Dana Van Kooy

Contact

drvankoo@mtu.edu
Walker 319B

Associate Professor, English in Transnational Literature, Literary Theory and Culture
Director, RTC Graduate Program

PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder

Recent & Ongoing Research

My essays have appeared in Studies in Romanticism, Romantic Textualities, The Keats-Shelley Review, Modern Drama, Theatre Journal, and Literature Compass. They have also been published as chapters in A Cultural Hisotry of Tragedy: In the Age of Empire, edited by Michael Gamer and Diego Saglia (2020) and The Visual Life of Romantic Theater, 1780-1830, edited by Diane Piccitto and Terry F. Robinson (2023).

Links of Interest

Research Interests

Transnational and Global Romanticism; Deep Eighteenth Century
Drama and Theatre History
The Atlantic World
Environmental Humanites; Plantationocene
Performance Theory; Literary and Cultural Theory; Gender Studies

Recent Publications

Shelley's Radical Stages:Performance and Cultural Memory in the Post-Napoleonic Era. Routledge, 2016 Read More
"Darien Prospects in Keats's 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer'" Keats-Shelley Review 29.2 (September 2015): 128-45. Read More
“Melodramatic Slaves.” With Jeffrey N. Cox. Modern Drama 55.4 (Winter 2012): 459-75. Read More
“Darkness Visible: The Early Melodrama of British Imperialism and the Commodification of History in Sheridan’s Pizarro.” Theatre Journal 64(2012): 179-195. Read More
“Improvising on the Borders: Hellenism, History, and Tragedy in Shelley’s Hellas.” Home and Abroad: Transnational England, 1750-1850. Eds. Monika Class and Terry F. Robinson (Cambridge Scholar’s Press, 2009): 41-57.
“‘rank imposture’ and ‘mimic goblinary’ in Scott's Doom of Devorgoil: A Genre Politics of National Drama.” Literature Compass 4 (March 2007). Read More