Fraser Easton

Fraser Easton is a Professor at the University of Waterloo, cross-appointed to the Department of History. He holds a PhD and MA from Princeton University and a BA from the University of British Columbia.

• PhD, Princeton
• MA, Princeton
• BA, British Columbia

His research spans eighteenth-century and Romantic literature, gender studies, political economy, and rhetorical theory. He investigates labor and gender dynamics, literary communication, and intersections between political economy and the novel. Current projects include a SSHRC-funded digital archive on cross-dressing (WXDA) and a study of elocution's role in communication history.

Recent publications include interdisciplinary analyses of Christopher Smart, Jane Austen, and Laurence Sterne, focusing on topics like cross-dressing narratives, speech theory, and economic critique. His work combines archival research with conceptual frameworks from Foucault and eighteenth-century rhetoric.

• SSHRC Insight Grant
• University of Waterloo Outstanding Performance Award
• Killam Post-Doctoral Fellowship
• SSHRC Standard Research Grant
• Princeton Graduate Fellowship

He has supervised graduate studies in eighteenth-century literature and gender theory, chaired Waterloo's English Department (2008-2015), and served on advisory boards for Comparative Literature and Women's Studies. His visiting appointments include the University of Konstanz (2004) and Zhejiang Gongshang University (2013).