Faculty
Adriana Craciun,
Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Davis
(951) 827-1780
adriana.craciun@ucr.edu
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Adriana Craciun specializes in eighteenth and nineteenth-century British culture and critical theory. She is the author of Fatal Women of Romanticism (Cambridge, 2003) and British Women Writers and the French Revolution: Citizens of the World (Palgrave, 2005). In addition to publishing essays in journals such as PMLA, European Romantic Review, New Literary History, and Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, she has edited several Romantic-era novels, eighteenth-century feminist works, and a collection of essays, Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution (with Kari Lokke, SUNY).
Her current work examines the roles played by print and manuscript authorship practices in Arctic exploration, from the late seventeenth century through the late nineteenth century. Her new book in progress, titled Northwest Passages: Authorship, Exploration, Disaster, traces a genealogy of the circulation of multidisciplinary texts (printed, manuscript, cartographic, graffiti, visual) about and in the Arctic, and the often disastrous effects these texts had on the pursuit of the Northwest Passage and the North Pole. Craciun has received a University of California President’s Faculty Research Fellowship for the 2010-11 academic year to work on Northwest Passages.
Drawing on this new work that considers emerging disciplinary boundaries, Craciun is also co-organizing with Luisa Calè and Luciana Martins (Birkbeck, University of London) a two-year series of international events, "The Disorder of Things: Predisciplinarity and the Divisions of Knowledge 1660-1850." The final event in the series will be the conference on "Inscriptions: The Material Contours of Knowledge" (March 10 and 11, 2011, UC Riverside) (http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/disorder_of_things/inscriptions.html), supported in part by a grant from the University of California Humanities Research Institution. Publications expected from the series include a special issue of Eighteenth-Century Studies (due out in 2011).