Dr. Eric Wilson
Professor of English
Contact
Worrell House
Email: wilsoneg@wfu.edu
Degrees
PhD Graduate Center, City University of New York
MA Wake Forest University
BA Appalachian State University
Areas of Interest
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American Culture and Mental Health
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Transatlantic Romanticism
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The Gothic
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Literature and Psychology
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Film and Religion
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Western Esoteric Traditions
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Humanism and Technology
Courses Taught at Wake Forest
ENG 111 The Gothic
ENG 350 British Romantic Poets
ENG 372 American Romanticism
ENG 376 American Poetry Before 1900
ENG 746 Studies in British Romanticism
ENG 772 Studies in American Romanticism
Selected Publications
Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck; or, Why We Can’t Stop Looking at Terrible Things (New York: Sarah Crichton/ Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, forthcoming, 2012).
My Business Is To Create: Blake’s Infinite Writing (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2011).
The Mercy of Eternity: A Memoir of Depression and Grace (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 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).
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