Carrie Shanafelt

Carrie Shanafelt

Associate Professor of Literature and Philosophy,
Department of Literature, Language, Writing, and Humanities

Contact Information

Courses

• Seventeenth-Century Poetry
• Eighteenth-Century Novels
• Eighteenth-Century Satire
• Romantic Era
• Victorian Era
• Gothic in Fiction and Film
• Bible and Its Influence
• Slavery and Global Ethics
• Modern Philosophy
• Shakespeare I and II
• LGBTQ+ Literature
• Theories of Gender and Sexuality
• Children’s Literature
• Literary Analysis
• Poetic Analysis
• Film Analysis
• British and European Literature II
• American Literature I

Research

• Enlightenment philosophy
• Aesthetic theory
• Human rights and legal justice
• Sexuality in literature and philosophy
• Eighteenth-century economics and slavery
• Poetry and poetics
• Critical theory
• Film studies

Education

• BA, Case Western Reserve University
• MA, Case Western Reserve University
• PhD, Graduate Center, City University of New York

Academic Profile

Carrie Shanafelt is the author of Uncommon Sense: Jeremy Bentham, Queer Aesthetics, and the Politics of Taste (University of Virginia Press, 2021), as well as several articles and book chapters on eighteenth-century philosophy, literature, and sexuality. She is working on a second book project on Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Atlantic slavery, and finance. For a list of her publications, projects, and talks, see her personal website at https://www.carrieshanafelt.com/