Carrie
Shanafelt
Carrie Shanafelt is an interdisciplinary scholar of literature and philosophy of the long eighteenth century in Great Britain and the Americas. Her research engages with eighteenth-century legal and economic theory, ethics, gender, sexuality, slavery, and aesthetics. She also serves as the chair of the
2026 Lillian F. and William L. Silber Professor of the Year
Book:
(University of Virginia Press, 2022)
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
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鈥,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Revue d鈥櫭﹖udes benthamiennes 20 (2021)
鈥,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Eighteenth-Century Studies 55.1 (2021), pp. 21-43
鈥,鈥&苍产蝉辫;The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 61.3 (2020), pp. 335-352
鈥,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory 31.3 (2020), pp. 203-221
鈥,鈥&苍产蝉辫;College English Association Forum 43.2 (2014), pp. 1-18
鈥,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory 24.4 (2013), pp. 261-277
Book Chapters:
鈥,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, ed. Jack Lynch, Oxford Univ. Press (2022), pp. 567-581
鈥溾&苍产蝉辫;Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists, ed. Anthony Lee (Clemson: Clemson Univ. Press, 2019), pp. 165-187
鈥淭he Rhetoric of Consensus: Hume and Fielding on Moral Sentiment鈥&苍产蝉辫;David Hume: A Tercentenary Tribute, ed. Stanley Tweyman (Ann Arbor: Caravan, 2013), pp. 85-106
Other:
, Speculative Enterprise: Public Theaters and Financial Markets in London, 1688-1763, in Eighteenth-Century Studies, 56.4 (2023), pp. 649-651
, ed., The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman and other Queer Nineteenth-Century Short Stories, in ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 12.1 (2022)
, Downward Mobility: The Form of Capital and the Sentimental Novel, in ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 11.2 (2021)
, Making Love: Sentiment and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, in The Shandean 27 (2017), pp. 158-159
, The Impotency Poem from Ancient Latin to Restoration Literature, in Renaissance Quarterly 69.2 (2016), pp. 796-798