Dr. Brian Bates
Full-Time Lecturer With Joint Appointment in English & Interdisciplinary Studies Departments.
Email: brbates@calpoly.edu
EDUCATION
English Secondary Education License, MSU Denver, 2015
Ph.D., University of Denver, 2005
M.A., Clark University, 2000
B.A., University of Delaware, cum laude 1998
TEACHING & RESEARCH INTERESTS
18th & 19th-Century Literature & Culture
British & Anglophone Literature
Interdisciplinary Theories of Teaching & Learning
Composition & Rhetoric
Popular Culture & Media Studies
COURSES TAUGHT
ENGL 134: Writing & Rhetoric
ENGL 145: Reasoning, Argumentation & Writing
ENGL 231: Masterworks of British Literature: Late 18th-Century to Contemporary
ENGL 333: British Literature in the Age of Romanticism
ISLA 201: Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies
ISLA 240: Introduction to Media Arts & Technology
ISLA 303: Values & Technology
PUBLICATIONS (Peer Reviewed)
Book Monograph
Wordsworth’s Poetic Collections, Supplementary Writing and Parodic Reception. The
History of the Book. Series Ed. Ann R. Hawkins. London: Routledge, Pickering &
Chatto, Summer 2012. https://www.routledge.com/products/9781848931961
(Reviewed in Studies in Romanticism; Romanticism; British Association for
Romantic Studies Bulletin; Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and
Publishing; Review 19; Cercles: Review Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Angleterre)
Edited Journal Volumes
Bicentennial Essays on Keats's 1820 Volume. Special Issue in European Romantic
Review. General Eds. Lucy Morrison and Benjamin Colbert. 33.2 (April, 2022).
Keats in Popular Culture. Romantic Circles Praxis Series. Editor & Introductory Essay,
“Keats in Between.” Series Ed. Orrin Wang. September, 2020.
https://romanticcircles.org/praxis/popkeats
With Tess Somerville. Teaching Romanticism: Miltonic Legacies. Romantic
Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840, Teaching. Series Ed. Daniel
Cook. February, 2017. http://www.romtext.org.uk/teaching-romanticism-xvii-miltonic-legacies/
Journal Articles
"Refreshing Keats's Lamia Volume." Introduction to Special Issue
Bicentennial Essays on Keats's 1820 Volume. Edited by Brian Bates.
European Romantic Review. 33.2 (April 2022): 131-35
"Hyperion's Asterisks: Seeing Stars and Star Power."
Bicentennial Essays on Keats's 1820 Volume. Edited by Brian Bates.
European Romantic Review 33.2 (April 2022): 267-82
“The River Duddon Volume’s Golden Ratio Wheel and ‘Spiraling’ Orbicular Sonnets.”
Wordsworth and The River Duddon: Bicentenary Readings. Ed. Philip Shaw. The
Wordsworth Circle 51.1 (Winter 2020): 1-19.
“Wordsworth, Milton, and the Sonnet as Epic Prelude: A Response to Stephen Fallon
and Henry Weinfield. Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 28 (Dec. 2019).
https://www.connotations.de/article/brian-bates-wordsworth-the-sonnet-as-epic-
“Milton’s Satan, Sin, Death & Gothic Romanticism.” Miltonic Legacies. Romantic
Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840, Teaching. Eds. Brian Bates &
Tess Somerville. Series Ed. Daniel Cook. February, 2017.
http://www.romtext.org.uk/category/blog/teaching-blog/
“Graphic & Digital Keats: ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ in Poetry Comics.” Archives On
Fire. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 16.1 (March 2016).
http://reconstruction.eserver.org/Issues/161/Bates.shtml
“J.H. Reynolds Re-Echoes the Wordsworthian Reputation: ‘Peter Bell,’ Remaking the
Work and Mocking the Man.” Studies in Romanticism 47.3 (Fall 2008): 273-297.
