Christopher Fanning

Christopher Fanning is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Queen's University, part of the Faculty of Arts and Science. He has taught at Queen's since 1999, emphasizing close reading and the material aspects of texts in his courses across undergraduate and graduate levels.

His research focuses on Restoration and eighteenth-century literature, with particular interests in satire, the sublime, the novel, and print culture. Key authors include Swift, Pope, Richardson, Sterne, and Austen. He is also the publisher of the Picton Gazette, Canada's oldest weekly newspaper (founded 1830), and currently researches its modernization, global contextualization, and archival analysis connecting past and present.

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