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David Sigler

Positions

Professor

Faculty of Arts, Department of English

Contact information

Email

dsigler@ucalgary.ca

Location

office: SS1014

Background

Educational Background

Ph.D. English, University of Virginia, 2008

Sigler, David - CV

Biography

David Sigler studies British Romantic literature and literary theory. He has particular expertise in Romantic women's writing (e.g., Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft) and psychoanalytic theory (e.g., Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan).

He is the author of two books: Sexual Enjoyment in British Romanticism (MQUP 2015) and Fracture Feminism: The Politics of Impossible Time in British Romanticism (SUNY 2021), and dozens of articles and chapters. Recent articles have discussed the waywardness of pleasure in John Keats, the paradoxes of the death penalty in Mary Shelley, and the experience of time in Jane Austen.

He is co-editor of the journal Romanticism on the Net. Other editorial projects have included Lacan and Romanticism (SUNY 2019, co-edited with Daniela Garofalo) and Romantic Women's Writing and Sexual Transgression (Edinburgh UP 2024, co-edited with Kathryn Ready). There is a CV available on this page with a full listing of publications and talks. His current research project concerns rule-following in British Romantic literature.

He is interested in working with graduate and undergraduate students in the areas of British Romanticism, eighteenth or nineteenth-century British Literature, any aspect of post-structuralist theory, psychoanalytic theory, deconstruction, and/or the history of feminism in British literature.

Research

Areas of Research

British Romanticism, Psychoanalysis (esp. Freud, Lacan), Women's writing, Theory

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
ENGL 251 Literature and Society Fall 2024
ENGL 426 Freud, Lacan, Zizek Fall 2024
ENGL 307 British-Irish Isles Literature After 1700 Winter 2025
ENGL 519/609 Romanticism and Rules Winter 2025 Block Week

Awards

  • SSHRC Insight Grant: "The Erotics of Rule-Following in British Romanticism", Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. 2023
  • Honourable mention, U. of Calgary Students’ Union Teaching Excellence Award, University of Calgary. 2022
  • SSHRC Insight Grant: "Women’s Writing and the Contemporary Future in British Romanticism", Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. 2017
  • SSHRC IDG Enhancement Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. 2015

Publications

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