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Peter JarosAssociate Professor of English, Department Chair of English

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peter.jaros@fandm.edu

Education

Ph.D. English, Northwestern University, 2009.
 
M.A. English, Northwestern University, 2002.
 
B.A. Psychology, magna cum laude, Yale University, 1998.

Research

Early and Antebellum American Literature and Culture, Transatlantic Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Critical Theory, Print Culture, Law and Literature

Grants & Awards

NEH Post-Doctoral Fellow, Library Company of Philadelphia (2013-14)
 
Consortium Summer Faculty Fellow, McNeil Center for Early American Studies (2011)
 
Honorable Mention, Richard Beale Davis Prize (for the best article published in Early American Literature) (2009-10)
 
Fellow, Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Foundation (2007-09)
 
Phi Beta Kappa (1998)

Publications

鈥淭he Faculties of Law: Robert Montgomery Bird's Sheppard Lee as Legal Fiction.鈥� (forthcoming).
 
鈥淎 Double Life: Personifying the Corporation from Dartmouth College to Poe.鈥� Poe Studies (forthcoming).
 
鈥淕ood Names: Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa.鈥� The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 54.1 (2013).
 
鈥淧ersonating Stephen Burroughs: The Apparitions of a Public Specter.鈥� Early American Literature 44.3 (2009).
 
Translation (from French): Jean-Luc Nancy and Emmanuel Alloa, 鈥淭he Real Outside Is 鈥榓t the Heart鈥� of the Inside: An Interview with Jean-Luc Nancy.鈥� Atopia 9 (2006). www.atopia.tk.

Presentations

Selected Recent Presentations

鈥淎 Creature of Law in the Wilderness: Irving鈥檚 Astoria.鈥� C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. Chapel Hill. 15 March 2014.

鈥�Sheppard Lee and Supernatural Law.鈥� Modern Language Association. Marriott Chicago Downtown. Chicago. 10 January 2014.

鈥淔acing History: Charles Brockden Brown, Physiognomics, and Temporality.鈥� The Revolutionary Atlantic: Acts of Alienation and Sedition, 1780-1830 (Charles Brockden Brown Society Biennial Conference). Universit茅 Paris IV鈥擲orbonne. Paris. 12 October 2013.

鈥淔ace Time: Charles Brockden Brown and the Temporalities of Physiognomics鈥�; Panel Organizer: 鈥淭he Temporal Turn in Early American Perspective.鈥� Society of Early Americanists. Hyatt Regency. Savannah. 1 March 2013.

鈥淐ollective Action, Corporate Fiction, and The Confidence-Man.鈥� Modern Language Association. Sheraton Boston. Boston, 3 January 2013.

鈥淐rises of Personhood: Sheppard Lee and the 1837-38 Pennsylvania Convention.鈥� American Studies Association. Puerto Rico Convention Center. San Juan, PR, 17 November 2012.

鈥淭he Antebellum Corporation in Literature and Law: A Chapter in the Prehistory of Citizens United.鈥� Franklin & Marshall Alumni College 2012. Lancaster, PA, 1 June 2012. (Invited lecture.)

鈥淗ow to Kill a Corporation: Corporate Mortality in Law and Verse鈥�; Panel Organizer: 鈥淐orporate Fictions.鈥� American Literature Association. Hyatt Regency. San Francisco, 26 May 2012.

鈥淓quiano, the Author.鈥� American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Vancouver, Canada, 17-20 March 2011.

鈥淟avater and Levinas on Traits that Withdraw.鈥� Fading Figures/Figures of Fading Colloquium. Northwestern University. Evanston, IL, 14 May 2010.

鈥淭he Swiss Atlantic? Another Look at the 鈥楢tlantic World.鈥欌�� Society of Early Americanists. Hamilton, Bermuda, 4-7 March 2009.

鈥淭he Character of the Citizen: Physiognomy and Republicanism in the Early American Public Sphere.鈥� Pennsylvania Historical Association. Bethlehem, PA, 16 October 2008.

鈥溾�楩airly exposed to public view鈥�: Picturing Stephen Burroughs.鈥� American Literature Association. Hyatt Regency. San Francisco, 24 May 2008.

鈥淎rresting Characters: Physiognomy and Interruption鈥�; Panel Chair: 鈥淪hady Characters and Sketchy Science.鈥� International Conference on Narrative. University of Texas at Austin. Austin, 2 May 2008.

Course Information

CNX 135: America from Outside

ENG 206: Studies in American Literature 1

ENG 207: Studies in American Literature 2

ENG 372: Reading Characters in American Literature

ENG 461: Making Persons in American Literature