Assistant Professor, Department of English

Education:
PhD, MPhil, University of Cambridge
BJ, Carleton University

Areas of Expertise: British Romanticism; literature and science, especially 18^th-19^th-century theories of life and psychology

Book:

• John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination (2014)

Book in Progress:

• Romantic Persuasions: Rhetoric, Form, and Feeling, 1780-1830. Examining the transformation of theories and practices of persuasion in British Romantic-era literature.

Selected Recent Articles:

• “Percy Shelley’s Revolutionary Periods.” ELH, forthcoming.
• “ ‘A Plausible Tale’: William Godwin’s Things As They Are.” European Romantic Review, 2014.
• “Mute Records and Blank Legends: John Thelwall’s ‘Paternal Tears.’ ” Romanticism, 2010.
• “Articulations of Community in The Peripatetic.” John Thelwall: Radical Romantic and Acquitted Felon, 2009.

Edited Works:

• Co-editor, The Daughter of Adoption: A Tale of Modern Times, by John Thelwall (2013)
• Editor, John Thelwall: Critical Reassessments, Romantic Circles Praxis (2011)

Email: solomonescu.1@nd.edu
Webpage: english.nd.edu/people/faculty/solomonescu/