Denise Gigante, Associate Professor

Primary Office: 460-329
Office Hours: M/W: 12:00-1:30 & by appt.
Office Phone: 650-725-7080

At Stanford Since: 2000

Email: dgigante@stanford.edu

Current Year's Courses:

Introduction to Graduate Studies

The Great Age of the English Essay

Poetry and Poetics

Degrees:

B.A., Yale University, 1987

M.A., Princeton University, 1997

Ph.D., Princeton University, 2000

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Denise Gigante, Associate Professor of English, teaches eighteenth and nineteenth-century British literature with a focus on Romanticism. Her books include Life: Organic Form and Romanticism (Yale UP, 2009), The Great Age of the English Essay: An Anthology (Yale UP, 2008),  Taste: A Literary History (Yale UP, 2005),  and Gusto: Essential Writings in Nineteenth-Century Gastronomy (Routledge, 2005). She is currently working on The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George with Lawrence M. Crutcher (a descendant of George Keats) and a book about American bibliophilia and British Romanticism.