Brian Glover

Assistant Professor
252-328-1395
Bate 2149
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 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.