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