Piya Pal-Lapinski, Associate Professor
Associate Chair/Graduate Coordinator

piyapl@bgnet.bgsu.edu

320 East Hall/211 East Hall
419-372-7553/419-372-6864

Degrees and Institutions:

MA/PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
BA, Presidency College(University of Calcutta), India

Courses Regularly Taught:

Eng 265: British Literature Survey 1700-1945, Eng 417: Topics in
Romanticism, Eng 416: Topics in the Victorian Novel, Eng 423, Women’s
Studies in Literature

Area:

The Victorian Novel, British Romanticism, The British and European Gothic, Vampires, Topics in Critical Theory, Postcolonial Theory, Terrorism and Aesthetics, Libertine Culture in 18^th and 19^th century Britain

Research Interests:

Byron and Poststructuralist theory, theorizing violence, the Romantic and Victorian novel, courtesans and the culture of capitalism, discourses of terror, fashion theory, Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project.

Recent Publications:

The Exotic Woman in Nineteenth Century British Fiction and Culture: A Reconsideration (University of New England Press, 2005). Reviewed in Victorian Studies, Journal of Victorian Culture, CHOICE

"A Night with La Draculetta": Designing/Desiring Romanian Diva Angela Gheorghiu in Vampirettes, Wretches and Amazons, ed. Valentina Glajar and Domnica Radulescu, Columbia University Press, 2005.

Work-in-progress:

“Byron Avec Sade: Material and Spectral Violence in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,Canto IV” in Byron’s Ghosts, ed. Gavin Hopps, (forthcoming)

Book manuscript in progress: Byronic Violence: Erotics, Aesthetics, Politics

Byron and the Politics of Freedom and Terror, edited collection, co-edited with Dr. Matt Green, University of Nottingham, UK

“Byronic Terror, Death and Impossible Exchange” From Byron’s Werner to Baudrillard’s “The Spirit of Terrorism” [article –in-progress]