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:
2019-20 Courses
- ENGL 200 001/6.0 History of Literature in English
- ENGL 290 001/3.0 Seminar in Literary Interpretation – Reading Sterne’s Tristram Shandy
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)