Scott Enderle
Visiting Assistant Professor
OFFICE: Palamountain 332
PHONE: (518) 580-5191
EMAIL: jenderle@skidmore.edu
EDUCATION:
B.A. Texas A & M University
M.A. and Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- British Literature, eighteenth century to the present
- History of the Book
- Gender Theory
- Literary Theory
- Philosophy of Mathematics
COURSES:
- EN 105: Gotham Writing Seminar
- EN 211: Introduction to Fiction
- EN 229: Criminal Stories
- EN 362: History, Autobiography, Novel
- EN 362: Secret Histories
- EN 362: Eighteenth-Century Philosophy and Literature
- EN 363: Irish Fiction from Swift to Joyce
RESEARCH:
- Fictional Possession: Communicating Literary Property, 1710-1774. This book manuscript argues that copyright law grew out of transformations in eighteenth-century views of communication. Challenging the widespread critical narrative associating copyright law with the rise of romantic authorship, I link copyright to the empirical claim that ideas are not innate, but acquired through experience, a claim that jurists, philosophers, and authors took up as they envisioned new systems for communicating ideas to a burgeoning mass audience: the readers of novels.
- "Replenishing the Empty Commons: Neoplatonism and Eighteenth-Century Copyright."
PUBLICATIONS:
- "The Vulnerable Page: Patronage, Copyright and the Material Text in Tristram Shandy." Forthcoming in The Shandean 23 (2012).
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS:
- Brizdle-Schoenberg Fellowship in the History of Material Texts, 2010-2011
- Mellon Graduate Research Fellowship, Penn Humanities Forum, 2010-2011
- Pew Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania 2008, 2009
- Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2004-2009