Dr Carson Bergstrom

Senior Lecturer

• Crescent House 120
• T: 0161 295 4418
• E: c.bergstrom@salford.ac.uk
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Monday 12:00am-1:00pm

Tuesday 12:00am-11:00pm

Dr. Carson Bergstrom has been a full-time member of the English Subject Group at University of Salford since 2002. He gained a BA and then an MA from the University of British Columbia, Canada, and received his PhD from Edinburgh University in 1996.

Undergraduate:

Reptiles of Genius: Satire and Satirists in the Eighteenth Century

Shakespeare and the Play of Thought

The Romantic Period

Utopias and Dystopias

Narrative, Fiction, and the Novel

Language Through Literature

Wordscope: Academic Writing Skills

 MA

The Enlightenment: Reason, Imagination, Identity

Burgess and His Contemporaries

History of Science 17th and 18th centuries

Eighteenth-Century Writings/Enlightenment

Shakespeare

Cognitive Linguistics

BA MA PhD

Chair of the Board of Trustees of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation

Associate Fellow (Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies and Print Culture, Belgium)

The Rise of New-Science Epistemological, Linguistic, and Ethical Ideals and the Lyric Genre in the Eighteenth Century. 2003.

“Edward Young and the Abyss: Is Night Thoughts a Poem Written for a Destitute Time?” 2011.

“James Thomson's 'A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton' and the Revisions to The Seasons: New Science and Poetics in the Eighteenth Century.” 2011.

“William Collins and Personification (Once Again)” 2007.

“‘Critical and Curious Learning': New Science, Neoclassicism, and New Criticism in the Long Restoration.” 2007.

“William Collins and the Politics of the Persian Eclogues: Re-thinking the Category of Pre-Romanticism.” 2003.

“The Soul and Body of Poetry: Description and Collins’ Odes.” 2002.

“Purney, Pastoral, and the Polymorphous Perverse: Sexual Idealism and Early Eighteenth-Century Pastoral.” 1994.

“Alexander Pope’ Eloisa to Abelard: The Dynamics of Sublimation.” 1983.