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Sophie Thomas joined the English Department at Toronto Metropolitan University in 2009, following positions at the University of Sussex in the UK and the University of Toronto. Her research explores the crosscurrents of visual culture, material culture, and literary texts, contributing numerous articles and book chapters on topics related to Romanticism, museums, and visual culture. She is co-editing the Edinburgh Companion to Romanticism and the Arts along with a special issue of the Museum Society focused on collective knowledge and objects in museums. Currently, Thomas is completing a book on the objects and collections in museums during the Romantic period, titled 'The Romantic Museum, 1770 – 1830: Matter, Memory, Poetics of Things', and she is pursuing a new SSHRC-funded project examining the intersections between Romanticism, museums, and the poetics of sculpture. Her work includes the publication 'Romanticism and Visuality: Fragments, History, Spectacle', investigating various 'sites' of seeing and the impact of new visual media on the literary historical imagination.
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