Dr. Jonathan Sachs

Biography

Jonathan Sachs is a Professor in the English Department at Concordia University. His work focuses on British literature from 1750 to 1850 and explores the role of literature in constructing historical temporal experience. He employs concepts from antiquity and anticipates future trends within reading practices. He is currently working on a monograph titled 'Slow Time: Literary Experiment.' Sachs is also the author of 'Poetics of Decline in British Romanticism' (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and 'Romantic Antiquity: Rome in the British Imagination, 1789-1832' (Oxford University Press, 2010). He has served as the Principal Investigator for the Interacting Print Research Group from 2014 to 2020 and has been involved with the Romanticism section of Blackwell’s Literature Compass as an editor from 2015 to 2020. Sachs's research has received support from various fellowships, including the SSHRC residential fellowships and the National Humanities Center in the United States. He has held Visiting Fellowships at Clare Hall and Trinity Hall in Cambridge and was the Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol in March 2010. His teaching interests include literature from the British Romantic period, with a particular focus on poetry.

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