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Curriculum Vitae
Christopher Flint
Office Address:
Home Address:
Case Western Reserve University
Department of English
10900 Euclid Ave.
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7117
(216) 368-2362
3294 Chalfant St.
Shaker Heights, OH 44120
(216) 751-0139
cxf33@po.cwru.edu
Education:
1983-1988:
1981-1982:
1976-1980:
Ph. D., English, University of Pennsylvania
M. A., English, University of Pennsylvania
B. A., English, Oberlin College
Professional Employment:
1998:
1991-1998:
1988-1991:
Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Books:
Family Fictions: Narrative and Domestic Relations in Britain, 1688-1789 (Stanford
University Press, 1998; paperback edition, 2000).
Articles and Chapters:
“Speaking Objects: The Circulation of Stories in Eighteenth-Century Prose Fiction,” in
Inanimate Narration, ed. Mark Blackwell, Bucknell UP, forthcoming. Rvsd.
“The Novel and Print Culture: A Proposed Modesty.” In The Blackwell Companion to the
Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture, ed. Paula Backscheider and Catherine
Ingrassia, Blackwell, 2005.
“La Carne del Poeta: Representaciones del Cuerpo en Romancero Gitano y Poeta en Nueva
York,” in Estudios sobre la poesía de García Lorca, ed. Luis Fernández-Cifuentes
(Madrid: Editorial Istmo, 2005).
“In Other Words: Eighteenth-Century Authorship and the Ornaments of Print,” EighteenthCentury Fiction 14 (April-July 2002): 627-72), vol. titled Fiction and Print Culture.
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“Flesh of the Poet: Representations of the Body in Lorca's Romancero Gitano and Poeta en
Nueva York,” in Spanish Literature: 1700 to the Present, ed. David William Foster,
Carmen de Urioste, and David Atamiranda (New York: Garland Press, 2001). Rpt.
“Speaking Objects: The Circulation of Stories in Eighteenth-Century Prose Fiction,” PMLA
113 (March 1998): 212-226.
“‘The Family Piece’: Oliver Goldsmith and the Politics of the Everyday in EighteenthCentury Domestic Portraiture,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 29 (Winter 1996): 127-152.
“Orphaning the Family: The Role of Kinship in Robinson Crusoe,” in Daniel Defoe's Robinson
Crusoe, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House, 1990). Rpt.
“The Anxiety of Affluence: Class (Dis)order in Pamela,” Studies in English Literature 15001900 29 (Summer 1989): 489-514.
“Orphaning the Family: The Role of Kinship in Robinson Crusoe,” ELH 55 (Summer 1988):
381-419.
“Flesh of the Poet: Representations of the Body in Lorca's Romancero Gitano and Poeta en
Nueva York,” Papers on Language and Literature 24 (Spring 1988): 177-211.
Book Reviews:
“Cynthia Wall, The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth
Century,” Modern Language Quarterly (forthcoming).
“Jody Greene, The Trouble with Ownership: Literary Property and Authorial Liability in
England, 1660-1730,” 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern
Era 13 (Summer 2006).
“Laura Brown, Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century,”
South Atlantic Review (Summer 2005): 122-23.
“George Justice, The Manufacturers of Literature: Writing and the Literary Marketplace in
Eighteenth-Century England," Eighteenth-Century Fiction 16 (January 2004): 319-21.
“Lorna Ellis, Appearing to Diminish: Female Development and the British Bildungsroman,
1750-1850 and Ellen Gardiner, Regulating Readers: Gender and Literary Criticism in
the Eighteenth-Century Novel,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 13 (July 2001): 598-600.
“Paula Backscheider, Moll Flanders: The Making of a Criminal Mind and Michael Seidel,
'Robinson Crusoe': Island Myths and the Novel,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 5
(October 1992): 76-77.
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Book in Progress:
The Fate of the Page: Materiality in Eighteenth-Century British Prose Fiction. This book
relates innovations in print technology to typographical experimentation within
eighteenth-century prose fiction. It argues that such narratives assume particular forms
and popularity in the period largely as a result of the distinctive and rapid dispersion of
print technology and that complex attitudes toward the resources of print are shaped in
part by the way in which literary artifacts like the novel confront their own textual
nature.
Conference Papers, Chaired Panels, and Lectures:
“Purloining Letters: Author as Thief in Eighteenth-Century Fiction.” American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Atlanta, April 2007 (invited).
“Textuality and the Eighteenth-Century Novel.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies Conference, Boston, April 2005 (invited).
Chair and Co-organizer, “Austen and The Eighteenth-Century Online: A Symposium,”
Kelvin Smith Library, Case Western Reserve University, Fall 2004 (invited).
“Female Print: Gender and Text in the Late Eighteenth-Century Novel.” North American
Conference on British Studies, Baltimore, November 2002.
“The Art of Noise.” Austen Symposium, Baker Nord Center, Case Western Reserve
University, Cleveland, October 2001 (invited).
“The Mechanics of Fame.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference,
Philadelphia, April 2000.
“In the Absence of Words: Eighteenth-Century Authorship and the Ornaments of Print.”
Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities Work-in-Progress Colloquium, Cleveland,
October 1999 (invited).
“Satiric Print.” M/MLA Convention, Chicago, November 1997.
“Printer's Symbols and Sites of Writing.” Cultures of Writing Conference, Society for Critical
Exchange, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, March 1997.
“Marginal Print: Paratext and Eighteenth-Century British Prose Narrative.” MLA
Convention, Washington, December 1996.
“Book Culture in the Eighteenth Century.” Newberry Library Fellows Seminar, Chicago,
October 1996 (invited).
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Panel Chair, “Material Words: Print Culture in Britain and America, 1680-1820.” American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Austin, March 1996.
“The Culture of Print.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Austin,
March 1996.
Panel Chair, “The Matter of Words: English and American Print Culture, 1680-1850.” MLA
Convention, Chicago, December 1995.
“To Coin a Phrase: Talking Money in Eighteenth-Century Fiction.” MLA Convention,
Chicago, December 1995.
“Speaking Objects: Eighteenth-Century Prose Fiction and the Fear of Publishing.” Canadian
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Windsor, October 1995 (invited).
“Authorship and the Material Aspects of Publishing.” McMaster University, May 1995
(invited).
“Circulating Manuscripts: The Novel and Eighteenth-Century Print Culture.” American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Tucson, April 1995.
“From Romance to Scandal: 'Female Arts' in Aphra Behn's The Fair Jilt.” Northeast MLA
Conference, Buffalo, April 1992.
“The Domestic Portrait; or an Historical Family Piece: Iconology, Ideology, Genealogy.”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Seattle, March 1992.
“Governing Liberty: Locke and Some Thoughts on Education.” American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, New Orleans, April 1989.
“Patriarchy and Eighteenth-Century Philosophical Discourse.” American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, New Orleans, April 1989 (invited).
“Orphaning the Family: Crusoe and Kinship.” NEMLA Conference, Boston, April 1987.
Research Interests:
Eighteenth-century British prose fiction; eighteenth-century literature and culture;
history and theory of the novel; narrative and critical theory; history of the family;
literature and the history of sexuality; history of print technology; eighteenth-century
British art.
Teaching Interests:
Eighteenth-century British prose fiction; eighteenth-century literature and culture; the novel
(all periods); modern poetry; narrative and critical theory; Latin-American narrative;
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literature and family ideology; the history of sexuality; print culture; eighteenth-century
British art; film.