Dr. David Sigler

Biography

David Sigler studies British Romantic literature and literary theory, with particular expertise in Romantic women's writing, including figures such as Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft, as well as psychoanalytic theory from theorists such as Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. He has authored multiple books including "Sexual Enjoyment in British Romanticism" and "Fracture Feminism: The Politics of Impossible Time in British Romanticism." Sigler has also published dozens of articles and chapters addressing diverse topics, ranging from John Keats's explorations of pleasure to the paradoxes of the death penalty as presented by Mary Shelley, and the experience of time in Jane Austen's work. His editorial projects include co-editing significant collections that delve into Lacanian interpretations of Romanticism and explorations of Romantic women's writing. Currently, he is engaged in a research project that examines the themes of rule-following in British Romantic literature and is interested in mentoring both graduate and undergraduate students in the fields of British Romanticism, eighteenth and nineteenth-century British Literature, post-structuralist theory, psychoanalytic theory, deconstruction, and the history of feminism in British literature.

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