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 English Department
| Office Location: | 322 Allen | | 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
Eighteenth Century Literature
Science and Literature
Critical Theory
- 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)
- R. Mitchell et. al. "Genomics, Biobanks, and the Trade-Secret Model." Science 332 (15 April 2011): 309-310.
- R. Mitchell. "Suspended Animation, Slow Time, and the Poetics of Trance." PMLA 126:1 (2011): 107-122.
- R. Mitchell. "Cryptogamia." European Romantic Review 21:5 (2010): 631-51.
- R. Mitchell. Bioart and the Vitality of Media. University of Washington Press,
2010. [ref=sr_1_1]
- with C. Waldby. "National Biobanks: Clinical Labour, Risk Production, and the Creation of Biovalue." Science, Technology, and Human Values 35:3 (2010): 330-355.
- with Helen Burgess, Phillip Thurtle. Biofutures: Owning Body Parts and Information. University of Pennsylvania Press,
2008. (DVD-ROM) [html]
- R. Mitchell. "‘Beings that have existence only in ye minds of men’: State Finance and the Origins of the Collective Imagination." The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 49:2 (2008): 117-139.
- R. Mitchell. "Sacrifice, Individuation, and the Economics of Genomics." Literature and Medicine 26:1 (Spring,
Spring, 2007): 126-158.
- R. Mitchell. "The Fane of Tescalipoca: S. T. Coleridge on the Sacrificial Economies of Systems in the 1790s." Studies in Romanticism 46:1 (2007): 105-27.
- with P. Thurtle. "‘The Acme Novelty Library’: Comic Books, Repetition, and the Return of the New." Configurations 15:3 (2007): 267–297.
- R. Mitchell. Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era: Systems, State Finance, and the Shadows of Futurity. Routledge,
2007. [102-8880685-5627335]
- with C. Waldby. Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism. Duke University Press,
2006. [102-8880685-5627335]
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