Department of English, College of LAS, University of Illinois

Melissa Bailes

Graduate Student

Contact Information

Courses

ENGL 207: Romantic Literature and Culture, ENGL 206: Enlightenment Literature and Culture, ENGL 101: Intro to Poetry, ENGL 210: British Literature, 1798-present (TA), RHET 100, 101, & 104

Research Interests

18c. and 19c. British Literature, History of 18c. and 19c. Science, Enlightenment Philosophy, Women's and Gender Studies

Publications

Journal Articles

  • "Hybrid Britons: West Indian Colonial Identity and Maria Riddell's Natural History." European Romantic Review 20.2 (2009): 207-17.
  • "The Evolution of the Plagiarist: Natural History in Anna Seward's Order of Poetics." Eighteenth-Century Life 33.3 (2009): 106-27.