Brian Glover
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 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 2000: Interpreting Literature
- ENGL 1200: Composition
- ENGL 1100: Foundations of College Writing I
Selected Publications and Presentations
- “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.
- “Spectacle and Speculation on James Boswell’s German Tour, 1764.” SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 57:3 (Summer 2017), 561-581.
- “Hitting Home with the New Story Project: Teaching with the North Carolina Literary Review in North Carolina.” North Carolina Literary Review (Online 2016), 80-83.
- “Nobility, Visibility and Publicity in Colley Cibber’s Apology.” SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 42:3 (Summer 2002), 523-539.