Tim Cassedy

Associate Professor

Email

tcassedy@smu.edu

Office Location

DH G26

Phone

214-768-4976

Website

https://www.timcassedy.com/

Education

Ph.D., New York University

Tim Cassedy specializes in American and transatlantic literature, the cultural history of reading, and the history of readers’ relationships with texts. His book, Figures of Speech: Six Histories of Language and Identity in the Age of Revolutions, was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2019.

Selected Publications

  • "Types of Reading, Types of Pleasure: Pantographia and the Specimens of Globalization," Word & Image 34:2 (spring 2018).
  • "'A Dictionary Which We Do Not Want': Defining America Against Noah Webster, 1783–1810," William and Mary Quarterly 71:2 (April 2014).
  • "Seeing the Rebel: Or, How to Do Things with Dictionaries in Nineteenth-Century America," J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 2:1 (spring 2014).
  • "The Long Tail of Literary Studies," Archive Journal 3 (summer 2013).

Courses Taught

  • 1380 American Bestsellers, 1700–1900
  • 2312 Fiction: The Uses of Storytelling
  • 2315 Introduction to Literary Study
  • 3346 American Literary History I
  • 3347 The White Whale: America from Moby-Dick to True Detective
  • 4339 Transatlantic Studies I: The American Reading Nation in the Atlantic World, 1700-1850
  • 4339 Transatlantic Studies I: Going Native
  • 4349 Transatlantic Studies II: Tough Mothers, 1740–1900
  • 4349 Transatlantic Studies II: The Umbrella Man
  • 6310 Advanced Literary Studies
  • 6345 Printing Madness: Print Culture and Mental Illness, 1750–1900
  • 7350 Media Ideologies in the 18th-Century Anglophone Atlantic
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