Dr Stacey McDowell

Associate Professor

Email: Stacey dot McDowell at warwick dot ac dot uk

5.47 Faculty of Arts Building
University Road
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL

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About

I teach eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature. Before joining the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Warwick, I held posts at Cambridge and Bristol.

My research focuses on poetry, literature and philosophy, reading studies, and sexuality and gender. I have a wider interest in pedagogy, mentorship and literary education - both historically and in the present. I have also been involved in teaching literature in schools and prisons.

My book, Reading Sympathy in Romantic Literature (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press), focuses on representations of people reading together in Romantic texts and questions what they reveal about both reading and togetherness. It shows what the peculiarly intimate kind of sharing involved in sharing a book has to say about the act of sharing more generally, especially within the context of eighteenth-century theories of sympathy and fellow feeling.

I am also currently working on a new scholarly edition of The Complete Poems of John Keats for the Longman Annotated English Poets series.

Selected Publications

'Ottava Rima's Transitional Moods', in The 1810s, edited by Emma Mason, part of the multi-volume series, 'Re-reading the Nineteenth Century', General Editors, Juliet John et al (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

‘Whispering Galleries, Echoes, and Literary Acoustics’, Literature and the Senses, ed. Annette Kern-Stähler and Elizabeth Robertson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 144-61.

‘Walter Pater, Charles Lamb, and the Value of Reserve’, Walter Pater and the Development of English Studies, ed. Charles Martindale, Lene Østermark-Johansen and Elizabeth Prettejohn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. 239-54.

‘Ann Yearsley and Habituated Indifference’, special issue on ‘Habit and Romanticism’, ed. Eliza Haughton-Shaw and Hannah Tran, The Cambridge Quarterly, 51:3 (2022), 258-76.

‘Wordsworth and Reading’s Promise’, Studies in Romanticism, 60:1 (2021), 57-78.

‘The Senses and Sensation’, in Keats in Context, edited by Michael O’Neill (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017)

‘Shiftiness in Keats’s “Ode on Indolence”’, Romanticism 23:1 (2017), 27-37

‘Rhyming and Undeciding in Wordsworth and Norman Nicholson’, Romanticism 23:2 (2017), 179-190

‘Reading Together’, Essays in Criticism 64 (2014), 351-372