Bryan Waterman

Associate Professor of English

Education

Ph.D. 2000 (American Studies), Boston University

Areas of Research/Interest

18th- and 19th-century American literary and cultural history; New York City literary, performance, and intellectual cultures; the Revolutionary Atlantic World

External Affiliations

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, common-place, Residential College at Broome Street (Faculty in Residence), Society of Early Americanists, Modern Language Association, American Studies Association, Charles Brockden Brown Society.

Fellowships/Honors

Massachusetts Historical Society, Houghton Library (Harvard University), Golden Dozen Teaching Award (NYU CAS), Henry E. Huntington Library; Library Company of Philadelphia/Historical Society of Pennsylvania; New York Academy of Medicine; Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History; New-York Historical Society; Boston University Humanities Foundation; Princeton University Libraries.

Bio

Bryan Waterman, Associate Professor, earned his Ph.D. in American Studies from Boston University in 2000 and joined NYU’s faculty the following year. He specializes in American literature with focus on literary and cultural histories of New York City. He is the author of Republic of Intellect: The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature (Johns Hopkins, 2007) and the co-editor, with Cyrus R. K. Patell, of The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York City (2010). He edited the Norton Critical Editions of two early American novels and wrote the volume on Television's Marquee Moon for Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series. has published in such journals as The William and Mary Quarterly, American Literary History, and Early American Literature. Professor Waterman is completing a book on seduction stories and sex scandals in the revolutionary Atlantic World; his most recent research centers on New York City in the age of Warhol.

Since fall 2012 Professor Waterman has been Visiting Associate Professor of Literature at NYU Abu Dhabi, where he also serves as Program Head for the Program in Literature and Creative Writing.

Publications

  • Television's Marquee Moon (33 1/3 Series)
    Continuum Publishing, 2011
  • Republic of Intellect: The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature
    Johns Hopkins UP, 2007
  • Hannah Webster Foster’s The Coquette and The Boarding School: A Norton Critical Edition, ed. w/ Jennifer Harris
    W.W. Norton, 2013
  • Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist: A Norton Critical Edition, ed. Bryan Waterman
    W.W. Norton, 2011
  • The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York, ed. w/ Cyrus R.K. Patell
    Cambridge University Press, 2010
  • “‘Heaven protect us from such fathers’: Perez Morton and the Politics of Seduction,” in Tita Chico and Toni Bowers, eds. Seduction and Sentiment in the Atlantic World, 1650-1800 (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2012)
  • “Coquetry and Correspondence in Revolutionary-Era Connecticut: Reading Elizabeth Whitman’s Letters,” Early American Literature 46:3 (winter 2011): 541-63
  • Ed., “The Letters of Elizabeth Whitman to Joel and Ruth Barlow, 1779-1783,” Early American Literature 46:3 (winter 2011): 565-600
  • “The City on Stage,” in Patell and Waterman, eds. The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York (2010)
  • “Elizabeth Whitman’s Disappearance and Her ‘Disappointment,’” William and Mary Quarterly (April 2009): 325-64
  • “The Bavarian Illuminati, the Early American Novel, and Histories of the Public Sphere,” William and Mary Quarterly (January 2005): 9-30
  • “Arthur Mervyn’s Medical Repository and the Early Republic’s Knowledge Industries,” American Literary History 15:2 (2003): 213-47