Dr Porscha Fermanis B.A., B.L., M.A., PhD.
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Biography:
Dr. Fermanis completed her undergraduate degree in English and Law at the University of Western Australia, and her PhD in English at the University of Oxford. Her doctoral thesis was on John Keats and eighteenth-century historiography, and was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2009 as John Keats and the Ideas of the Enlightenment. Her research interests are in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century literature, especially John Keats; Scottish Romanticism (in particular, Joanna Baillie and Sir Walter Scott); historical fiction; radical circles (in particular, the Godwin-Shelley circle); Romantic historicism and historiography; and the relationship bewteen Romanticism and the Enlightenment. Dr. Fermanis is currently working on an IRCHSS funded project on the boundaries between history and fiction in the Romantic period. |
Research Interests
| Dr. Fermanis's research interests are in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century literature, especially John Keats, William Godwin, Walter Scott, Joanna Baillie, Romantic-era historicism and historiography, and the relationship bewteen Enlightenment and Romanticism. Her last project, John Keats and the Ideas of the Enlightenment, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2009. Her current project is entitled Romantic Pasts: The Politics of Historical Representation in British Literature, 1780-1840. This project examines Romantic representations of historical periods, places and events, as well as the historical models and methodologies underpinning those representations, in order to demonstrate that debates about the past, and in particular about Enlightenment attitudes towards the past, provided an ideal forum for Romantic acts of political and cultural self-definition. Concurrently, Dr. Fermanis is working on an IRCHSS funded project entitled The Boundaries of History and Fiction in Romantic Britain and Ireland, 1780-1840. |
Books
| Porscha Fermanis; (2009) John Keats and the Ideas of the Enlightenment. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Porscha Fermanis; (2010) 'William Godwin's History of the Commonwealth and the Psychology of Individual History'. The Review of English Studies, . [Details] |
| Porscha Fermanis; (2007) 'Culture, Counter-culture and the Subversion of the Comic in A Connecticut Yankee'. Mark Twain Annual, . [Details] |
| Fermanis, P.; (2006) ''Isabella, Lamia, and 'Merry Old England'''. Essays in Criticism, . [Details] |
| Fermanis, P.; (2005) ''Stadial Theory, Robertson's History of America, and Hyperion''. Keats-Shelley Review, . [Details] |
Reviews
| Porscha Fermanis; (2010) Review of Li Ou's 'Keats and Negative Capability. Keats-Shelley Journal: Reviews [Details] |
| Porscha Fermanis; (2010) Review of Daisy Hay's 'Young Romantics'. Irish Times: Reviews [Details] |
| Porscha Fermanis; (2010) Review of the Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott's 'Peveril of the Peak'. Romantic Textualities: Reviews [Details] |
| Porscha Fermanis; (2009) Review of the Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott's 'The Siege of Malta and Bizarro'. Romantic Textualities: Reviews [Details] |
| Porscha Fermanis; (2009) Review of Edna O'Brien's 'Byron in Love'. Irish Times: Reviews [Details] |
Honours and Awards
| Year: 2006. Title: IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Year: 2004. Title: Keats-Shelley Memorial Association Essay Prize |
| Year: 2001. Title: Oxford University English Faculty Graduate Studentship |
| Year: 2002. Title: University College, Oxford G. A. Paul Memorial Scholarship |
| Year: 2000. Title: University College, Oxford Old Members¿ Trust Fund Scholarship |
| Year: 1998. Title: Australian University Postgraduate Scholarship |
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| Year: 1997. Title: Katherine Moss Prize |
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Conference Contributions
| Fermanis, P.; (2007) 'Walter Scott and Historical Distance in Waverley and Ivanhoe'. [International Refereed Conference], 8th International Sir Walter Scott Conference, Oxford Brooks University , 01-JAN-07 - 06-OCT-07. |
| Fermanis, P.; (2002) ''From Rudeness to Refinement': Robertson's History of America and Stadial Theory in the Hyperion Poems'. [International Refereed Conference], 'Romantic Realignments' seminar, University of Oxford , 01-JAN-02. |
| Fermanis, P.; (2002) 'Keats's 'Metromania': The Critical Reception of the 1817 Poems'. [International Refereed Conference], University College English Seminar Series, * , 01-JAN-02. |
Teaching Interests
| Dr. Fermanis currently teaches the following modules: ENG10060: Literature in Context 2, 1700-1950 ENG20490: Romanticism ENG20110: Reading Wordsworth's Poetry ENG30070: Romanticism and Postmodernism ENG40720: Concepts of Modernity |
Recent Postgraduates
| Colleen English (PhD Student): 'Writing the Dead: Epitaphs, Elegies and Irish Nationalism' |
Modules Taught
| 201000 ENG40760 English: Literary Research Methods |
| 200900 ENG20110 English: Reading Wordsworth's Poetry |
| 200900 ENG30070 English: Romanticism and Postmodernism |
| 201000 ENG30800 English: Reading Wordsworth |