Celeste Langan
Associate ProfessorC54 Hearst Field Annex
Tuesdays 9-11; by appointment
clangan@berkeley.edu
Specialties
Selected Publications and Papers Delivered
Publications:
"Education is Our Occupation." PMLA October 2011.
“The Medium of Romantic Poetry.” Co-authored with Maureen N. McLane. Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry. NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
“Venice.” In Romantic Metropolis: The Urban Scene of British Culture 1780-1840. NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
“Scotch Drink and Irish Harps: Mediations of the National Air.” In The Figure of Music in Nineteenth=Century British Poetry. Ashgate, 2005.
"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.
Papers:
"Under Arrest: Transport and Security (Excitation and Citation)" Plenary lecture, "Transporting Romanticism" Conference, Wellington, NZ, February 2017
"Mimesis, Diplomacy, Subversion: Taking Dictation in The Red and the Black." Vancouver, CA, January 2015.
Austerlitz and the Future of Propaganda.” Neuchatel, Switzerland, August 2012.
“The Ambiguity and/of Neutrality: Poetry and Free Speech circa 1800. ” UC Davis English Department, April 2012.
"Romantic Neutrality: Bullets, Bulletins, and Don Juan." Vancouver, CA, August 2010.
“Afterlives of Napoleon.” July 2011, Laramie, WY.
Current Research
Recent English Courses Taught
Fall, 2017
| Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
| 175/1 | Literature and Disability |
Novel Drama Poetry Film Literary Theory Special Topics |
| 246G/1 | Graduate Pro-seminar: Romantic Period |
Graduate Courses |
Spring, 2017
| Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
| H195B/2 | Honors Course |
Honors and Tutorial Courses |
Fall, 2016
| Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
| 121/1 | The Romantic Period |
British 18th-Century British 19th-Century Poetry |
| H195A/2 | Honors Course |
Literary Theory Honors and Tutorial Courses |
Spring, 2016
| Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
| 161/1 | Introduction to Literary Theory: Free Speech, In Theory |
Literary Theory |
Fall, 2015
| Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
| 165/4 | Special Topics: Longing and Belonging in Contemporary Writing |
American Literature World Literature Novel Poetry Special Topics |
| 175/1 | Literature and Disability |
Novel Poetry Literary Theory Special Topics |
Spring, 2015
| Course & Section | Course Name | Course Areas |
| 121/1 | The Romantic Period |
British 19th-Century Novel Poetry |
| 246G/1 | Graduate Proseminar: Romantic Period |
Graduate Courses |
University of California, Berkeley
English Department
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