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Anne Frey

Anne Frey, Ph.D.

Professor

Program Affiliations

AddRan College of Liberal ArtsEnglish
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  • Literary Theory /
  • British Literature

Education

Ph. D., British Literature, Johns Hopkins University, 2002
MA, English, Johns Hopkins University, 1998
BA, English, Williams College, magna cum laude with highest honors in English, 1994

Courses Taught

Undergraduate Courses:

British Romanticism
Law and Literature 
Teaching English Language Arts
19th Century Literature:  Writing Nature
Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley
British Writers
Intro to Poetry

Graduate Courses:

Seminar in British Romanticism:  Gothic and Romanticism
Poetry and Prose of the Romantic Period:  Revolution!
Seminar in Comparative Approaches: The Age of Nationalism
Genres of Women's Writing

Areas of Focus

Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Transatlantic literature
Law and Literature
Gothic literature
Critical Theory

  • Articles & Essays
    • "Not the property but the people”: Natural rights, embodied persons, and the limits of abstraction in John Thelwall’s political essays and The Daughter of Adoption. European Romantic Review 37:3 (Sept. 2026), 437-453.
    • “Common Law and Cultural Difference in Scott’s Ivanhoe and Chronicles of the Canongate,” British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century, ed. Melissa Ganz, Cambridge University
      Press, 2025, 167-186.
    • "When to Crack the Door: Horace Walpole and the Gothic Architecture of Information,” Eighteenth Century Fiction 37:3 (July 2025), 485-511.
    • “Shelley’s Pauses: Systemic Change in Laon and Cythna,” Romantic Circles Praxis March 2016.
    • “The National Tale and the Pseudonymous Author: Rosalia St. Clair’s Mobile Identity,” European Romantic Review 25:2 (2014) 181-199.
    • “Romantic Nationalism and the British State” European Romantic Review 22:3 (2012) 271-6.
    • “A Nation Without Nationalism: The Reorganization of Feeling in Austen’s Persuasion,” Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 38:2 (Spring/Summer 2005), 214-234. [Published Fall 2006].
    • “Barbara Hofland’s Profession: Questioning the Calling,” The Wordsworth Circle 36:3 (Summer 2005) 110-112.
    • “De Quincey’s Imperial Systems,” Studies in Romanticism 44:1 (Spring 2005) 41-64.
  • Books
    • British State Romanticism: Authorship, Agency, and Bureaucratic Nationalism, Stanford University Press, 2010.

Last Updated: October 19, 2026