“Wordsworth, Milton, and Parodic Sonnets.” Appositions: Studies in Early Modern
Literature & Culture. Volume I: Genres & Cultures (Spring 2008):
http://appositions.blogspot.com/
“‘Welcome joy, and welcome sorrow’: Fancy, Imagination, and Keats’s Re-Visioning
of ‘L’Allegro’ and ‘Il Penseroso.’” The CEA Critic 67.3 (Summer 2005): 15-27.
“Wordsworth’s Library of Babel: Bibliomania, the 1814 Excursion, and the 1815
Poems.” Romantic Textualities: Literature & Print Culture, 1780-1840 14 (Summer
2005): http://www.romtext.org.uk/articles/cc14_n01/
Book Chapters
Teaching Frakenstein as Pastiche, Parody, and Adaptation in the General Education
Frankenstein and Steam: Essays for Charles E. Robinson. Ed. Robin Hammerman. U. of
Delaware Press, 2022. 135-44
Keats’s Negative Capability: On Pantomime & “Irritable Reaching.” Negative
Capability: New Origins & Afterlives. Eds. Brian Rejack & Michael Theune. Liverpool
UP, 2019. 15-30.
“Activating ‘Tintern Abbey’ in 1815.” Engaged Romanticism: Romanticism as Praxis.
Eds. Mark Lussier and Bruce Matsunaga. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008. 69-81.
“Opening up Chapter 13 of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria: Reception, Humor, and
English Character.” Double Vision: Literary Palimpsests of the 18th- and 19th-
Centuries. Ed. Darby Lewes. Lexington Books, 2008. 83-102.
Reprinted Articles
“‘Welcome joy, and welcome sorrow’: Fancy, Imagination, and Keats’s Re-Visioning
of ‘L’Allegro’ and ‘Il Penseroso.’” Poetry Criticism. Ed. Michelle Lee. Vol. 96.
Detroit: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2009. 309-316. Reprinted from CEA Critic.
Book Reviews
Keats’s Anatomy of Melancholy: Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other
Poems (1820), by R.S. White. Edinburgh UP, 2020. The Keats-Shelley Journal 68
(Forthcoming, Fall 2021).
Romanticism and Caricature, by Ian Haywood. NY: Cambridge UP, 2013. Review 19
(December 2014). http://www.nbol-19.org/view_doc.php?index=371
Comics and the Senses: A Multisensory Approach to Comics and Graphic Novels, by
Ian Hague. NY: Routledge, 2014. ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies 7.4
(December 2014). http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/v7_4/bates/
Shakespeare and the Culture of Romanticism, ed. Joseph Ortiz. Restoration &
Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 28.2 (November 2014): 109-12.
A Short History of Celebrity, by Fred Inglis, and Fashioning Celebrity: 18th-Century
British Actresses and Strategies for Image Making, by Laura Engel. Restoration &
Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 26.1-2 (Summer 2010): 109-113.
Wordsworth Writing, by Andrew Bennet. Romantic Circles (Summer 2009).
http://romantic.arhu.umd.edu/reviews-blog/?s=brian+bates
Theater and Nation in Eighteenth-Century Germany, by Michael J. Sosulski.
Restoration & Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 23.1 (Summer 2008): 82-84.
Authorship and Appropriation, by Paulina Kewes; Playwrights and Plagiarists in Early
Modern England, by Laura J. Rosenthal; and Theatre of the Book: 1480-1880, by Julie
Stone Peters. Restoration & Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 16.1 (Summer
2001): 61-64.
NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
“Yet I ride the little horse.” In ‘Remember me to all friends’: A Collective
Valediction for Keats. The Keats Letters Project. 30 November 2020.
http://keatslettersproject.com/correspondence/remember-me-to-all-friends/
“Keats, Negative Capability, and the Pantomime. The Keats Letters Project. 27
December 2017. http://keatslettersproject.com/correspondence/keats-negative-
WORKS IN PROGRESS (Peer Reviewed)
Book Monograph (Positive Peer Review Report on Proposal &
Sample Chapter)
Keats’s Authorial Play. Liverpool UP. Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in
Literature & Culture, 1780-1850. Series Eds. Tim Fulford & Alan Vardy. Projected
Publication, 2024.