Dr. Amy Garnai

Department of English and American Studies
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Dr. Amy Garnai
Phone: 03-6405039
Fax: 03-6407312

Research and Teaching

My research focuses on the writing of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with particular interests in women's writing, the Georgian theatre and, more generally, the intersection of politics and literature in the 1790s.  My first book, Revolutionary Imaginings in the 1790s: Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Elizabeth Inchbald (Palgrave: 2009) dealt with women writers and their response to the French Revolution. My current book project is tentatively entitled "Thomas Holcroft and the Revolutionary Drama: Radicalism Reception, Afterlives".  In it, I examine the life and work of the playwright, novelist, critic, translator and political activist Thomas Holcroft (1745-1809).  In telling Holcroft's story, I also explore subjects such as censorship of the theatre, 18th-century sociability, the 1794 Treason Trials, early melodrama, Victorian afterlives and life-writing.  My current project in many ways grows out of the earlier one, as both examine the culturally and politically vibrant Revolutionary decade in Britain; the promise it offered but also the forces that combined to repress the struggle for reform and its articulation in poetry, drama, and imaginative prose. A side project on which I am also working considers Thomas Holcroft's unlikely friendship with the composer Joseph Haydn. 

At Tel Aviv University I teach the Introduction to British Culture II. In the past I also taught courses such as "Jane Austen", "The Godwins and the Shelleys", "The Romantic Era Novel" and "the Gothic Novel".  

 

CV

Education

  • PhD in English Literature: Tel-Aviv University
  • MA in English Literature, Tel-Aviv University (cum laude)
  • BA in English Literature, Tel-Aviv University 

Awards and Grants

  • 2018: Franklin Research Grant, the American Philosophical Society
  • 2017: Travel Grant: Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Farmington, Connecticut, USA
  • 2016: Visiting Fellowship: Wolfson College, University of Oxford
  • 2015: Franklin Research Grant, the American Philosophical Society
  • 2013: Visiting Fellowship, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
  • 2007: British Academy/ESRC Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship, Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of York, UK
  • 2004: Minden Travel Grant (Department of English, Tel Aviv University)
  • 2001: Library Fellowship: Huntington Library, San Marino, California, USA
  • 1998-2002: Graduate Student Scholarship (Department of English, Tel-Aviv University)
  • 1997: The Poesis graduate student award for academic excellence (Department of English, Tel-Aviv University)

Membership in Professional Societies

  • Modern Language Association (MLA)
  • American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)
  • Wordsworth-Coleridge Association

Publications

Books 

  • Revolutionary Imaginings in the 1790s: Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Elizabeth Inchbald (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). Chapter Five is reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literature Collections, Gale Cengage, 2014.

Essays

  • "Conjuring Comedies of 1792." The Wordsworth Circle 48 (Spring 2017), 88-95.
  • "Holcroft, Thomas", for the Wiley Encyclopedia of British Literature, 1660-1789, eds. Gary Day and Jack Lynch (2015).
  • "Robert Merry's Expatriation and the Pains of Memory", The Wordsworth Circle 44 (Summer 2013), 101-105.
  • "An Exile on the Coast: Robert Merry's Transatlantic Journey, 1796-1798". The Review of English Studies 64:203 (February 2013), 87-104.
  • "'A Lock Upon My Lips': The Melodrama of Silencing and Censorship in Thomas Holcroft's Knave, or Not?" Eighteenth-Century Studies 43:4 (Summer 2010), 473-484.
  • "The Alien Act and Negative Cosmopolitanism in Charlotte Smith's 'The Hungarian'" in Charlotte Smith in British Romanticism, ed. Jacqueline Labbe (Pickering and Chatto, 2008), 101-112.
  • Introduction and ed., "A Letter from Charlotte Smith to the Publisher George Robinson", Eighteenth-Century Fiction 19:4 (Summer 2007), 391-400.
  • "Radicalism, Caution and Censorship in Elizabeth Inchbald's Every One Has His Fault" SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 47:3 (Summer 2007), 703-722.
  • "'One Victim from the Last Despair’: Mary Robinson’s Marie Antoinette", Women’s Writing 12:3 (2005), 381-398.
  • "Politics, Exile and Authorship in Charlotte Smith’s The Emigrants" Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Works and Culture 3 (2003), 225-243. 

Reviews

  • Review of Melissa Sodeman, Sentimental Memorials: Women and the Novel in Literary History. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 28:4 (2016), 739-741.
  • Review of David Worrall, Celebrity, Performance, Reception: British Georgian Theatre as Social Assemblage. Eighteenth-Century Fiction 27:3-4 (2015), 742-744.
  • Review of Harriet Guest, Unbounded Attachment: Sentiment and Politics in the Age of the French Revolution. The Review of English Studies, 66:273 (2015), 183-185.
  • Review of Ben P. Robertson, Elizabeth Inchbald's Reputation, The Wordsworth Circle 44 (Autumn 2013), 208-9.
  • Review of Jacqueline Labbe, Writing Romanticism: Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth, 1784-1807, Women's Writing 20 (2012), 604-606.
  • Review of Claire Knowles, Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition, 1780-1860: The Legacy of Charlotte Smith, The European Legacy 17:2 (2012).
  • Review of Daniel Robinson, Mary Robinson: Form and Fame, Review-19, 2011. http://www.nbol-19.org/view_doc.php?index=173.
  • Review of Miriam Wallace, Revolutionary Subjects in the English "Jacobin" Novel, 1790-1805, Eighteenth-Century Fiction 23:2, Winter 2010-11, 438-440.
  • Review of Janet Todd, Death and the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle, Keats-Shelley Journal LVIII (2009), 189-90.
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