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University of Wyoming
Eric W. Nye

Eric W. Nye
Associate Professor
B.A. St. Olaf College 1974; M.A. University of Chicago 1976; Ph.D. 1983
nye@uwyo.edu • 307-766-3244 • Hoyt Hall 308

 

Office Hours: MWF 9:30-10:30

 

 

Eric W. Nye visits the memorial to Jane Austen in Winchester Cathedral, July 2002.

Cambridge University Basketball Club, 1979-1980
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Academic Positions

Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Wyoming, 1989-
Adjunct Professor, Religious Studies Program, 1998-

Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 1987

Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Wyoming, 1983-89

Supervisor, Cambridge Studies Program, 1980-82

Supervisor/Tutor in American Literature, Cambridge University, 1979-82

Teaching Intern in Freshman Humanities, University of Chicago, 1978

Tutor in College Writing Committee, University of Chicago, 1976-79

Graduate Assistant, Philosophical Ideas in Literature, St. Olaf College, Prof. Howard Hong, 1974-75

Published Works

Reviews, The Romantic Reformation: Religious Politics in English Literature 1789-1824 (1997) by Robert M. Ryan and Romantic Atheism: Poetry and Freethought, 1780-1830 (1999) by Martin Priestman for Eighteenth Century Studies 35:2 (Winter 2002) 323:25.

"John Sterling," in New Dictionary of National Biography, ed. Colin Matthew & Brian Harrison (Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2004).

"John Sterling," for Carlyle Encyclopedia, ed. Mark Cumming (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002).

"Moncure Daniel Conway," for Carlyle Encyclopedia, ed. Mark Cumming (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002).

"The British Literary Book Trade, 1700-1820: Effingham Wilson." Dictionary of Literary Biography, ed. James K. Bracken and Joel Silver (Gale Research, Inc., 1995) 152: 284-90.

"Effingham Wilson, the Radical Publisher of the Royal Exchange." Publishing History 36 (1994): 87-102.

"British Romantic Novelists, 1789-1832: John Sterling." Dictionary of Literary Biography, ed. Bradford K. Mudge (Gale Research, Inc., 1992) 116: 343-50.

Review Article, Young Coleridge and the Philosophers of Nature (1989), by Ian Wylie, and Coleridge and The Friend (1988), by Deirdre Coleman. Modern Philology 89 (Nov. 1991): 285-92.

"Coleridge and the Publishers: Twelve New Manuscripts." Modern Philology 87 (Aug. 1989): 51-72.

"Carlyle and John Sterling." Papers of the Carlyle Society (Edinburgh), n.s. 1 (1988): 1-17.

"Five Letters of John Stuart Mill in the Reed Collection." Mill News Letter 23 (Winter 1988): 21-24.

Review of Coleridge and the Concept of Nature (1985), by Raimonda Modiano. Modern Philology 86 (Aug. 1988): 97-100.

"An Edition of John Sterling Uncovers New Carlyle Letters." Carlyle Newsletter 9 (Spring 1988): 43-50.

Review of Cambridge University Library, A History: From the Beginnings to the Copyright Act of Queen Anne (1986), by J. C. T. Oates. Eighteenth Century Current Bibliography, n.s. 13 (1987):

Review of Cambridge University Library, A History: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1986), by David McKitterick. Eighteenth Century Current Bibliography, n.s. 13 (1987):

Review of Coleridge and the Inspired Word (1985), by Anthony J. Harding. Modern Philology 85 (Nov. 1987): 211-14.

"Big Game on the Editor's Desk: Roosevelt and Bierstadt's Tale of the Hunt." New England Quarterly 60 (Sept. 1987): 454-65.

"Coleridge and the Berkshire Chronicle: A New Manuscript Letter and 'A Tale of Horror'." Philological Quarterly 64 (Fall 1985): 584-92.

"Coleridge to Joseph Hughes: A Newly Identified Letter." The Library (London), 6th ser., 6 (Dec. 1984): 376-80.

"A Portrait of the Sage at Highgate." The Wordsworth Circle 13 (Autumn 1982): 231-33.

Interests & Hobbies

Rare books, church history, classical music, travel, hiking, telecommunications, computers and the humanities, gardening, plumbing.

Teaching Awards

2007 Extraordinary Merit Award for Teaching
2004 Seibold Professorship
Fred Slater Teaching Award

 

 

 

Research Interests:
Writing the life and collecting the letters of John Sterling (1806-1844), protg of Coleridge, leader of the Cambridge Apostles, poet, novelist, tragedian, subject of Thomas Carlyles biography, friend of Mill, Emerson, Tennyson, Julius Charles Hare.

 

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