Emily Rohrbach
Assistant Professor of Literature
University Hall Room 228
Telephone: (847) 491-5157
Fax: (847) 467-1545
E-mail: e-rohrbach@northwestern.edu
Emily Rohrbach (Ph.D. Boston University) teaches and writes about British Romanticism, aesthetic theory, and literary subjectivity. Her book manuscript, Dark Passages of Time: Romantic Historiography and the Literary Subject, 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 formally diverse texts 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, she has published, or has forthcoming, articles in the Keats-Shelley Journal, Revue d’Etudes Anglophones, European Romantic Review, and SEL: Studies in English Literature. She has recently guest-edited a special issue of the journal Studies in Romanticism on the topic “Reading Keats, Thinking Politics,” forthcoming summer 2011.
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 congregate 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
