Professor and Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Chair, Department of English
Research Areas: Eighteenth and nineteenth-century British literature and culture; Arctic humanities; exploration studies; science studies; historical geography; history of collecting; Enlightenment; history of the book and of authorship
Selected Publications:
With Mary Terral, ed. Curious Encounters: Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century (University of Toronto Press, 2018).
Writing Arctic Disaster: Authorship and Exploration (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
Fatal Women of Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
For a detailed academic bio and CV, please see Professor Craciun’s Department Profile.