ERIC WALKER, Associate Professor and University Distinguished Teaching Professor. A.B. cum laude, Davidson College (1975); M.Litt., University of Aberdeen, Scotland (1979); M.A. (1977) and Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1984).

Associate Chair of the department, Dr. Walker specializes in Romanticism and 18th century studies. His current work is in adoption studies, for a book on Romanticism and Adoption. In 2004-06, he served as an Assistant Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences.

BOOKS

• Marriage, Writing, and Romanticism: Wordsworth and Austen After War, forthcoming Spring 2009, Stanford University Press.

OTHER RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• "The Long Revolution of Raymond Williams: Culture and Society Fifty Years On," The Wordsworth Circle, 2006.
• "The Muse of Indifference," PMLA, Jan. 2005. Special Topic issue "On Poetry"
• "Rewriting Romantic Revision: A New Byron Letter," Keats-Shelley Journal, 2004.
• "Keats and Corbauld? The Hessey Copy of the Lamia Volume," Keats-Shelley Journal, 2004.
• "Marriage and the End of War" in Romantic Wars, ed. Philip Shaw, 2000.
• Other essays have appeared in Studies in Philology, Studies in Romanticism, European Romantic Review, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Studies in English Literature (SEL), Philological Quarterly, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, and other journals and essay collections.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

• "Romanticism and Adoption: The Case of Emma Isola," NASSR 2008, Toronto.
• "Austen, Cavell, and the Ordinary," MLA 2006, Philadelphia.
• "Raymond Williams and Romanticism," MLA 2005, Washington.
• "The Family Romance of Willy Austin," NASSR 2005, Montreal.
• "Romanticism, Adoption, and Cosmopolitanism," NASSR 2004, Boulder.
• "'In the Place of a Parent': Jane Austen and Adoption," BWWC 2004, Athens, GA.
• "Romanticism and Adoption," NASSR 2003, New York.

WORK AVAILABLE ONLINE

• "The Muse of Indifference," PMLA, Vol. 120, No. 1 (January 2005), pp. 197-218. Available via institutional subscriptions to the IngentaConnect database: http://www.ingentaconnect.com
• Review of William Galperin, The Historical Austen (Pennsylvania, 2003), Romanticism on the Net, November 2004. http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2003/v/n32-33/009266ar.html
• Review of Duncan Wu, Wordsworth's Reading, 1800-1815 (Cambridge, 1995), Romanticism on the Net, No. 5 (February 1997). http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/wu.html
• "Biographia Literaria and Wordsworth's Revisions," Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Vol. 28, No. 4 (1988), pp. 569-88. Available via institutional subscriptions to the JSTOR database: http://www.jstor.org

TEACHING AWARDS

• Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award, Florida State University, 1999.
• Outstanding Teaching Award, South Atlantic Association of Departments of English (SAADE), 1998.
• University Distinguished Teaching Professor, Florida State University, 1996.
• University Teaching Award, Florida State University, 1995.
• Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award, Florida State University, 1995.
• University Teaching Award, Florida State University, 1988.
• The Earl Hartsell Teaching Award, Dept. of English, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1982.