Dr. Christopher Fanning

Biography

Christopher Fanning has been teaching at Queen’s University since 1999. His teaching encompasses both undergraduate and graduate courses, focusing on close reading and the detailed attention to formal material aspects of texts that contribute to meaning. He is also a publisher at Picton Gazette, which is recognized as Canada's oldest weekly newspaper, founded in 1830. His research interests are rooted in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature, with particular attention to satire, the sublime, the novel, and print culture. He studies significant authors including Swift, Pope, Richardson, Sterne, and Austen. Fanning's current research involves modernizing the Picton Gazette for the twenty-first century, contextualizing its reporting within a global framework and exploring its archives to trace connections between the present and the past.

Research Interests