Erin Mackie

A native of Baltimore , Erin Mackie majored in Classics at The Johns Hopkins University and then went on to get a Ph.D. in English from Princeton University . She specializes in Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature and culture and has taught both in the United States and abroad in Tokyo and in New Zealand . Her three books explore her interest in literature and cultural history. The first, Market a la Mode examines how the early eighteenth-century magazines The Tatler and The Spectator use fashion as an avenue of socio-cultural management. Her selected edition of these periodicals, The Commerce of Everyday Life, is organized around the themes of commerce, fashion, gender, and taste that define life in eighteenth-century London . Her recent study of masculinity, Rakes, Highwaymen, and Pirates, looks at those infamous criminal types in relation to the iconic English gentleman. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the eighteenth-century novel, theories of the novel, Restoration literature, the long eighteenth century, and colonialism and culture in the early modern Caribbean . She is now embarking on a study of the criminal romances known as Newgate novels.

Areas of Supervision : I have supervised MA and Ph.D. theses in both eighteenth-century studies and in popular culture.  Eighteenth-century topics include: female desire in Burney and Edgeworth; Jane Austen and community; Swift's satire of the book; heroic drama and political crisis; early modern women writers and print culture.  Topics outside the eighteenth century have focused on culture and style, postcolonialism, gender and sexuality, ethnicity, and contemporary music cultures. 

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