Department of English

Emily Ogden

212 Bryan Hall

Office Hours: TR 12:30-2, please e-mail to set up an appointment during these times.

Class Schedule: TR 3:30-4:45, 5:00-6:15

Specialties:

19th C American, American

Please see www.emilyogden.net for updated information.

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2010
A.B., Harvard University, 2002

Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism (University of Chicago Press, 2018)
Reviews: by Leigh Eric Schmidt at Reading Religion; by Charlie McCrary at Bulletin Book Reviews (Bulletin for the Study of Religion)

Interviewed about Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism on Australia's ABC Radio National: Late Night Live with Philip Adams, April 10, 2018: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/mesmerism/9636656
New Books in the Society of Fellows: Celebrating Recent Work by David Russell and Emily Ogden, Tuesday, April 3, 2018, 6:15 pm, Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, New York, NY. Free and open to the public. http://heymancenter.org/events/celebrating-recent-work-by-david-russell-and-emily-ogden/
Panelist on The Forum (BBC World Service), "Herman Melville: Moby Dick," March 10, 2018, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csvsfv

"Beyond Radical Enchantment: Mesmerizing Laborers in the Americas." Critical Inquiry 42.4 (Summer 2016): 815-41
"Edgar Huntly and the Regulation of the Senses." American Literature 85.3 (September 2013): 419-445.
"Pointing the Finger." J19 1.1 (Spring 2013): 166-72.
"Mesmer's Demon: Fiction, Falsehood, and the Mechanical Imagination." Early American Literature 47.1 (2012): 143-70.

Panel organizer, “New Ontologies,” C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Biennial Meeting, March 17-21, 2016, State College, PA. Paper presented: “Suspended: Fiction's Believers”
Organizer, "Credulity: Enchantment and Modernity in the Nineteenth-Century U. S.," a conference at the Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, March 29-30, 2013 (http://heymancenter.org/events/credulity/)
"Enchanted Criticism: A Roundtable," Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, February 22, 2013
"Feathered Souls: Antebellum Mesmerism and the Skeptical Flight of Fancy," Religion in America Seminar, Columbia University Seminars, February 5, 2013
"With Spirits, All Things Are Possible: Fraud and the Otherworldly," C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Biennial Conference, Berkeley, CA, April 12-15, 2012
"Interiority by Subplot: Brown's Edgar Huntly and the Impossible Subject," Society of Early Americanists Biennial Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 3-5, 2011