Denise Gigante
· Professor of EnglishStanford University · English
Active 1996–2022
About
Denise Gigante is the Sadie Dernham Patek Professor in the Humanities and a Professor of English at Stanford University. She teaches British poetry with a concentration in the Romantic period. Her scholarly work includes authoring books such as Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America, which explores the dispersal of Charles Lamb’s library in the mid-nineteenth century, and The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George. She has also edited The Cambridge History of the British Essay, the first authoritative single-volume history of the essay form's development within the British literary tradition. Her research interests encompass book history, bibliomania, poetry and poetic form, Romanticism, the essay form, transnational studies, William Blake and visual culture, aesthetics, 19th-century transatlanticism, literature and philosophy, and the intersection of literature and life sciences. She is currently completing a work on William Blake’s illuminated poetry in the context of Christian artwork from the late twelfth through the early sixteenth century, focusing on themes of salvation history and the energies of Catholicism as expressed through allegory, symbolism, and schematic diagrams.
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Philosophy
- Literature
- Art
Selected publications
Yale University Press eBooks · 2022
1st authorCorresponding- Computer Science
- Computer Science
Yale University Press eBooks · 2022
1st authorCorresponding- Philosophy
- Art
- Literature
Yale University Press eBooks · 2022
1st authorCorresponding- Computer Science
- Computer Science
Frequent coauthors
- 1 shared
Helen Tartar
- 1 shared
John Glavin
- 1 shared
Renée C. Fox
- 1 shared
Seth Lerer
- 1 shared
Franco Moretti
- 1 shared
Sara Hackenberg
- 1 shared
Simone Piero
- 1 shared
David S. Riggs
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Awards & honors
- New York Times Notable Book and Editor’s Choice for 2011 for…
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