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. |
Research Projects
| Sponsor : Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) Title : The Boundaries of History and Fiction in Romantic Britain and Ireland, 1780-1840 Start Date / End Date : 01-SEP-09 / 31-AUG-10 |
Recent Postgraduates
| Colleen English (PhD Student): 'Writing the Dead: Epitaphs, Elegies and Irish Nationalism' |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Fermanis, Porscha (2012) 'Countering the Counterfactual: Joanna Baillie's 'Metrical Legends of Exalted Character's (1821) and the Paratexts of History'. Women's Writing, 19 (3):333-350. [Details] |
| 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] |
Book Chapters
| Fermanis, Porscha (2012) 'Anatomizing the Case: Shelley's The Cenci, Browning's The Ring and the Book, and the Origins of the Dramatic Monologue' In: Carmen Casaliggi and Paul Russel-March (eds). Legacies of Romanticism: Literature, Culture, Aesthetics. London: Routledge. [Details] |
Edited Books
| Porscha Fermanis and John Regan (Ed.). (2013) Rethinking British Romantic History, 1770-1845. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Details] |
Books
| Porscha Fermanis; (2009) John Keats and the Ideas of the Enlightenment. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [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: 2009. Title: IRCHSS Research Fellow |
| 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 |
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| Year: 1998. Title: Australian University Postgraduate Scholarship |
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| Year: 1997. Title: Katherine Moss Prize |
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Conference Contributions
| Porscha Fermanis; (2008) 'Vizualising Distance': The Reader as Spectator in Walter Scott's 'Waverely'. [Invited Oral Presentation], ECLRNI, National Library Dublin , 18-OCT-08 - 18-OCT-08. |
| Porscha Fermanis; (2009) 'A beggarly gleaner in the field': History and Romance in William Godwin's 'History of the Commonwealth'. [Chaired Session], Romantic Realignments, Oxford University, Oxford University , 18-NOV-09 - 18-NOV-09. |
| Porscha Fermanis; (2009) 'History and Romance in William Godwin's 'History of the Commonwealth'. [Invited Oral Presentation], ECLRNI, Queens University Belfast , 15-OCT-09 - 15-OCT-10. |
| Porscha Fermanis; (2010) Chronicling the Past: National History, the Peninsular War and Robert Southey's 'History of Brazil'. [International Refereed Conference], Romantic Historiography, 1780-1840, University College Dublin , 22-JUL-10 - 24-JUL-10. |
| Porscha Fermanis; (2010) Psychology and History in William Godwin's 'History of the Commonwealth'. [Invited Lecture], UNSW Seminar Series, University of New South Wales , 15-APR-10 - 15-APR-10. |
| Porscha Fermanis; (2010) Historical Writing in the Romantic Period. [Invited Oral Presentation], UWA Seminar Series, University of Western Australia , 11-MAR-10 - 11-MAR-10. | |||||||||
| 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. | |||||||||
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