Education

PhD, Graduate Center, City University of New York
MA, Wake Forest University
BA, Appalachian State University

Area(s) of Specialty

Transatlantic Romanticism
Literature and Psychology
Film and Religion
Western Esoteric Traditions
Humanism and Technology

Curriculum Vitae

PDF version, MS Word 2003 version

Contact Information

Office: C113 Tribble Hall
Phone: (336) 758-5746
Email

Dr. Wilson's Website

Courses Taught at WFU

ENG 111 The Gothic
ENG 175 Studies in American Literature
ENG 350 British Romantic Poets
ENG 746 Studies in British Romanticism
ENG 376 American Poetry Before 1900
ENG 772 Studies in American Romanticism

Selected Publications

The Mercy of Eternity: A Memoir of Depression and Grace (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, forthcoming, 2010).

Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy (New York: Sarah Crichton/ Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008).

The Strange World of David Lynch: Transcendental Irony from Eraserhead to Mulholland Dr (New York and London: Continuum International Publishing, 2007). 

The Melancholy Android: On the Psychology of Sacred Machines (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2006). 

Secret Cinema: Gnostic Vision in Film (New York and London: Continuum International Publishing, 2006).