CURRICULUM VITAE
ANDREW WARREN
Assistant Professor of English
Harvard University
Department of English – Barker Center
12 Quincy Street – Cambridge, MA 02138
phone: (617) 495-8441 – fax: (617) 496-8737
[email protected]
Education
Ph.D. in English, University of California, Irvine, September 2009
M.A. in English, University of California, Irvine, June 2004
B.A. in Philosophy with Honors, Dartmouth College, June 2001
Honors and Fellowships
• Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Visiting Fellow – Spring 2013
• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science – University of Tokyo, Kaken Grant, Summer 2011
• New Faculty Fellow Award (2010-2012; offer declined), American Council of Learned Societies
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Tsing Hua University of Taiwan, Department of Foreign Literatures,
February – July 2010
• U.C. Irvine Chancellor’s Club Fund for Excellence Dissertation Fellowship, 2009 (campus-wide competition)
• North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Competitive Travel Bursary, August 2008
• U.C. Irvine Summer Research Initiative Grant to build the “Mapping Romantic Orientalism” Website, June 2008
• U.C. Irvine Humanities Research Grant for study at the James Joyce Archives, National Library of Ireland, 2005
• Conference Travel Grant, U.C. Irvine Department of English, Summer 2004
• Pre-Doctoral Humanities Fellowship, U.C. Irvine 2002-2008
• Honors Thesis in Philosophy, Dartmouth College
• Dartmouth Ethics Institute Research Grant for study at the Foucault Archives, IMEC, Paris, France
Book Manuscript (under contract with Cambridge University Press)
The Orient and the Young Romantics — The project is an examination of the trope of the Orient in the poetry of
Shelley, Byron and Keats, read through their radical political, philosophical and poetic commitments. Close readings
of precursors such as Southey and Coleridge, and political thinkers such as Montesquieu and Rousseau, reveal two
things: first, that the problematic of solipsism is generative of the Young Romantics’ literary engagements with the
Near East; and second, that these poets are in a sense “postcolonial” critics of Orientalism avant la lettre.
Current Research - My new book project, Romantic Entanglements, examines the trope of entanglement across the
long eighteenth century. If in Enlightenment discourses—from empiricist philosophies of mind, to political and
economic theory, to medicine and the sciences of life—entanglement is most often used as a metaphor to describe
confusion or metaphysical extravagance, in the Romantic era entanglement becomes a self-consciously employed
concept used to explore a range of issues. The term “entanglement” comes from the Old Norse (tang) for a kind of
seaweed. In Middle English it became primarily a social or legal term; someone “entangled” someone else by
encumbering, hampering or embarrassing them in human affairs—legal, financial, social. Entanglement thereby
implies a connection both material and immaterial, and that also does not form a unity. It is more often a kind of
burden, a half-unwanted but seemingly necessary connection; it therefore registers an anxiety or unease largely absent
from a more settled or conventional notion such as “Wholeness” or “Organic Unity." Authors considered include
Laurence Sterne, John Locke & David Hume, Wordsworth & Coleridge, Shelley & Keats, Schelling, and a range of
writers working in other disciplines, such as the Edinburgh physician Robert Whytt, and the theologian Edward
Stillingfleet.
Publications and Reviews
• “On the Uses and Abuses of Theory (for Life),” Romantic Pedagogies in the Romantic Praxis Series (forthcoming)
• “Theory for Romanticism,” short report in European Romantic Review (June 2014)
• “Coleridge, Philosophy, Orient,” forthcoming chapter in Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient: Cultural
Negotiations, David Vallins, Kaz Oishi, and Seamus Perry (eds.) (Continuum, 2013)
• “Community Organizing and Narrative Modeling in Infinite Jest and The Pale King,” Studies in the Novel, special
issue on David Foster Wallace as Novelist, ed. Marshall Boswell. 44:4 (Winter 2012); a revised version will appear
in David Foster Wallace and 'The Long Thing' (Bloomsbury, 2014).
• “Designing and ‘Undrawing’ Veils: Anxiety and Authorship in Radcliffe’s The Italian,” The Eighteenth Century:
Theory and Interpretation (forthcoming, Winter 2013)
• “How to Listen to ‘Sirens’: Narrative Distraction at the Ormond Hotel,” James Joyce Quarterly (forthcoming)
• “Unentangled Intermixture: Love and Materialism in Shelley’s Epipsychidion,” Keats-Shelley Journal 59 (2010),
78-95
• Entries on “David Foster Wallace,” “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,” and “Girl with Curious Hair.”
