Faculty

Adriana Craciun, Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Davis

(951) 827-1780
adriana.craciun@ucr.edu
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Adriana Craciun (B.A. Puget Sound; M.A., Ph.D. UC Davis) specializes in eighteenth and nineteenth-century British literature and culture. Her published work to date has emphasized gender and the history of sexuality, French Revolutionary politics, women’s writing, Romanticism and Gothic. She is the author of Fatal Women of Romanticism (Cambridge, 2003) and British Women Writers and the French Revolution: Citizens of the World (Palgrave, 2005). In addition to publishing numerous essays in journals such as PMLA, European Romantic Review, New Literary History, Prose Studies and Nineteenth-Century Contexts, she has edited several Romantic-era novels (by Charlotte Smith, Charlotte Dacre, Sophia King) and feminist works of non-fiction (by Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson). She also co-edited (with Kari Lokke) the collection of essays Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution (SUNY), and has contributed essays to several other collections of essays, including the new Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry (2008).

Her current work builds on her interest in print culture, to examine the role played by print and authorship in Arctic exploration, from the late seventeenth century through the late nineteenth century. Her new book in progress, titled Northwest Passages: Authorship, Exploration, Disaster, traces a genealogy of the circulation of  multidisciplinary texts (printed, manuscript, cartographic, visual) about and in the Arctic, and the often disastrous effects these texts had on the pursuit of the Northwest Passage and the North Pole.  Drawing on this new work that considers emerging disciplinary boundaries, she is also co-organizing a two-year international series of events titled "The Disorder of Things: Predisciplinarity and the Divisions of Knowledge, 1700-1850." The first event in this series will be the June 2009 conference, "Romantic Disorder: Predisciplinarity and the Divisions of Knowledge 1750-1850," hosted by Birkbeck College, University of London and the Institute of English Studies (London).