Brian Glover

Assistant Professor
252-328-1395
Bate 2121
gloverb@ecu.edu

About

Brian Glover specializes in the history of the novel, with special attention to eighteenth-century Britain and media theory. His current project investigates the 1950 publication of James Boswell’s journals in light of both Boswell’s eighteenth-century conditions and the desires of the twentieth-century editors, from the post-print perspective of twenty-first-century media theory. He is also interested in ecocriticism, memoir, and literature of the U.S. South.

Education

  • B.A. Amherst College
  • M.A. University of Virginia
  • Ph.D. University of Virginia

Research Interests

  • History of the Novel
  • The Public Sphere and Print Culture
  • 18th-Century British Literature
  • Memoir
  • Ecocritism
  • Southern Literature

Courses Taught

  • ENGL 6155: British Literature After 1800
  • ENGL 6151: British Literature Before 1800
  • ENGL 4530/6575: Special Topics Seminar: Romanticism Now!
  • ENGL 4125: The Romantic Period
  • ENGL 4121: Eighteenth-Century Literature
  • ENGL 4000: Introduction to Literary Theory
  • ENGL 3140: Introduction to Poetry
  • ENGL 3010: History of British Literature, 1700-1900
  • ENGL 2420: The Short Story
  • ENGL 2201: Writing About the Disciplines: Arts and Humanities
  • ENGL 2201: Writing About the Disciplines: Multidisciplinary
  • ENGL 2201: Writing About the Disciplines: Natural Sciences
  • ENGL 2100: Major British Writers
  • ENGL 2000: Interpreting Literature
  • ENGL 1500: Studies in Words, Images, and Ideas
  • ENGL 1200: Composition
  • ENGL 1100: Foundations of College Writing I

Selected Publications and Presentations

  • “The Boswell Club of Chicago, 1942-1973.” Forthcoming in The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 25, 2025.
  • “Killing Time and Filling Space: Epistolary Experience in the James Boswell-William Johnson Temple Correspondence.” Forthcoming in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 65:3, 2024.
  • “James Howell’s Familiar Letters, Print, and History.” Early Modern Literary Studies 22:2 (2022), 1-17.
  • “The Boswell Papers and the Mediated Meaning of Place.” CounterText 8:2 (August 2022), 283–300.
  • “‘Nor Can We Give The Whole Account Of Any One Thing Whatever’: An Eighteenth-Century Window to Object-Oriented Ecocriticism in a Sermon by Joseph and Thomas Warton and The Theology of Joseph Butler.” Green Letters 22:3 (Fall 2018), 236-246.
  • “‘Evidence’: Garth Risk Hallberg’s City on Fire, the Gutenberg Parenthesis, and Generation X at Midlife.” Critique 59:5 (Fall 2018), 519-535.
  • “De-Located Yankees: David Sedaris and Growing Up Northern in the South, 1965-1983.” Southern Cultures 24:2 (Summer 2018), 5-20.