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Barrett Kalter

  • Associate Professor, English
  • Plan A Coordinator, English

Education

  • PhD, Rutgers University, 2004
  • BA, Hampshire College, 1996

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
ENGLISH 215-005 Introduction to English Studies TR 11:30am-12:45pm
ENGLISH 326-001 The Development of the Novel: Contemporary Horror TR 4pm-5:15pm
ENGLISH 703-001 Introduction to Graduate Studies in Literature F 1pm-1:50pm

Research Interests

  • Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature
  • Material Culture
  • The History of Historical Thought and the Historical Imagination

Selected Publications

Kalter, Barrett D. Modern Antiques: The Material Past in England, 1660-1780 Bucknell. 2012.
Kalter, Barrett D. “DIY Gothic: Thomas Gray and the Medieval Revival” ELH 70. (2003): 989-1019.

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