BA, English (McGill University, 2008); MA, Center for Experimental Humanities (NYU, 2010);
Adrian Versteegh
Postdoctoral Lecturer
Adrian Versteegh’s research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century urban literature, particularly lowlife, nightlife, and sleep. His current book project is a literary history of insomnia in Victorian London. His recent scholarship on the poetics of sleep has appeared in Nineteenth-Century Contexts and the collection Nineteenth-Century Energies (Routledge, 2016). Other publications include Modern Language Studies, Cultural Digest, The Brooklyn Rail, Exit 9, Poets & Writers Magazine, and Dissent.
19th- and 20th-century literature; urban poetics; spatial and architectural theory; aesthetics of decay and ruination; comparative media; theories of time; historiography; alternate and secret histories; the subterranean; distraction and modes of attention; sleep and insomnia
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