Lisa Ann Robertson

Lisa Ann Robertson is an Associate Professor in eighteenth-century and Romantic-era British literature as well as the intersection of literature, science, and culture.

British Romanticism; rise of the novel, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women authors; bibliography, research, and methods for MA& PhD students.

Literature, science, cognition, aesthetics, & ethics-British Romanticism; Religious Dissent & Science-British Romantics;
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century women writers

Citations listed below are presented in a standardized, modified format for display purposes only. They do not necessarily reflect the preferred style and conventions of the faculty member or discipline.

Robertson, Lisa Ann. Review of Graham Davidson, The Intelligible Ode: Intimations of Paradise (Lutterworth P), 2023). Review 19, 2024.
Robertson, Lisa Ann. "Time + Space": Coleridge's Phenomenological Organicism. In The Coleridge Bulletin, editors Jeffrey Barbeau, 3-19. Vol. New Series 62, Iss. Summer Bridgewater, Somerset: The Friends of Coleridge, 2024.
. Review of Richard C. Sha and Joel Faflak, Romanticism and Consciousness, Revisited (Edinburgh UP, 2022)., Editors Jacob Risinger, Charles W. Mahoney, 516-523. Vol. 54, Iss. 4 Chicago, IL: The Wordsworth Circle, 2023. (DOI: 10.1086/727215)
. “Kindred forms": Erasmus Darwin’s Posthuman Ethics of Relationality, 551-566. Vol. 32, Iss. 5/6 Abingdon, Oxfordshire: European Romantic Review, 2021.
Robertson, Lisa Ann. Thomas Beddoes' Democratic Toys., Editors Tim Fulford and Dahlia Porter. Liverpool: Essays in Romanticism, 2019.
Robertson, Lisa Ann. Enacting the Absolute: Subject-Object Relations in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Theory of Knowledge. In A History of Distributed Cognition Vol. 3: From the Enlightenment to Romanticism, editors George Rousseau, Mike Wheeler, and Miranda Anderson. Vol. 3 Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2019.
Robertson, Lisa Ann. Review of Andrew Bennett, ed., William Wordsworth in Context, Cambridge UP, 2015 & Richard Gravil and Daniel Robinson, ed., The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth, Oxford UP, 2015., Editors William Brewer, 96-102. Vol. 29, Iss. 1 European Romantic Review, 2018.
Robertson, Lisa Ann. Review of Elizabeth A. Bohls. Slavery and the Politics of Place: Representing the Colonial Caribbean, 1770-1883. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2014.., Editors Richard Berkeley, 111-117. Vol. 1, Iss. 2 Paris: Journal of Romanticism, 2018.
Robertson, Lisa Ann. Review of Jan Golinski, The Experimental Self: Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science, Chicago UP, 2016., Editors Paul Westover, 909-911. Vol. 56, Iss. 4 Cambridge: Journal of British Studies, 2017.
Robertson, Lisa Ann. “Hints & Speculation on Education”: Tom Wedgwood’s Materialist Pedagogy. In Romantic Education: Romantic Pedagogies and New Approaches to Teaching Romanticism, editors Suzanne L. Barnett and Katherine Bennett Gustafson. Iss. May 2016 Romantic Circles Pedagogy Commons, 2016.
Robertson, Lisa Ann. Composite review of Sandy, Mark. Romanticism, Memory, and Mourning. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Vol. 42, Iss. 2 Nineteenth Century Prose , 2015.
Robertson, Lisa Ann. “Swallowed Up In Impression”: Humphry Davy’s Materialist Theory of Embodied Transcendence and William Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”, 591-614. Vol. 26, Iss. 5 European Romantic Review, 2015. (DOI: 10.1080/10509585.2015.1070343)
Robertson, Lisa Ann. Review of Day, Aidan. Romanticism. 2nd ed., 809-810. Vol. 19, Iss. 6 European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, 2014.
Robertson, Lisa Ann. Soulful Sensorium: The Body in British Romantic Brain Science., Editors Tiziana Morosetti and Norbert Lennartz, 17-28. Vol. 3, Iss. 1 La Questione Romantica: Rivista Interdisciplinare di Studi Romantici, 2011.
Robertson, Lisa Ann. Review of Webster, Suzanne E. Body and Soul in Coleridge’s Notebooks, 1827-1834: “What is Life?”, 999-1000. Vol. 16, Iss. 7 European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, 2011.
Robertson, Lisa Ann. ‘Universal Thump’: The Redemptive Epistemology of Touch in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, 5-20. Vol. 12, Iss. 2
Robertson, Lisa Ann. The Vicissitudes of Video Games, 8-13. Vol. 8, Iss. 3 Edmonton, AB: Fifty3: Journal of Contemporary Visual Culture, 2007.
Robertson, Lisa Ann. "Sensible" Slavery: Pleasure, Pain, and the Body in Matthew Lewis’ Journal of a West India Slave Proprietor, 220-37. Vol. 29, Iss. 2 Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism , 2007.
Robertson, Lisa Ann. Embodied Organicism: Cognition, Aesthetics, and Ethics in British Romantic Literature and Science. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.