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers and their Work. Eds. Geoff Hamilton and Brian Jones (New York: Facts on
File, 2010)
• Review of Tilottama Rajan’s Romantic Narrative, Keats-Shelley Journal 60 (2012), 139-40
• Review of Michael Vicario’s Shelley’s Intellectual System and Its Epicurean Background, for the Keats-Shelley
Journal 56 (2008), 174-76
Academic Conferences & Invited Talks
• “Unperplexing Bliss: Keats’s Lamia,” Department of English Speaker Series, UMass Boston (November 2013)
• David Foster Wallace’s Pale King; Readings in the Parlor, Harvard (November 2013)
• Organizer, “Theory for Romanticism,” Roundtable at NASSR 2013; “Romantic Entanglements,” Theories for
Romanticism panel
• "Romantic Entanglements," Romantic Realignments Seminar, Oxford University (March 2013)
• "Entangled Enlightenments: from Hume to Sterne," Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of
Edinburgh (Feb 2013)
• "Romantic Entanglements: Sterne, Hume, Blair and Shelley," at the Scottish Romanticism Group, University of
Glasgow (February 2013)
• “Free Indirect Gothic,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (Neuchatel, Switz – August 2012)
• “Shelley’s Leveling Sands,” ACLA forum on “Romantic Catastrophe,” mod. by Jacques Khalip (March 2012)
• “Byron’s Gothic Orient,” International Conference on Romanticism; panel on “Poets as Objects of Representation,”
chair (November 2011)
• “The Form First,” New Faculty Lunch, Harvard University (October 2011)
• “Rousseau’s Foreigners,” Special Session on “Mobility & the Foreign,” North American Society for the Study of
Romanticism (August 2011)
• “Coleridge, Philosophy, Orient,” Coleridge, Romanticism, and the Orient: Cultural Negotiations; JSPS and Friends
of Coleridge; panel on “Blake in the Orient,” moderator (Kobe, Japan, July 2011)
• “Lyric Ease,” British Women Writers Conference (April 2011)
• “Southey’s ‘High Romantic’ Orient,” The International Conference on Romanticism (November, 2010)
• “What Is Romanticism Responsible for?” Long Eighteenth Century and Romanticism Colloquium, Harvard
University (September, 2010)
• Organizer, Colloquium on Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49; “A Great Unanchored Wig: Order and Disorder
in Pynchon’s Sentences,” National Tsing Hua University (June 2010)
• “Mapping Blake’s Jerusalem, Digitally,” Digital Romanticisms Conference, University of Tokyo (May 2010)
• Chair, Ancient and Modern Relations, Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association Conference (Nov. 2009)
• “Unperplexing Bliss: the Orient in Keats’s Poetics,” Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association
Conference (November 2008)
• “Shelley’s Adjectival Human: Knowledge and Problematization, 1815-17,” North American Society for the Study of
Romanticism Conference (Tilottama Rajan’s “Archaeologies of Knowledge” Special Session, Toronto, August 2008)
• “Pedagogy, Bilingualism, Empowerment: Translating Roberto Bolaño’s Los Perros Románticos at Santa Ana High
School,” California Association of Freirean Educators Conference (Paolo Freire Institute, UCLA, May 2008)
• “Feral Infants and the Outlandish Growth of Satire in Infinite Jest,” American Literature Association Conference
(May 2008)
• “’Unentangled Intermixture’: Love and Shelley’s Materialism,” American Comparative Literature Conference
(April 2008)
• “How to Listen to ‘Sirens’: Narrative and Event at the Ormond Hotel,” Bloomsday 100: the International James
Joyce Symposium (Dublin, June 2004)
Professional Service
• Freshman Adviser, Harvard College (2013-14)
• Fulbright Campus Evaluation Committee (2013)
• Advisory Committee, NASSR Conference 2013
• Advisory Board, Romantic Connections – NASSR Supernumerary Conference, University of Tokyo, 2014
Recent Courses (Harvard University):
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The Romantics: Fall 2013 (Graduate Seminar)
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The Comic Enlightenment: Spring 2012 & 2014
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Late Romanticism: Spring 2012 (Graduate Seminar)
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Poets (Common Grounds) - Narrative Poetry: Fall 2010, 2011 & Spring 2014
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David Foster Wallace & Environs: Fall 2011 & 2013
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British Women Poets: Spring 2011
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Wordsworth and the Shelleys: Spring 2011
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The Gothic Tradition: Fall 2010
Languages
• French: reading, writing, speaking near-fluency (lived in Paris, December 1999 to February 2000)
• Spanish: reading, writing, speaking near-fluency (lived in Buenos Aires, September 2006 to April 2007)
• German: reading, writing, speaking proficiency (lived in Stuttgart, August - September 2004)
• Latin: reading proficiency
• Mandarin Chinese: basic conversation (lived in Taipei, February-June 2010)
Editorial Work
• Research Assistant, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, ed. Robert Folkenflik (Modern Library, 2004)
• Aporia: the Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy, Editor (1999-2000)
Service
• McSweeney’s 826LA Drop-In Tutor and Weekly AP English Tutor at Oscar De La Hoya Animo Charter High
School, Downtown Los Angeles – 2007-9
• Humanities Out There, graduate coordinator - Santa Ana High School 2007-8
Academic Website Design
• Humanities Out There Program Website (UC-Irvine)
• Mapping Romantic Orientalism Website (long term project funded by UCI Summer Research Initiative Grant)
Professional Affiliations
• MLA (Modern Language Association)
• NASSR (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism)
• Keats-Shelley Association of America
• ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association)