NICHOLAS HALMI

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
University of Washington

Department of English
University of Washington
Box 354330
Seattle, WA 98195–4330
USA

nh2 at u.washington.edu

Publications | Professional activities | Graduate supervision

• The Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol (Oxford University Press, 2007) (Corrigenda: downloadable as a PDF file in letter size or A4 size)
  Read the review in Times Higher Education
• Editor, Fearful Symmetry, vol. 14 of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye (University of Toronto Press, 2004) (Corrigenda: p. 82 n. 51: for Propety read Property; p. 197 n. 17: the note should have specified that the story of Giotto's circle is in Vasari's Life; p. 497 (index): add Hadrian, 433n.25; p. 506 (index s.v. Paine): date of The Age of Reason should be 1795.)
• Co-editor with Paul Magnuson and Raimonda Modiano, Norton Critical Edition of Coleridge's Poetry and Prose (New York: Norton, 2003) (Corrigenda will be incorporated in future printings; users of the edition are asked to notify me of any they discover)
• Assistant editor, Opus Maximum, vol. 15 of The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Princeton University Press, 2002) (I edited the text; prepared the textual apparatus, statement of editorial policy, and headnotes; and selected the illustrations) (Corrigenda: p. xvii, l. 14: for as compromise read as a compromise; p. xxvii under L&L: for Frags 1–3 read Frags 1–4; p. 60, l. 9: for anchor read sanction; p. 66, ll. 12–13: for fundamental read prudential; p. 66, l. 17: for practicality read practicability; p. 72, l. 6: for and a read and not a; p. 75, l. 7: for substraction read substratum; p. 80, l. 9 of text (not headnote): for factors read facts; p. 84, l. 5 of C's note: for dependency read dependancy; p. 96, l. 9: for no satisfactory read receive no satisfactory; p. 131, l. 27: for than A B read that A B; p. 207, l. 5: for terms read term; p. 207, l. 14: for contain it read or contain it; p. 352, l. 14 (Greek): for logsmôn read logismôn; p. 355, l. 26 (Greek): for thaumzein read thaumazein; p. 362, textual notes e-f and g-h should begin: ms: . . .)

Guest-edited journal:

• Editor and introducer, "Opera and Nineteenth-Century Literature," special issue of Romanticism on the Net 34–35 (May–August 2004 [i.e. January 2005])

Articles:

• "Coleridge's Most Unfortunate Borrowing from A. W. Schlegel," in Christoph Bode and Sebastian Domsch (eds.), British and European Romanticisms (Trier: WVT, 2007), 131–42
• "Greek Myths, Christian Mysteries, and the Tautegorical Symbol," The Wordsworth Circle 36 (2005): 6–8
• "Northrop Frye's Fearful Symmetry," Essays in Criticism 55 (2005): 159–72 [online access for UW users]
• "Lucy, Lucia, and Locke," Romanticism on the Net 34–35 (May–August 2004 [i.e. January 2005])
• "How Coleridge Was Wilder than Byron," Romanticism 10 (2004): 144–57
• Seven articles in the Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760–1850, ed. Christopher John Murray, 2 vols. (New York: Firzroy Dearborn, 2004):
  • "Art and Classical Antiquity"
  • "Boullée, Étienne-Louis" (French architect, 1728–99)
  • "Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich" (German philosopher and novelist, 1743–1819)
  • "Klenze, Leo von" (German architect and writer, 1784–1864)
  • "Robinson, Henry Crabb" (English diarist, 1775–1867)
  • "Schinkel, Karl Friedrich" (German architect, painter, and designer, 1781–1841)
  • "Symbol and Allegory"
• "The Metaphysical Foundation of Frye's Monadology," in Jeffrey Donaldson and Alan Mendelson (eds.), Frye and the Word: Religious Contexts in the Writings of Northrop Frye (University of Toronto Press, 2004), 97–104
• "Walter Benjamin's Unacknowledged Romanticism," Lingua Humanitatis 2 (2002): 163–82
• "When Is a Symbol Not a Symbol? Coleridge on the Eucharist," The Coleridge Bulletin 20 (2002): 85–92
• "Mind as Microcosm," European Romantic Review 12 (2001): 43–52
• "The Norton Critical Edition of Coleridge's Poetry and Prose," Romanticism on the Net 19 (August 2000)
• "Why Coleridge Was Not a Freudian," Dreaming: Journal of the Association for the Study of Dreams 7 (1997): 13–28 (special issue on Coleridge)
• "How Christian Is the Coleridgean Symbol?" The Wordsworth Circle 26 (1995): 26–30
• "An Anthropological Approach to the Romantic Symbol," European Romantic Review 4 (1993): 13–33
• "From Hierarchy to Opposition: Allegory and the Sublime," Comparative Literature 44 (1992): 337–60

Professional activities:

• Review editor, Romanticism on the Net
• Editorial board, MLQ
• Advisory board, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, 2005–8
• Committee on Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association, 2005–9 (co-chair, 2007–9)

Graduate supervision:

I have served on PhD examination committees in English, Comparative Literature, German, and Music, and am currently serving on PhD supervisory committees in English and Comparative Literature. I am happy to hear from graduate students and prospective graduate students whose interests lie (more or less) in any of the areas I teach or research.

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