Erik Bond, Ph.D.
Teaching Areas:
English, Women's & Gender StudiesResearch Areas:
Eighteenth-Century British Literature, English Literature, Gender, Literary Theory and AnalysisBiography and Education
Education
Ph.D, New York University (2001); B.A., University of Pennsylvania (1996)
Creative Work
PERFORMANCE
“Sir Bedevere” in Spamalot: the Musical. The Burns Park Players at the Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor. Running 21 – 24 April 2022.
“George Banks” Lead Actor/Singer in Mary Poppins: the Musical. The Burns Park Players at the Power Center, University of Michigan Ann Arbor Campus. 27 February – 1 March 2020.
Scholarly Publications
BOOK
Reading London: Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-Century Literature. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2007.
ARTICLES
“‘Arrogant Fools with Blunt Instruments’: Brain Surgeons, Novelists, and Metaphor in Ian McEwan’s London.” Urban Monstrosities: Perversity and Upheaval in the Unreal City. Edited by Joseph DeFalco Lamperez and J. Alexandra McGhee. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2017. 60-90.
“Teaching the Teachers: Oroonoko As A Lesson in Critical Self-Consciousness.” Approaches to Teaching Behn’s Oroonoko. New York: Modern Language Association, 2014. 213-220.
“Imagined Communities, Magical Kingdoms, and David Lynch’s Head: What the Pre-Romantic Imagination Can Teach Us.” Confluence: The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies. 16.1 (2010): 41-53.
“Historicizing the ‘New Normal’: London’s Great Fire and the Genres of Urban Destruction.” Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 31.2 (2007): 43-64.
“Bringing Up Boswell: Drama, Criticism, and the Journals.” The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual 15 (2004): 151-176.
“Farewell Mr. Villars: Cecilia and Frances Burney’s ‘Inward Monitor.’” The Eighteenth-Century Novel 3 (2003): 171-193.
“Flights of Madness: Self-Knowledge and Topography in the Cities of Burney and Dickens.”
The Literary London Journal 1.1 (2003), <http://www.literarylondon.org/london- journal/march2003/bond.html>.
SOLICITED BOOK REVIEWS
Solicited Review of The Wreckage of Intentions: Projects in British Culture, 1660-1730 by David Alff. Eighteenth-Century Studies. Vol. 52, no. 3. 361-363 (Spring 2019).
Solicited Review of London in the Eighteenth Century: A Great and Monstrous Thing by Jerry White. The Scriblerian. Vol. 47, no. 1. 78-80 (August 2014).
Solicited Review of Making Waste: Leftovers and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination by Sophie Gee. 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era. 18 (2011).
Solicited Review of Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1660-1770 by Emily Cockayne. 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era. 16 (2009).