Emily Rohrbach
Assistant Professor of English
University Hall Room 228
Telephone: (847) 491-5157
Fax: (847) 467-1545
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Emily Rohrbach (Ph.D. Boston University) teaches and writes about British Romanticism and aesthetic theory. Her book manuscript, Modernity's Mist: British Romanticism and the Poetics of Anticipation, examines the prevalence of anticipation in Romantic-period writing, focusing primarily on the work of John Keats, Jane Austen, and Lord Byron. She argues that these writers' formally diverse literary works share a distinctive poetics of “future anteriority” that enables them to “think” the present as history in a world whose future promised the unforeseen.
A former Junior Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and current Faculty Fellow at the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, she has published articles in European Romantic Review, The Keats-Shelley Journal, Revue d’Etudes Anglophones, SEL: Studies in English Literature, and Studies in Romanticism. She has recently guest-edited a special issue of the journal Studies in Romanticism on the topic “Reading Keats, Thinking Politics,” published in summer 2011.
The Poetry & Poetics Colloquium at Northwestern University
Publications by Emily Rohrbach
Studies in Romanticism 50.2 (summer 2011)
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The English Major in Writing Celebrates 30 Years on campus
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Jo Ann Beard, Frank Bidart, and George Saunders were Writers in Residence for the English Major in Writing’s 3rd Annual Spring Writers’ Festival
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Creative Writing students gather at the 3rd Annual Spring Writer’s Festival
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English Department faculty attend one of the talks organized as part of the annual One Book, One Northwestern program
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Writing students Cathy Gao (left) and Alleliah Nuguid (right) meet writer Elizabeth Benedict (center) at the Skidmore Summer Writers’ Institute.
Photo provided by Cathy Gao.
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Northwestern writing students Matt Pacult, Cathy Gao, and Alleliah Nuguid meet poet Frank Bidart at the Skidmore Summer Writers’ Institute.
Photo provided by Cathy Gao.
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Professors Mary Kinzie and John Keene celebrate 30 Years of creative writing at Northwestern
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Professors Wendy Wall (Avalon Foundation Professor, left) and Reginald Gibbons (Frances Hooper Chair in the Arts and Humanities, right) at their inauguration, with Professor Christopher Herbert (Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities, center)
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English Department faculty and students gathering before the Department's Fall Collation
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Professor Rebecca Johnson speaks at the English Department's Fall Collation
Upcoming Event
The Political Theory Colloquium presents: Matthew Gibney
May 20, 2013 • 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
