Bethany Williamson
Graduation Year: 2015
Education
Ph.D., °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â (2015)M.A., °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â (2013)
B.A., Cedarville University (2007)
Interests
17th- and 18th-century British literature; colonial discourse; ecocriticism and environmental literature;contemporary global literatures
Dissertation Title
Currently
Associate Professor of English, Biola University, CA
Publications
Orienting Virtue: Civic Identity and Orientalism in Britain's Global Eighteenth Century. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022.
“Inexhaustible Mines and Postlapsarian Decay: the End of Improvement in Defoe’s Tour.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 32.1 (2019): 79-99.
“Margaret Cavendish, the Royal Society, and the Alchemy of the Arabian Sands.” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 17.1 (2017): 120-146.
