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 first book, Shelley's Radical Stages was published by Routledge in 2016. My essays have appeared in the journals, Studies in Romanticism, Romantic Textualities, The Keats-Shelley Review, Modern Drama, Theatre Journal, and Literature Compass. Essays 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).
Honors and awards include being a Fulbright Scholar at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh; a visiting research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh; a Research Excellence Fund-Scholarship & Creativity Award (MTU), a Lewis Walpole Library Fellowship (Yale University), and a Huntington Library Mayers Fellow.
She is working on two book-length projects: Contesting Footprints and PlantationoScenes and Harlequin Matters: Unsettling Performances and Disappearing Acts.
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