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Ana Acosta

Assc Professor   Department: English   Location: 4215 Boylan Hall   Phone: 718-951-5829   Fax: 718-951-4612   Email:

Education: Ph.D. (with distinction), Columbia University - 1997 (Comparative Literature) Areas of Expertise: Professor Acosta's teaching and research interests include Restoration and 18th-century literature; early modern women writers; critical theory of the 18th century; comparative literature of the Enlightenment (British, French, German, Spanish); libertine fiction; religion, science and enlightenment; dictionaries, encyclopedias, and Biblical translation and interpretation; peninsular and Latin American literature; utopias Books and Publications "Mary Wollstonecraft." The Dictionary of Women Interpreters of Scripture. Ed. Marion Ann Taylor. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic Press. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2010 Acosta, Ana M. and David L. Pike. Literature: A World of Writing. Longman: http://vigstage.pearsonhighered.com/showcase/pike1e (Books and Publications: Book) 2010 "The Sadeness of Scott's Utopia: Millenium Hall and The 120 Days of Sodom." Gender and Utopian Thought in the Eighteenth Century. Eds. Brenda Tooley and Nicole Pohl. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2007 Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary Shelley. Aldershot (Hampshire), United Kingdom, and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate. (Books and Publications: Book) 2006 "Papist Hotbeds: Convents in the Literary Imagination of Eighteenth-Century Britain." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 15:3-4 (April-July 2003): 615-42. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2003 "Spaces of Dissent and the Public Sphere in Hackney and Newington Green." Eighteenth-Century Life 27:1 (Winter 2003): 1-27. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2003 "Conjectures and Speculations: Jean Astruc, Obstetrics and Biblical Criticism in Eighteenth-Century France." Eighteenth-Century Studies 35:2 (Winter 2001): 256-66. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2001 Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums "Reading the Clouds." 39th Annual Meeting of the American Society for 18th Century Studies. Richmond, Virginia, March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009 "Material Spirits." Department of English, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, September. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 "Utopia in a Dumpster." 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies, Toronto, October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007 "Anatomical Manipulations: Religious Iconography and Medical Modeling." 37th Annual Meeting of the American Society for 18th-Century Studies, Montreal, March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006 "The Ideal Body of Eighteenth-Century Waxworking." 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies, Toronto, October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2004 "Corporeal Machinery and Theatrical Anatomy." Comparative Studies in 18th-Century Literature Session on Artificial Intelligences, Automata, and Other Unnatural Subjects, Modern Languages Association Annual Convention, San Diego, December. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003