of Play’: Prudence, Finance, and Gambling in Henry Fielding.” Abstract of
paper delivered at The Workshop, Indiana University, Bloomington. (July 2013). Web.
Gikandi, Simon. “Chapter Two: Intersections: Taste, Slavery, and the Modern Self.” Slavery and
the Culture of Taste. The Long Eighteenth (May 2013). Review. Web.
Robinson Crusoe’s Economic Man: A Construction and Deconstruction, eds. Ulla Grapard and
Gillian Hewitson. (Routledge, 2011). Digital Defoe 4:1 (Fall 2012). Review. Web.
McKeon, Michael. The Secret History of Domesticity. The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 44:1
(Autumn 2011). Review. 43-45.
Roach, Joe. “Chapter Four: Skin,” It. The Long Eighteenth (February 2008). Review. Web.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND ROUNDTABLES
Secularity, Commerce, Modernity: The Case of Samuel Jeake, Merchant of Rye (1652-1699)
-American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (March 2016)
Beyond Sentiment: Henry Mackenzie, Political Economy, and the Waste Book
-Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (October 2015)
‘The total value of everything owned’: Piketty and the Presuppositions of Political Economy
-American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (March 2015)
‘This terrible Vision’: Irony and the Unconscious in Defoe’s Works
-American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (March 2105)
‘Hairs less in Sight’: Commemoration and Interpretation in Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the
Lock
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-Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (September 2014)
Rationalizing Defoe: Robinson Crusoe and the Spiritual Basis of Desire
-American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (March 2014)
The Story of Usury and the End(s) of Capital
-American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies; Race and Empire Caucus (March 2014)
‘He who loses lays his hand upon a stone’: Gambling, Sacrifice, Anthropology
-Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (October 11-14, 2012)
Cultural Studies and the ‘Hockey Stick’ Graph in Eighteenth-Century Economic History
-American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies; Cultural Studies Caucus (March 2012)
Is Economic Historiography Useful for Humanist Studies of Eighteenth Century Economies?:
Douglass North, Joel Mokyr, and Cato’s Letters
-South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (February 2012)
‘An Arrangement for Futurity’: Primitive Society and Anticipatory Subjects
-South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (February 2011)
Victor Frankenstein’s Disabled Son
-South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (February 2010)
‘Literature’ as Trope in Cultural Studies
-Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Roundtable (October 2009)
Daniel Defoe and the Age of Projectiles
-Daniel Defoe Society (September 2009)
‘Expectation and amendment maketh me to become an Usurer’: Usury, Providence, and the Age
of Projects
-South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (February 2009)
‘Miss was in the Plot’: Sally Godfrey and the Rise of the Novel
-South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (February 2009)
Eighteenth-Century Collections Online: Cultural Studies and Corporate Information
-Modern Language Association Roundtable (December 2007)
Body Projects in the Time of the Projecting Humour: The Mystery of the Toilet in Eliza
Haywood’s Love in Excess
-British Women Writers Conference, University of Kentucky (April 2007)
‘Danger and Pain at Certain Distances’: Burke’s Aesthetics and Foreign Policy
-British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Oxford University (January 2007)
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‘Wand’ring in the Wilds of Future Being’: Samuel Johnson and the Sublime Object of
Temporality
-Western Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of San Francisco (Spring 2004)
The Darker Side: Rational and Irrational Predictive Practices in Defoe’s Fiction
-Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, SUNY Cortland (October 2002)
Spectacular Robots: Exotic Rationality and Eighteenth-Century Chess
-American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (April 2002)
Information and the Hands of God: The Dialectics of Speculation and Providence in EighteenthCentury Fiction
-Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (November 2001)
INVITED TALKS AND COLLOQUIA
The Accountant in the Ruins: The Man of Feeling, Bookeeping, and the Literary Fragment
-Columbia University Seminar in Eighteenth-Century European Culture (April 2016)
The Ethical Origins of the Financial Revolution in England: History, Historiography, and the
Meaning(s) of Usury
-Ethics of Debt Symposium (Iowa State University, September 2015)
The Whole World in his Hand: Daniel Fenning’s New System of Geography
-Department of English Book History Colloquium (April 2013)
Versions of Liberty: God, Guns, and Free Markets from Cato’s Letters to the Cato Institute
-Department of English Brown Bag Series (March 2013)
The Secret History of Resistance to Banking; or, if there was a financial revolution, apparently
no one told David Jones
-University of Connecticut Humanities Institute (November 2012)
‘That Cursed Itch of Play’: Prudence, Finance, and Gambling in Henry Fielding
-Bloomington Eighteenth-Century Studies Workshop, The Center for Eighteenth Century Studies
(May 2012)
Cinematic Monstrosity from Approximately 1916 to 1955: Polio, Frankenstein, and the Horror
Film
-Workshop on Disability Studies, Human Rights, and Humanitarianism, University of
Connecticut Human Rights Institute (March 2012)
Generations of Biters
-Money, Power, & Print: Studies in the Financial Revolution Colloquium (June 2008)
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Samuel Johnson and Speculation
-Early Modern Reading Group, Rice University (March 2008)
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
Editorial
LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory, Editor (Spring 2015-present)
Professional Associations
Modern Language Association
Daniel Defoe Society, Executive Board Member
American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
Northeast Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Junior Faculty Forum; Co-Convener (Fall 2012-Spring 2014)
Department
Undergraduate Enrichment Committee (Fall 2013-Spring 2015)
Search Committee (Fall 2012-Spring 2013)
Organized visit by Assoc. Prof. Sean Moore, U. of New Hampshire (Spring 2013)
Seminars, Symposia, and Speakers Committee (Fall 2012-Spring 2013, Fall 2015-present)
Graduate Placement Committee (Fall 2011-present)
Graduate Admissions Committee (Fall 2011-present)
McPeek Essay Prize Committee (Fall 2011-Spring 2013)
2600 Committee (Fall 2011-Spring 2014, Fall 2015-Spring 2016)
Undergraduate Major Fair Representative (Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013)
AWARDS
2016 Mentorship Excellence Award (Conferred by the Office of Undergraduate Research)
2010 Pierce Butler Grant for Samuel Johnson Tercentenary Exhibit (Spring 2010)
2008 Early Modern Reading Group Honorarium (Rice University, March 2008)
2008 Deep South Regional Humanities Center (money secured for plenary lecture at area
conference)
2007 Committee on Research International Travel Grant
2005 Tulane Committee on Research Summer Grant
2003-2004 Andrew Mellon Dissertation Fellowship
2004 Cornell University Summer Research Fellowship
2002 Cornell School of Criticism and Theory Tuition Grant
1999-2000 Andrew Mellon Fellowship
1999-2000 Sage Fellowship (Deferred until 2001)
1993-1998 Kuhl Shakespeare Prize, Thesis Prize, College Scholar, Full Tuition Scholarship
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