Research Expertise and Interest

19th-century British literature, critical theory, disability studies, poetry, Wordsworth, Carlyle, Hardy, Rousseau, the French Revolution, Marxist theory

Research Description

Celeste Langan, Associate Professor in the UC Berkeley Department of English, is the author of Romantic Vagrancy:  Wordsworth and the Simulation of Freedom; another essay, “Mobility Disability,” considers more contemporary issues related to freedom of movement.  She’s written several essays on Romantic “Media Studies,” including “Understanding Media in 1805: Audiovisual Hallucination in The Lay of the Last Minstrel,” "Pathologies of Communication from Coleridge to Schreber," and “The Medium of Romantic Poetry” (co-authored with Maureen McLane). More recently, she’s published an essay on Scott’s Life of Napoleon and one on the poetic refrains of Peterloo and Occupy. Intermittently, she works on a book project titled Post-Napoleonism, the subtitle of which keeps changing.