James Robert Allard, Associate Professor

Office: GLN 145
Extension: 3531; Email: jallard@brocku.ca

Education:
PhD, University of Waterloo, 2002
MA, University of Waterloo, 1997
BA (Hons), Algoma University College/Laurentian University, 1996

Research Interests:
Romantic Literature and Culture
History of Medicine (especially surgery)
Body Studies/Corporeality Theories

Teaching Areas:
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture
Gothic Studies
Speculative Fiction

Selected Publications:
Romanticism, Medicine, and the Poet’s Body. The Nineteenth Century Series. Aldershot, Eng. & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007.

“The Eyes Have It: Seeing the Beautiful in Gray’s Anatomy.” Image and Imagery: Beauty and the Abject. Ed. Corrado J. A. Federici, Leslie Boldt-Irons, and Ernesto J. Virgulti. Peter Lang, 2007. 103-15.

“John Thelwall and the Politics of Medicine.” European Romantic Review 15 (2004): 73-87.

“Spectres, Specators, Spectacles: Matthew Lewis’ The Castle Spectre.” Gothic Studies 3 (2002): 246-61.