Alan Bewell
Professor of English

Teaching and Research Interests

Romanticism; Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature; Science, Medicine and Literature; Literature and Colonialism.

Degrees

B.A. (Simon Fraser), M.A., Ph.D. (University of California, Irvine)

Publications

Romanticism and Colonial Disease (Johns Hopkins, 1999);

Editor, Medicine and the West Indian Slave Trade (Pickering and Chatto, 1999);

Wordsworth and the Enlightenment (Yale, 1989).

Articles focused on the relationship between literature, medicine, and science, particularly within the context of British colonialism.

Current Research

Continuing work on the literary representation of disease. Currently writing a book on Romanticism and natural history.