Amanda Berry

Assistant Professor
Literature

• Professor Berry teaches courses in British literature including the Romantic period. She also teaches courses in literary criticism including gender and sexuality studies. Her research and published work consider the relationship between literary texts, history, and other cultural phenomena. She has published articles on Edmund Burke’s ideas about British social order, human difference, and the sublime and Percy Shelley’s representation of intimate relationships between men as a crucial aspect of his endeavors to write drama. She is currently at work on a book entitled Rough Publick: Romanticism, Sexuality, and Writing, which considers Romantic responses to the advent of a thriving, complex public sphere in Britain.

• Degrees

  PhD, Duke University