Professional Bio
Peter DeGabriele specialises in the study of eighteenth century literature and culture, with a particular emphasis on the relation between literary texts and the political philosophy and epistemology of the period. He is currently working on a book which considers questions of sovereignty and witnessing as they arise in eighteenth-century fiction and political philosophy. He has had an article on Daniel Defoe and Thomas Hobbes published in ELH, and was also co-editor of a special issue of Umbr(a): A Journal of the Unconscious on the concept of semblance.
Education:
Ph.D. 2009 The University at Buffalo-SUNY
M.A. 2006 The University at Buffalo-SUNY
B.A. 2002 The Australian National University
Teaching Interests:
Eighteenth-Century British Literature; Literary Theory
Recent Courses:
- The Polite Eighteenth Century
- The Eighteenth-Century British Novel
- Eighteenth Century Literature: Satire and Sentiment
- Political Philosophy and Eighteenth Century Fiction
Publications
“Intimacy, Survival, and Resistance: Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year,” ELH, 77.1, 2010.
Editor (With Sol Pelaez and Shane Herron) of “Semblance,” a special issue of Umbr(a): A Journal of the Unconscious, 2007.
