Celeste Langan

Associate Professor
Wheeler Hall, room 430
T 3-5; also by appointment
clangan@berkeley.edu

Specialties

?19th-Century British
Critical Theory
Disability Studies
Poetry

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Selected Publications and Papers Delivered

Publications:
"Repetition Run Riot: Refrains, Slogans, and Graffiti."? In "Lyric Elements," special issue of The Wordsworth Circle 52:2 (Spring 2021), p. 287-307.
"The General Undertaker: Scott's Life of Napoleon Buonaparte and the Prehistory of Neoliberalism."? In Walter Scott at 250: Looking Forward. ed. Caroline Mc-Cracken-Flesher and Matthew Wickman. Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
"Introduction: Romanticism and its Discontents" (with Anne-Lise-Fran?ois and Alex Walton). European Romantic Review 28:3 (2017), p. 259-65.
"Education is Our Occupation."? PMLA October 2011.
“The Medium of Romantic Poetry.”? Co-authored with Maureen N. McLane.? Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry.? NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
“Venice.” In Romantic Metropolis:? The Urban Scene of British Culture 1780-1840.? NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
“Scotch Drink and Irish Harps:? Mediations of the National Air.”? In The Figure of Music in Nineteenth=Century British Poetry.? Ashgate, 2005.
"Pathologies of Communication from Coleridge to Schreber." South Atlantic Quarterly 102:1 (Winter 2003), p. 117-152.
"Mobility Disability." Public Culture 13:3 (Autumn 2001), p. 459-84.
"Understanding Media in 1805: Audiovisual Hallucination in The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Studies in Romanticism 40:1 (Spring 2001), p. 49-70.
Romantic Vagrancy: Wordsworth and the Simulation of Freedom. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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Papers:
"Byron and Black Cantology." MLA, January 2022.
"Riotous Writing:? Graffiti, Slogans, and the Romantic Refrain."? "Romanticism Now & Then," ICR, Manchester, GB, July-Aug. 2019.
"Under Arrest:? Transport and Security (Excitation and Citation)." Plenary lecture, "Transporting Romanticism" Conference, Wellington, NZ, February 2017
"Mimesis, Diplomacy, Subversion:? Taking Dictation in The Red and the Black."? Vancouver, CA, January 2015.
Austerlitz and the Future of Propaganda.”?? Neuchatel, Switzerland, August 2012.
“The Ambiguity and/of Neutrality:? Poetry and Free Speech circa 1800. ” UC Davis English Department, April 2012.
"Romantic Neutrality:? Bullets, Bulletins, and Don Juan."? Vancouver, CA, August 2010.
“Afterlives of Napoleon.”? July 2011, Laramie, WY.

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Current Research

"Post-Napoleonism: Imagining Sovereignty After 1799"

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English Department Classes

fall, 2022

175/1
Literature and Disability: States of Exception
Literatures in English
Novel
Poetry
Literary Theory
Special Topics

fall, 2021

190/2
Research Seminar: Literature on Trial: Romanticism, Law, Justice
British 19th-Century
Novel
Drama
Poetry
Literary Theory
Research Seminars

spring, 2021

121/1
The Romantic Period: Romantic Voices
British 18th-Century
British 19th-Century
Poetry

H195B/2
Honors Course
Honors and Tutorial Courses

fall, 2020

161/1
Introduction to Literary Theory: Free Speech, in Theory
Literary Theory

H195A/2
Honors Course
Literary Theory
Honors and Tutorial Courses

spring, 2020

246G/1
Romantic Period
Graduate Courses

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