Robertson, Lisa Ann, Piper, Katie, and Sazama, Taya, Pedagogy as Scientific Practice: Children’s Literature. Presented at the 33rd Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference: Transformationw, Sioux Falls, SD. (May 2025)
Robertson, Lisa Ann, Savarese, John, Manly, Susan, Cole, Sara, and , Barbauld, Empiricism, and Experiment. Presented at the Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent, York, UK. (January 2025)
Robertson, Lisa Ann, , , and , Scientific Siblings: Anna Laetitia Barbauld and John Aikin, Jr.. Presented at the 2024 NASSR / ICR Joint Annual Conference: Romantic Insurrections / Counter-Insurrections, Washington, DC. (August 16, 2024)
Robertson, Lisa Ann, , , and , Response to Elizabeth Oldfather's "The Space Flowers Can Open Endlessly Into": Mind-Wandering and Poetic Consciousness and John Savarese's Radical Antiquarianism and Gothic Materialism. Presented at the NASSR Science, Medicine, and Psychology Caucus Seminar, Washington, DC. (August 15, 2024)
Robertson, Lisa Ann, Derbyshire, Nancy, Oldfather, Elizabeth, Weiler, Christina, and Savarese, John, Romantic Minds and Environments. Presented at the NASSR/BARS Joint Conference 2022: New Romanticisms, Ormskirk, Lancashire, England. (August 2022)
Robertson, Lisa Ann, Embodied Consciousness. Presented at the Coleridge Summer Conference 2022, Kilve, Bridgwater, England. (July 2022)
Robertson, Lisa Ann, English, Colleen, Harris, Renee, and Mulligan, John, She Thinks for Herself: Exploring Women’s Participation in the Mind-Matter Debates. Presented at the NASSR Roundtable: Women in Science, Online. (June 28, 2021)
Robertson, Lisa Ann, Savarese, John, Harris, Renee, and Watkins, Adam E., “Internal Feelings of the Mind”: Entanglements of Affect and Cognition in Hartley’s Observations on Man. Presented at the NASSR 27th Annual Conference: Romantic Elements, Chicago, IL. (August 08, 2019)
Robertson, Lisa Ann, Porter, Dahlia, Trop, Gabriel, Sha, Richard C., and Faflak, Joel, ‘Born in Elemental Strife’: Vitality and Cognition in Erasmus Darwin’s Theory of Embodied Organicism. Presented at the NASSR Pre-Conference Seminar The Elemental: Romantic Science, Literature, Psychoanalysis, Chicago, IL. (August 07, 2019)
Robertson, Lisa Ann, Sha, Richard, Savarese, John, Kramnick, Jon, and Walker, Leila , Embodied Cognition and the Romantic Structures of Experience. Presented at the MLA 2019, Chicago, IL. (January 05, 2019)
Robertson, Lisa Ann, At the Border of Knowledge, or, Babies in the Scientific Imagination. Presented at the ICR: 2017 Romantic (In) Securty, El Paso, TX. (October 2017)
Robertson, Lisa Ann, The Life of the Body is the Life of the Mind: Erasmus Darwin’s Materialist Theory of Cognition. Presented at the NASSR 2017 Conference : Romantic Life, Ottawa, ON. (August 2017)
Robertson, Lisa Ann, “‘From the Imbecility of Children’: Infants in the Scientific Imagination”. Presented at the Bicentennial Conference “Robert Southey and Romantic-era Literature, Culture, and Science: 1797, 1817, 2017”, Bristol, England. (April 12, 2017)
Robertson, Lisa Ann, Satanic Seduction: Zofloya and the Infernal Marriage Plot. Presented at the ICR 2016: The Dark Side of Romanticism, Colorado Springs, Colorado. (October 20, 2016)
Robertson, Lisa Ann, Wordsworth’s Discontented Senses: Disappointment and the Embodied Imagination. Presented at the NASSR 2016 Conference : Romanticism and its Discontents, Berkely, CA. (August 11, 2016)
Robertson, Lisa Ann, Enacting the Absolute: Subject-Object Relations in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Theory of Mind. Presented at the A History of Distributed Cognition, Workshop 3—From the Enlightenment to Romanticism, Edinburgh, Scotland. (June 2015)
Robertson, Lisa Ann, The Enactive Imagination: William Wordsworth's Embodied Mind,. Presented at the Romantic Organizations: NASSR 22nd Annual Conference, Washington, DC. (July 12, 2014)
Robertson, Lisa Ann, The Power of Modifying: Organic Theories of Mind in British Romanticism. Presented at the Romantic Research Group, Romanticism & Evolution Conference, London ON. (May 13, 2011)
Robertson, Lisa Ann, Soulful Sensorium: The Body in Early British Romantic Brain Science. Presented at the Midwest Conference on British Studies, 56th Annual Conference, Cleveland OH. (October 08, 2010)
Robertson, Lisa Ann, “‘Sensible’ Slavery: Pleasure, Pain and the Body in Matthew Lewis’ Journal of a West India Slave Proprietor. Presented at the Folklore Student Association Conference, Columbus, OH. (May 20, 2006)

Specialty

Contact Us