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Assistant Professor
| Office Location: | 401 Allen Building | | Office Phone: | 919-668-2547 | | Email Address: |  
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- Office Hours:
- Thursday, 1:30 - 3:30
Education:
- Ph.D. University of Washington 2001
- M.A. University of California-Irvine 1995
- B.A. University of Washington 1994
- Specialties:
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British Literature
Romanticism
18th Century Literature
Literature and Science
- Research Interests: British Literature of the Romantic Era; Romanticism; 18th Century Literature; Literature and Science
Robert Mitchell is interested in the role of theories of emotional communication (for example, sympathy and identification), as well as the role of science, in the prose and poetry of the Romantic era. He is also interested in contemporary intersections between information technologies, genetics, and commerce, especially as these have been played out in the legal and literary spheres. He has published articles about the role of sympathy in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, the vision of science in Percy Bysshe Shelley's early poetry, and is co-editor of a collection of essays
entitled Semiotic Flesh: Information and the Human Body. He is currently revising a manuscript that outlines the history of theories of sympathy in the Romantic era, and he is also working on a multimedia project that investigates contemporary issues in genetic commerce.
Representative Publications (More Publications)
- Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era: Systems, State Finance, and the Shadows of Futurity. Routledge,
2007. [102-8880685-5627335]
- C. Waldby and R. Mitchell. Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism. Duke University Press,
2006. [102-8880685-5627335]
- "'Beings that have existence only in ye minds of men': State Finance and the Origins of the Collective Imagination." forthcoming
The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (2007).
- "The Fane of Tescalipoca: S. T. Coleridge on the Sacrificial Economies of Systems in the 1790s." Studies in Romanticism 46:1 (2007): 105-27.
- "Beautiful and Orderly Systems: Adam Smith on the Aesthetics of Political Improvement." New Voices on Adam Smith (2006).
- "The Violence of Sympathy: Adam Smith on Resentment and Executions." 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Winter,
2003).
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