Paul Kelleher (B.A., Duke; Ph.D., Princeton) is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Emory University. A specialist in eighteenth-century British literature and gender/sexuality studies, his teaching and research interests range from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, and intersect with the disciplines of moral philosophy and political theory. Currently, he is completing a book project entitled “Men of Feeling: Sentimentalism and the Literary History of Sexuality.”

Selected Publications:

“Madness and Sexuality in the Age of Reason.” (Forthcoming in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.)

“‘The Glorious Lust of Doing Good’: Tom Jones and the Virtues of Sexuality.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 38.2-3 (Spring/Summer 2005): 165-92.

“If Love Were All: Reading Sedgwick Sentimentally.” Regarding Sedgwick: Essays on Queer Culture and Critical Theory. Ed. Stephen M. Barber and David L. Clark. New York: Routledge, 2002. 143-164.