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Ana Acosta

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

Ph.D. with distinction in Comparative Literature, Columbia University NY (1997). Recently published: Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary Shelley. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2006. Education: DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - 1997 (LITERATURE, COMPARATIVE) Areas of Expertise: Teaching and Research Interests: 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, Biblical Translation and Interpretation Peninsular and Latin American Literature Utopias Books and Publications Recently published: Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary Shelley. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2006.-- "The Sadeness of Scott's Utopia: Millenium Hall and The 120 Days of Sodom." In Gender and Utopian Thought in the Eighteenth Century. Ed. Brenda Tooley and Nicole Pohl. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2007. (Books and Publications: Book) 2006