Emily West

Contact:
west2@hawaii.edu


Publications


“Technology, Temporality, and Queer Form in Horace Walpole’s Gothic”
British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830. Ed. Kristin M. Girten and Aaron R. Hanlon. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2023.

“Technologies of Epistolarity and Embodiment in John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 60, no. 4 (Winter 2019): 375-398

“‘Most grateful deceptions of the sight’: Optical Technologies in Restoration England.”
Early Modern Spectatorship: Interpreting English Culture, 1500-1780. Ed. Ronald Huebert and David McNeil. Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019.

“Animal Things, Human Language, and Children’s Education”
Eighteenth-Century Fiction 31, no. 1 (Fall 2018): 45-76

“Labor and the Literary Technologies of Mechanization in the British Cotton Industry”
Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 17, no. 4 (Fall 2017): 49-74


Areas of Interest


Eighteenth-century literature, material culture and textual materiality, gender and sexuality studies, embodiment, history of science and technology, children’s literature and childhood


Courses


Spring Semester 2025
  • ENG-320: Intro to English Studies
  • ENG-332: Restoration/18th-C British Literature

Fall Semester 2024
  • ENG-320: Intro to English Studies
  • ENG-382: Gender, Sexuality & Literature

Spring Semester 2024
  • ENG-332: Restoration/18th-C British Literature
  • ENG-730X: Literature & History: Libertinism

Fall Semester 2023
  • ENG-383: Children’s Literature
  • ENG-432: Studies: 18th Century Literature: Disability and 18th Century Literature

Spring Semester 2023
  • ENG-332: Restoration/18th-Century British Literature
  • ENG-440: Single Author: Aphra Behn