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Rebecca Cole Heinowitz

Bard College
Box 5000
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY12504
845-758-7203
heinowit@bard.edu

Education

  • Ph.D. Brown University, Comparative Literature, May 2003
  • M.A. Brown University, Comparative Literature, May 2000
  • B.A. University of California, San Diego, summa cum laude, December 1995

Dissertation

"An Empire in Men's Hearts:"
The Figure of Spanish America in British and French Romanticism
Director: Nancy Armstrong; Readers: William Keach, Pierre Saint-Amand

Honors and Awards

  • Burke Award, Dartmouth College, 2003-2004
  • Joukowsky Dissertation Fellowship, Brown University, 2003
  • Fulbright Award for Dissertation Research in Spain, 2000-2001
  • Presidential Teaching Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student, Brown University, 2000
  • Francis Mason Harris Prize in Creative Writing, Awarded for Best Book-length Manuscript, Brown University, 2000
  • Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Thesis Research in Peru, 1999
  • University Fellowship, Brown University, 1996-1997
  • Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society, 1995
  • Stewart Prize for Excellence in Creative Writing, University of California, San Diego, 1994 and 1995
  • National Merit Scholarship, 1991-1995

Scholarship

  • "George Crabbe." The Encyclopedia of British Literature. Ed. Stephen Wagley. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming. 12 pp. (MS).
  • "Walter Savage Landor." The Encyclopedia of British Literature. Ed. Stephen Wagley. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming. 12 pp. (MS).
  • "Robert Southey." The Encyclopedia of British Literature. Ed. Stephen Wagley. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming. 12 pp. (MS).
  • "The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism." "Sullen Fires across the Atlantic:" Essays in British and American Romanticism. Ed. Lance Newman and Joel Pace. Romantic Circles Praxis Series, forthcoming. 24 pp. (MS).
  • "'An Empire in Men's Hearts': Helen Maria Williams's Sentimental Conquest of Peru." Connecting Continents: Britain and Latin America, 1780-1900. Ed. Robert D. Aguirre and Ross G. Forman. New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi, forthcoming. 28 pp. (MS).
  • "Arde el Mar: Reformulating the Romantic Symbol, a project in the present progressive." Revista Hispánica Moderna 52 (1999): 477-486.

Work in Progress

Rewriting Conquest: Latin America and the Making of British Romanticism, 1770-1830
Drawing on the growing body of transatlantic scholarship about British literature of the romantic era, I argue that the literature of this period transformed the concept of imperialism from an eighteenth-century mercantile model to the free trade model of Anglo-imperialism that presumed to elevate the morals and manners of those whom the British colonized. Through readings of influential late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century texts that focus on Latin America as the site of colonization, I examine the constitutive relationship between the literature of sensibility and the rhetoric of "good" imperialism. By showing how sensibility cuts across a wide spectrum of political agendas during this period, serving first to critique transatlantic imperialism, then to naturalize, and ultimately to glorify imperialism, I unsettle familiar notions of radical and conservative, anti-imperial and pro-colonial, in the romantic era.

Conference Papers and Invited Talks

  • "'Thy World, Columbus, shall be free:' Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Simón Bolívar," North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, Montreal, September 2005
  • "'Fearful Symmetry' across 'the Atlantic Deep:' Latin America and the Romantic Imagination,"North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, Boulder, Colorado, September 2004
  • "Joel Barlow's Columbiad: Rewriting Conquest in the Transatlantic Nineteenth Century," Romanticism, History, Historicism, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, June 2004
  • "By All (Available) Means: Aesthetics of Violence or Language of Love?" Hip Hop Identities and Poetic Race Relations, Dartmouth College, February 2004
  • "Robert Southey's Legend of the Welsh Indians and the Sentimental Rhetoric of 'Good' Imperialism." ACLA, San Marcos, April 2003
  • "Empire of Sensibility: Helen Maria Williams's Peru and the Expansion of British Identity." ACLA, Yale University, February 2000

Selected Literary Publications and Readings

Monographs:

  • The Rubicon, A Rest Press, New York, forthcoming
  • Stunning in Muscle Hospital, Detour Press, New York, 2002
  • Daily Chimera: poetry, prose, plays, Incommunicado Press, San Diego, 1995

Journal Publications and Collections:

  • American Drivel Review (Boulder, 2004)
  • Free Radicals: Poets Before their First Books (Subpress, 2004).
  • The Poker (Boston, 2004)
  • Hi-Way Robbery (New York, 2004)
  • Canwehaveourballback (Online, 2002)
  • Factorial! (Providence and San Diego, 2001)
  • Readme (Online, 2001)
  • HOW2 (Online, 2000)
  • 6X6 (New York, 2000)
  • Impossible Object (Online, 1998)
  • Mirage 4 Period(ical) (San Francisco, 1996)
  • Proliferation (San Francisco, 1994, 1995)