Aaron Worth

Assistant Professor of Rhetoric

Education:

BA English and Theatre, Bates College
MA English Literature, Brandeis University
PhD English Literature, Brandeis University

Teaching interests:  Rhetoric and Technology, History of the Essay, Writing and Media History

Research interests:  Victorian Literature and Culture, History of Science, Cognitive Literary Studies, and Media Studies

Selected publications:

“‘Thinketh: Browning and Other Minds,” Victorian Poetry (forthcoming).

“Arthur Machen and the Horrors of Deep History,” Victorian Literature and Culture 40.1 (forthcoming).

“Imperial Transmissions: H.G. Wells, 1897-1901,” Victorian Studies 53.1, pp. 65-89 (Fall 2010).

“Tennyson and the Poetics of Alterity,” Victorian Newsletter 117, pp. 75-89 (Spring 2010).

“ALL INDIA BECOMING TRANQUIL: Wiring the Raj,” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 9:1 (Spring 2008).

“Edith Wharton’s Poetics of Telecommunication,” Studies in American Fiction 36:1, pp. 95-121 (Spring 2008).

Other professional activity and/or awards:

Conference organizer/host, Northeast Victorian Studies Association Conference at Boston University (Spring 2013).

Editorial Board, Impact: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning (2011).