Carrie Shanafelt

Carrie Shanafelt specializes in British and American literature of the long eighteenth century. Her dissertation, Common Sense: The Rise of Narrative in the Age of Self-Evidence, examines the rhetorical use of fictional narratives in eighteenth-century British philosophy and early novels. At Franklin & Marshall College, Yeshiva University, and Queens College, Carrie has taught various courses on seventeenth- to nineteenth-century British and American poetry and prose, including courses on Milton and Romantic poetry, the Gothic novel, literature of slavery and economics, and eighteenth-century satire. Her current research interests include aesthetic theory, eighteenth-century representations of sex, and definitions of human rights that emerged during the Atlantic slave trade.