Peter Melville
English
Title: Associate Professor
Office: 2A32
Building: Ashdown
Phone: 204.786.9261
Email: p.melville@uwinnipeg.ca
Biography:
Peter Melville is Associate Professor at the University of Winnipeg, where he teaches courses on Romanticism, critical theory, and fantasy fiction. He is currently engaged in two research projects: the first focuses on figures of refuge in the novels of William Godwin and Mary Shelley; while the second considers aspects of disability, shame, and class warfare in contemporary epic fantasy, including the novels of Stephen Donaldson, Brandon Sanderson, and Robin Hobb.
Teaching Areas: Romanticism, Critical & Cultural Theory, Fantasy Fiction
Courses:
(F) ENGL-1000.3-003 English 1A
(F) ENGL-2604.3-001 Poetry and Poetic Forms
Publications:
Books
Writing about Literature: An Introductory Guide. Scarborough, ON: Nelson Education, 2011.
Romantic Hospitality and the Resistance to Accommodation: Rousseau, Kant, Coleridge, and Mary Shelley. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, March 2007.
Special Issues
Co-editor, with Michelle Faubert. Special Issue "Romanticism and Rights". European Romantic Review 27.3 (2016).
Essays & Book Chapters
"The 'sick imagination' of Godwin's Fleetwood." Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net. 25 par. Forthcoming.
Co-author, with Michelle Faubert. "Introduction: Romanticism and Rights. Special Issue "Romanticism and Rights". European Romantic Review 27.3 (2016): 281-84.
"Revolutionary Subjectivity in Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn Trilogy." Studies in the Fantastic 3 (Winter 2015/Spring 2016): 23-44.
“Witnessing the ‘Unwitnessed’ in Stephen Erikson’s The Malazan Book of the Fallen.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 26.2 (2015): 276-91.
“Lying with Godwin and Kant: Truth and Duty in St. Leon.” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 55.1 (2014): 19-37.
“Another Way: Smallville’s Tess Mercer as Ethical Hero.” Mapping Smallville: Critical Essays on the Series and Its Characters. Jefferson, NC: McFarland (2014), 83-99.
“Strangers Among Us: Figures of Refuge in Caleb Williams and St. Leon.” European Romantic Review 24.3 (2013): 335-342.
“Monstrous Ingratitude: Hospitality in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” European Romantic Review 19.2 (2008): 179-185.
“The Problem of Immunity in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man.” SEL: Studies in English Literature (2007): 825-846.
“Staging the Nation: Hospitable Performances in Kant’s Anthropology.” European Romantic Review 17.1 (January 2006): 39-53.
“‘A friendship of taste’: The Aesthetics of Eating Well in Kant’s Anthropology.” Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite: Eating Romanticism. Ed. Timothy Morton. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 203-216
“The Sleepy Carib: Rousing the ‘Native Informant’ in Rousseau.” European Romantic Review 13.2 (2002): 183-191.
“Kant’s Dinner Party: Anthropology from a Foucauldian Point of View.” Mosaic 35.2 (2002): 92-109.
“Spectres of Schelling: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Limits of Freedom.” Arachne 7.1/2 (2000): 62-75.
“‘Illuminism and Terrorism’: Melancholia and Hypochondria in Immanuel Kant’s Anthropology.” The Dalhousie Review 79.3 (1999): 335-354.