Stefan U. Uhlig

Education and Degree(s)

• Ph.D., University of Cambridge
• B.A., University of Cambridge

Research Interest(s)

• Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature
• History and theory of literary studies

Course(s) Taught

• COM 195 The Bildungsroman
• COM 120 Writing Nature: 1750 to the Present
• COM 164D The Enlightenment
• COM 7 Fantasy and the Supernatural
• COM 141 Comparative Critical Theory
• COM 255 Graduate Colloquium in Comparative Literature
• Freshman Seminar: What is the Point of an Interpretation?
• Freshman Seminar: Democratic Education

Profile

I work on the history of literary studies, rhetoric, poetics, historiography, aesthetics, and the history of education. I teach anglophone and European literary writing from the late seventeenth into the early nineteenth century. Before coming to UC Davis, I was a Fellow and Director of Studies at King's College in the University of Cambridge.

Committees and Service

• Academic Senate Committee on Admissions and Enrollment

Selected Publications

“Secondary Affect in Lessing, Mendelssohn, and Nicolai,” in Affect and Literature, ed. Alex Houen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2018)

Review of César Domínguez, Haun Saussy, and Darío Villanueva, Introducing Comparative Literature: New Trends and Applications (New York: Routledge, 2015), Comparative Critical Studies, 15:1 (2018), 132-7

Goethe, Worlds, and Literatures, co-edited and introduced with Chunjie Zhang, special issue of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, 54.2 (2018)

Review of B. Venkat Mani, Recoding World Literature: Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany's Pact with Books (New York: Fordham, 2017), The German Quarterly, 90:3 (2017), 404-6

"Goethe’s Figurative Method," in The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism, ed. Paul Hamilton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), 315-39

"Ferguson’s School for Literature," in The Poetic Enlightenment: Poetry and Human Science, 1650-1820, ed. Tom Jones and Rowan Boyson (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013), 43-57

“The Long Goodbye to Rhetoric,” in REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature. Volume 28: Mobility in Literature and Culture, 1500-1900, ed. Ingo Berensmeyer, Christoph Ehland, and Herbert Grabes (Tübingen: Narr, 2012), 237-64

“Historiography or Rhetoric? A Road (Not) Taken in the Evolution of the Literary Field,” in The Canonical Debate Today: Crossing Disciplinary and Cultural Boundaries, ed. Theo D’Haen, David Damrosch, and Liviu Papadima (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2011), 215-26

Wordsworth’s Poetic Theory: Knowledge, Language, Experience, edited and introduced with Alexander Regier (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)

Aesthetics and the Work of Art: Adorno, Kafka, Richter, edited and introduced with Peter de Bolla (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)

"Wordsworth, Gray, and the Ordinary Life of Poetry," in The Meaning of "Life" in Romantic Poetry and Poetics, ed. Ross Wilson (New York: Routledge, 2009), 33-56