Ana Acosta

Education:

Ph.D. (with distinction), Columbia University - 1997 (Comparative Literature)

Areas of Expertise:

Professor Acosta's teaching and research interests include Restoration and 18th-century literature; early modern women writers; critical theory of the 18th century; comparative literature of the Enlightenment (British, French, German, Spanish); libertine fiction; religion, science and enlightenment; dictionaries, encyclopedias, and Biblical translation and interpretation; peninsular and Latin American literature; utopias.

Books and Publications

"Mary Wollstonecraft." The Dictionary of Women Interpreters of Scripture. Ed. Marion Ann Taylor. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic Press. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2010

Acosta, Ana M. and David L. Pike. Literature: A World of Writing. Longman: http://vigstage.pearsonhighered.com/showcase/pike1e (Books and Publications: Book) 2010

"The Sadeness of Scott's Utopia: Millenium Hall and The 120 Days of Sodom." Gender and Utopian Thought in the Eighteenth Century. Eds. Brenda Tooley and Nicole Pohl. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2007

Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary Shelley. Aldershot (Hampshire), United Kingdom, and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. (Books and Publications: Book) 2006

"Papist Hotbeds: Convents in the Literary Imagination of Eighteenth-Century Britain." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 15.3-4, April-July: 615-42. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2003

"Spaces of Dissent and the Public Sphere in Hackney and Newington Green." Eighteenth-Century Life 27.1, Winter: 1-27. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2003

"Conjectures and Speculations: Jean Astruc, Obstetrics and Biblical Criticism in Eighteenth-Century France." Eighteenth-Century Studies 35.2, Winter: 256-66. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2001

Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums

"Reading the Clouds." 39th Annual Meeting of the American Society for 18th Century Studies. Richmond, Va., March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009

"Material Spirits." Department of English, Simon Fraser University. Vancouver, British Columbia, September. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008

"Utopia in a Dumpster." 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies. Toronto, October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

"Anatomical Manipulations: Religious Iconography and Medical Modeling." 37th Annual Meeting of the American Society for 18th-Century Studies. Montreal, March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006

"The Ideal Body of Eighteenth-Century Waxworking." 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies. Toronto, October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2004

"Corporeal Machinery and Theatrical Anatomy." Comparative Studies in 18th-Century Literature Session on Artificial Intelligences, Automata, and Other Unnatural Subjects, Modern Languages Association Annual Convention. San Diego, December. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003