Denise Gigante, Associate Professor

Primary Office: 460-329
Office Hours: By appointment
Office Phone: 650-725-7080

At Stanford Since: 2000

Email: dgigante@stanford.edu

Current Year's Courses:

Introduction to Graduate Studies

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 has published essays on Milton (Diacritics), Blake (Nineteenth-Century Literature), Coleridge (European Romantic Review), Keats (PMLA), Sartre and Beckett (Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net), Tennyson (NCL), Mary Shelley (ELH), and the philosopher Slavoj Zizek (New Literary History). She is currently working on The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George for Harvard University Press.