Faculty

Dr. Aruna Krishnamurthy Assistant Professor

Contact Information:
Room: Miller Hall, Room 27B
Phone: 978-665-3247
Email: akrishnamurthy@fsc.edu

Office Hours: Fall 2009 ~ Mon & Wed 11:00 - 12:15

Education:

B.A. Delhi University, English, with Honors

M.A. Delhi University, English, with Honors

Ph.D. University of Florida, English

Courses Taught:

Eighteenth-Century Novel
South Asian Literature
Literary Criticism
Romanticism
Postcolonial Literature
Classic to Romantic
Approaches to Literature
World Literature II
English Literature: From Pepys to Shelley
English Literature: From Bronte to Rushdie
Revisiting the Romantics (Graduate)
Literary Theory (Graduate)
Theory and History of the Novel (Graduate)

Research Interests:

Travel Writings in India during the British Empire

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Class and Gender Issues

Representative Publications:

BOOK

The Working-Class Intellectual in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England, ed. and intro. by Aruna Krishnamurthy, Ashgate: UK, 2009.

“Introduction,” in Making of the Working-Class Intellectual in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England.

“Coffee-House vs. Ale-House: Notes on the Making of the Eighteenth-Century Working-Class Intellectual,” in Making of the Working-Class Intellectual in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England.

ESSAY and JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

“‘The Constant Action of our Lab’ring Hands’: Mary Collier’s Demystification of Work and Womanhood in the Early Eighteenth Century,” in Everyday Revolutions: Eighteenth-Century Women Transforming the Public and Private, edited by Marta Kvande and Diane E. Boyd, University of Delaware Press, 2008.

“‘Assailing the THING’: Politics of Space in William Cobbett’s Rural Rides,” in Cardiff Corvey: Reading The Romantic Text. No. 7 (December 2001).

“‘More Than Abstract Knowledge:’ Friedrich Engels in Industrial Manchester.” Journal of Victorian Literature and Culture. 28.2 (2000): 427-48.