Celeste Langan, Associate Professor
Office: 425 Wheeler
Phone: 510-642-2753
Email: clangan@berkeley.edu
Areas of Interest
19th-Century British Literature. Poetry.Current Research
My current book project, "Post-Napoleonism: Imagining Sovereignty after 1799," is conceived as a story of "states and the man," and what it might mean that both territories and bodies are subject to seizures. My several theoretical interests--in media theory, disability studies, in Marx and in Lacan--inform my discussion of Coleridge, Scott, Byron, Hardy, Gance, and, of course, Napoleon.Selected Publications and Papers Delivered
"Pathologies of Communication from Coleridge to Schreber." South Atlantic Quarterly 102:1 (Winter 2003), p. 117-152.
"Mobility Disability." Public Culture 13:3 (Autumn 2001), p. 459-84.
"Understanding Media in 1805: Audiovisual Hallucination in The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Studies in Romanticism 40:1 (Spring 2001), p. 49-70.
Romantic Vagrancy: Wordsworth and the Simulation of Freedom. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Office Hours
Tuesdays, 9-10; Fridays 1:45-3:15 425 Wheeler Hall
