Daniel DeWispelare
Title — Assistant Professor of English
Office — Rome Hall, Room 763
Phone — (202) 994-6472
E-mail — dewispelare@gwu.edu
Areas of Expertise —
Eighteenth-Century and Nineteenth-Century Literature, especially Anglophone Romanticism(s) in a Global Context, the History of English Languages, Sociolinguistics, Dialect Writing, History of Literacy, Historiography, Translation Studies, and Literary and Critical Theory
Current Research
Textual Shibboleths: Anglophony, Authority, Authenticity, 1753-1832 (book manuscript in progress)
Criminal Sounds: Form, Genre, and Romantic-Era Dialect Dialogues (book manuscript in progress)
Related Links
www.periphrast.com
Education
Ph.D. (Comparative Literature and Literary Theory), University of Pennsylvania, 2011
M.A. (Comparative Literature and Literary Theory), University of Pennsylvania, 2007
B.A. summa cum laude, University of Colorado, 2005
Publications
Review of Srinivas Aravamudan’s Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel (University of Chicago Press, 2012). Forthcoming in Modern Philology.
“Spectacular Speech: Performing Language in the Late Eighteenth Century.” In Journal of British Studies. Vol. 51, No. 4 (October 2012).
“An Amateur’s Professional Devotion: Elizabeth Smith’s Translation of the Book of Job.” In Literature and Theology, Vol. 25, No. 2 (May 2011).
“Translation, Memory, Mastery: The Andrometer of Sir William Jones.” In Cabinet Magazine: A Quarterly of Art and Culture, No. 39 (Fall 2010).