Faculty
Carole Fabricant, Professor (951) 827-1810 Carole Fabricant (B.A. Bard College; Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University) is the author of Swift's Landscape , published by Johns Hopkins University Press (1982); reissued in paper with a new Introduction by the University of Notre Dame Press (1995). A former James L. Clifford Prize Winner for her essay on the ideology of Augustan landscape design, she has published numerous articles on a variety of 18th-century topics, the most recent of which include “Eighteenth-Century Travel Literature,” in The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780, ed. John Richetti (2005); “Colonial Sublimities and Sublimations: Swift, Burke, and Ireland,” in a special issue of ELH(Summer 2005); and “George Berkeley the Islander: Some Reflections on Utopia, Race, and Tar-Water,” in The Global Eighteenth Century, ed. Felicity Nussbaum (2003). She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1999-2000 for her book-length project, "Problems of Colonial Representation in 18th-Century Ireland." Fabricant offers courses in postcolonial and Irish studies, Caribbean literature, and women’s literature, as well as in her specialty, 18th-century studies. |
PUBLICATIONS (In Print and In Progress)
Edition of Jonathan Swift’s Miscellaneous Prose; for Penguin Classics.
Co-edited volume of Jonathan Swift’s Irish Writings; for Palgrave.
Essay, “Geographical Projects in the Later Eighteenth Century: Imperial Myths and Realities,” in The Age ofProjects, ed. Maximillian Novak; for the University of Toronto Press.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
A frequent participant in national and international conferences, Fabricant has recently presented papers at the American Conference of Irish Studies and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and given invited talks at the University of Notre Dame, the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, and Trinity College, Dublin.
FELLOWSHIPS and AWARDS
Fabricant was a Guggenheim Fellow and has been the recipient of research fellowships at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and The Huntington. She has also received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and from the American Council of Learned Societies.