office: 326 Tate phone: 573-882-0667 email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. office hours: T/R 2:30-3:30 and by appointment Research and teaching areas: Romantic period

Noah Heringman teaches courses on the Romantic period and on poetry, aesthetic theory, and the cultural history of science. He has published Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology (Cornell University Press, 2004), a study of the relationship between British Romanticism and early earth science. Heringman has also published an edited collection, Romantic Science: The Literary Forms of Natural History (SUNY Press, 2003), featuring essays by several distinguished scholars in the field. His articles and chapters have appeared in SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Studies in Romanticism, The Huntington Library Quarterly, and other journals and collections. His latest book, Sciences of Antiquity: Antiquarianism and Natural History in the Romantic Age, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

Education
PhD 1998, Harvard University

Selected Publications

• "Romanticism," in The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science, ed. Bruce C. Clarke and Manuela Rossini (New York: Routledge, 2011), 462-73.

•  "Romantic Explorations of Antiquity: Customs and Manners in d'Hancarville's Antiquités Etrusques, Grecques, et Romaines," in Romantic Explorations: Papers from the Koblenz Conference, ed. Michael Meyer (Trier: Wisseschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2010), 149-71.

• "Geology's Youthful Romance with the Landscape" (essay review), Earth Sciences History 29.2 (Fall 2010): 346-52.

• "Natural History in the Romantic Period," in A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age, ed. Jon Klancher (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009), 141-67.

• "'Very vain is Science' proudest boast': The Resistance to Geological Theory in Early Nineteenth-Century England," in The Revolution in Geology from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, ed. Gary D. Rosenberg (Boulder: Geological Society of America, 2009), 235-45.

• "Picturesque Ruin and Geological Antiquity: Thomas Webster and Sir Henry Englefield on the Isle of Wight," in The Making of the Geological Society of London, ed. Simon J. Knell and Cherry Lewis (London: Geological Society, 2009), 299-317.

• "'Manlius to Peter Pindar': Satire, Masculinity and Patriotism in the 1790s," Romantic Circles Praxis Series (May 2006) www.rc.umd.edu

Courses Taught

• English 3200: Survey of British Literature, Beginning to 1784

• English 4100/7100: Literature of Travel, Exploration, and Discovery

• English 4250/7250: British Romanticism

• English 4970: Literature and Science

• English 8070: History of Criticism and Theory

• English 8250: Romanticism and Visual Culture