Aaron Worth

Associate Professor, Rhetoric

Rhetoric and Technology, History of the Essay, Writing and Media History

Victorian Literature and Culture, History of Science, Cognitive Literary Studies, and Media Studies

Books

Editor of Out of the Past and Other Tales of Haunted History (British Library, 2024)

Editor of The Wendigo and Other Stories (Oxford University Press, 2023)

Editor of The Night Wire and Other Tales of Weird Media (British Library, 2022)

Editor of The Virgin of the Seven Daggers and Other Stories (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Editor of Randalls Round (British Library, 2021)

Editor of Green Tea and Other Weird Tales (Oxford University Press, 2020)

Editor of The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Articles

“Wires,” in Technology and Literature, ed. Adam Hammond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2023)

“The Squid and the Lentil: A-Hundred-and-Fifty Years under the Sea,” Dickens Studies Annual 51.2 (2020)

“Uchronia,” Victorian Literature and Culture 46.3-4 (August 2018)

“James, Marsh, Wilde: Uncanny Kinetics in the 1890s,” Victorian Literature and Culture 44.2 (2016)

“’Thinketh: Browning and Other Minds,” Victorian Poetry 50.2 (Summer 2012): 127-146.

“Arthur Machen and the Horrors of Deep History,” Victorian Literature and Culture 40.1 (2012): 215-227.

“Imperial Transmissions: H.G. Wells, 1897-1901,” Victorian Studies 53.1, pp. 65-89 (Fall 2010).

“Tennyson and the Poetics of Alterity,” Victorian Newsletter 117, pp. 75-89 (Spring 2010).

“ALL INDIA BECOMING TRANQUIL: Wiring the Raj,” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 9:1 (Spring 2008).

“Edith Wharton’s Poetics of Telecommunication,” Studies in American Fiction 36:1, pp. 95-121 (Spring 2008).

Conference organizer/host, Northeast Victorian Studies Association Conference at Boston University (Spring 2013).

Editorial Board, Impact: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning (2011).