Mr Todd Dearing
Casual Academic
College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
I am particularly interested in the literary role of human imagination, creativity, and genius, and how the experience of reading literature may promote individual and cultural development.
I am particularly interested in the literary role of human imagination, creativity, and genius, and how the experience of reading literature may promote individual and cultural development.
Todd Dearing is a PhD Candidate and Tutor in English literature at Flinders University. He is a recipient of the Australian Government Research Training Program (AGRTP) and participant in the Flinders 2018 Academic Internship Program for Doctoral Students (AIPDS). He completed a BA(Hons) with First Class Honours in art history at Charles Sturt University (2016), following from a BA in art history at Griffith University (2015).
His doctorate research articulates a new, pluralistic, inquisitive methodology of literary humanism for the twenty-first century through a study of the trope of the daimon in William Blake's epic poem Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion.
BA (Hons) (Charles Sturt/Griffith)
Australian Goverment Research Training Program Scholarship (AGRTPS) 2017-
Project Funding Award for HDR Students 2018, Flinders University
Horizon Professional Development Gold Award 2018, Flinders University
Horizon Professional Development Silver Award 2017, Flinders University
Dean's Award 2016, Charles Sturt University
Honours Scholarship 2016, Charles Sturt University
- HDR Student Representative, CHASS Research Committee, Flinders University, 2019
- HDR Student Representative, Research Quality Committee, Flinders University, 2018-
- Postgraduate Representative and Webmaster, Australian and New Zealand Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ANZSECS), 2017-
Romanticism and the long eighteenth century, including
- William Blake
- British Romantic literature
- Genius and the daimon
- Romantic theories of imagination and creativity
- German literature, art, and philosophy
- Romantic art
New literary humanism and contemporary literary criticism
The comtemporary relevance of Romanticism and the Enlightenment
Creativity, genius, the daimon, and imagination in literature and art
Poetry
Philosophy and literature
Literature and cognition
Tutor, ENGL1101, Approaches to Literature, Semester 1, 2019.
Tutor, ENGL2140: Epochs of English, Semester 1, 2019.
Guest Lecturer, 'Interpreting Poetry,' ENGL1102: Literary Interpretations, 6 August 2018.
Tutor, ENGL2140: Epochs of English, Semester 1, 2018.
- HDR Student Representative, CHASS Research Committee, Flinders University, 2019
- HDR Student Representative, Research Quality Committee, Flinders University, 2018-
- Postgraduate Representative and Webmaster, Australian and New Zealand Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ANZSECS), 2017-
- Participant in the Flinders Academic Internship Program for Doctoral Students (AIPDS), 2018
- Postgraduate Representative, College of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, 2018
- Horizon Award Student Partners Program, 2018
- Committee Member, Flinders WHIP Postgraduate Association, 2018
- Member
- Romantic Studies Association of Australasia (RSAA), 2017-
- Modern Langauge Association (MLA), 2017-
- Australasian Association for Literature (AAL), 2018-
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Société d’Études du Romantisme Anglais (SERA), 2018-
- Public speaking events on literature as a human experience, 2018-
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