Mark Allison

Contact Information

Office: Sturges 310
Phone: 740-368-3594
E-mail: maalliso@owu.edu

Specialty

Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Utopian Literature, and Critical theory

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
M.A., University of Chicago
B.A., Kenyon College

Biography

Professor Allison specializes in the literature and culture of nineteenth-century Britain. His research interests include intellectual history and historicism, utopian literature and theory, and the British novel. He is currently working on a book manuscript that examines the interconnections between Victorian theories of agency and historical periodization.

Courses Taught

ENG 105, Freshman Writing Seminar
ENG 145, Reading the Classic British Novel
ENG 176, Utopian Literature
ENG 228, Radical Britain
ENG 350, The Victorians
ENG 380, Literary Theory and Cultural Criticism

Major Publications

“Prematurity, Periodicity, and Agency in ‘The Function of Criticism at the Present Time,’” Nineteenth-Century Prose 34 (2007): 143-62

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