Tim Cassedy

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