Karen Weisman

Karen Weisman

First Name: 
Karen
Last Name: 
Weisman
Title: 
Professor of English
Phone : 
416-978-2318
Office Location : 
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 925, 170 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5R 2M8
Education: 
MA, University of Toronto
PhD, University of Toronto

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Areas of Interest: 
  • Romanticism
  • Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
  • Cultural History and Contemporary Theory
  • Jewish Studies

Selected Publications

Singing in a Foreign Land: Anglo-Jewish Poetry 1812-1847 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).

Imageless Truths: Shelley’s Poetic Fictions (University of Pennsylvania Press).

Editor, The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy (Oxford University Press, 2011). 

“Memory and the Exigencies of Literary Form: Anthony Hecht’s ‘The Book of Yolek.’” Studies in American Jewish Literature. 42.1 (2023): 55-69.

"Shelley and Lyric," in The Cambridge Companion to Percy Bysshe Shelley (Cambridge University Press, 2006). 

“Anglo-Jewish Romantic Poetry,” in The Blackwell Companion to British Romantic Poetry (Oxford: Blackwell, 2011) 

“Mourning, Translation, Pastoral: Hyman Hurwitz and Literary Authority,” in A Convergence of Cultures (Ashgate, 2011).

"“Anglo-Jewish Culture and the Condition of England:  the Poetry of Marion and Celia Moss.” BRANCH:  Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History.  Ed. Dino Franco Felluga.  Extension of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net.  2013. Web.

Articles concerning such issues as Michael Chabon and narrative form (in The Yale Review), Romanticism and legal discourse (in European Romantic Review), the canon debates (in Salmagundi), contemporary poetry and Romantic epic (in Modern Language Quarterly), Amy Clampitt and Keats (in Criticism), William Collins and elegy (in Style), Amy Levy and poetic forms (in Criticism); Charlotte Smith (in The Wordsworth Circle), and various others.

Current Research

Romanticism and Memory.

On Leave: 
Saturday, January 1, 2022 to Thursday, June 30, 2022
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Karen Weisman Professor of English