I have been teaching composition and literature at Idaho State University since 1996. I recently completed a 640-page manuscript titled "The Age of Delicacy: Sensibility, Imagination, and Taste in Eighteenth-Century Britain." My next project centers around the classical traditions of eighteenth-century British poetry.

Selected Publications & Presentations

"Teeth: The Decay in Poetry, the Polish in Prose." A History of Teeth. Rendezvous 36.2 (Spring 2002): 67-72.

"Belinda (1801): Maria Edgeworth’s Revision of Pope’s Rape of the Lock." Paper delivered at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Salt Lake City, October 1998.

"The Ambiguity of Dueling: Containing and Constraining Violence." Paper delivered at the Société d’Analyse de la Topique Romanesque (SATOR), International Conference, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, September 1995. Paper published in Violence et fiction jusqu’à la Révolution. Etudes Littéraires Françaises 16 (1998): 337-382.

"Eighteenth-Century Prostitution and the Rhetoric of Capitalism." Paper delivered at the Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 1995.

Courses Taught

• English 1101: English Composition
• English 1102: Critical Reading and Writing
• English 2211: Intro. to Literary Analysis
• English 2257: Survey of World Lit. I
• English 2258: Survey of World Lit. II
• English 2267: Survey of English Lit. I
• English 2268: Survey of English Lit. II
• English 3301: Writing About Literature
• English 4491: Senior Seminar

Office: LA 223
Office Phone: 282-5308
pfisthom@isu.edu