Christopher Fanning

Associate Professor

PhD City University of New York

613-533-6000, ext. 74440
christopher.fanning@queensu.ca

Office: Watson Hall, Room 536
Office Hours:

2018-19 Courses

• ENGL 200 002/6.0 History of Literature in English
• ENGL 431 002-3/3.0 Topics in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature – Literature in the Age of Sensibility and the Sublime

Research Interests

• Restoration and eighteenth-century poetry and prose
• satire
• the sublime
• the encyclopaedia
• print culture
• Laurence Sterne
• Jonathan Swift
• Alexander Pope

Recent Publications

“The Encyclopedic Ethos: Authorship in British Encyclopedias of the Eighteenth Century,” Age of Johnson 21 (2011): 123–42.

“Sterne and Print Culture,” The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne, ed. Thomas Keymer (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009), 125–41.“The Scriblerian Sublime,” Studies in English Literature 45.3 (2005): 647–67.

Current Supervisions

Katie Hunt, Daniel Krahn (about students)