Joint PhD in Literary Studies / Theatre Studies in English

Graduate Faculty

University of Guelph
Wilfrid Laurier University

Kenneth Graham, BA (Royal Military College), MPhil, PhD (London).

Professor (1990).

E-mail: kwgraham@uoguelph.ca

Research Interests

Restoration and 18th Century literature, interdisciplinary studies; history of ideas; romantic reviewing; the Gothic; William Beckford; William Godwin.

Books

  • William Godwin Reviewed: a Reception History 1783-1834. New York: AMS, 2001.

  • Ed. and trans. Vathek with The Episodes of Vathek by William Beckford. Peterborough: Broadview Literary Texts, 2001.

  • The Politics of Narrative: Ideology and Social Change in William Godwin's Caleb Williams. New York: AMS, 1990.

  • Gothic Fictions: Prohibition/Transgression. New York: AMS, 1989.

  • Vathek and the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations. New York: AMS, 1989.

  • Man and Nature/L'Homme et la Nature, VI. Co-authored with Neal Johnson. Edmonton: Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1987.

Selected recent articles

  • "An Introduction to the Broadview edition of Vathek with the Episodes of Vathek." The Beckford Journal 7 (2001).

  • "Vathek with the Episodes of Vathek: The Role of the Suppressed 'Story of Alasi and Firouz.'" East-Central Intelligencer (2000).

  • "Intercultural Conflicts: Godwin and his Counter-Revolutionary Reviewers." Intercultural Encounters: Studies in English Literatures. Ed. Heinz Antor and Kevin L. Cope. Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 1999.

  • "Narrative Self-projection in Beckford's Portuguese Writings." Romantismo: Imagens de Portugal na Europa Romântica. 1998.

  • "Video in Literary Scholarship." Transactions of the Ninth International Congress on the Enlightenment: Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 347 (1996).

  • "Hegemony and Influence: Godwin and Counter-revolutionary Discourse." Transactions of the Ninth International Congress on the Enlightenment: Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 348 (1996).

  • "Video in Teaching and Scholarship." Interfaces: Image, Texte, Langage 10 (1996).

Awards

North American Scholar of the Jane Austen Society of North America.
Senior Member of Robinson College, University of Cambridge.
University of Guelph Faculty Association Teaching Award, 1995.
Exchange Professor, Universität Konstanz, Germany.