Drury, Joseph

Assistant Professor of English
English Department
860.685.4886

BA Oxford University
MA University of London
PHD University of Pennsylvania

EMAIL:

jdrury@wesleyan.edu

PERSONAL HOME PAGE:

http://jdrury.faculty.wesleyan.edu

COURSES TAUGHT:

ENGL201 - 01
ENGL252 - 01

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Restoration, Eighteenth-Century and Romantic British literature; the novel; theatre; science/technology and literature; gender and sexuality; cultural studies.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Joe Drury's research deals with the relations between literary form and the history of science and technology. He is currently working on a book, THE MACHINE IN THE NOVEL: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND CULTURE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN, which explores the ways in which the rise of the machine in pre-industrial Britain - new mechanistic sciences as well as new technologies - spurred formal innovation in narrative fiction.