Joanna M Picciotto, Associate Professor

Office: 413 Wheeler

Phone: 510-643-5127

Email: jpicciotto@berkeley.edu

Areas of Interest

Restoration & 18th-Century British Literature.

Current Research

Professor Picciotto also works on literature and science.

Selected Publications and Papers Delivered

Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England, forthcoming in Fall 2009 from Harvard University Press


“Breaking through the Mode: The Journeys of Celia Fiennes,” Literature Compass (forthcoming)

“The Public Person and the Play of Fact,”  Representations (forthcoming)

“Reforming the Garden: The Experimentalist Eden and Paradise Lost,” English Literary History 72 (1), Spring 2005

"Scientific Investigations" in A Concise Companion to Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature, ed. Cynthia Wall (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004)

"Progress and the Space of Prehistory," Thresholds 25, 2003

"Investigating Early Modern Curiosity" (Review Essay) Clio 31 (4) Summer 2002

"Optical Instruments and the 18th-century Observer," Eighteenth-Century Studies 29 2000

Office Hours

Thurs 2-4