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Joel Faflak is a Professor at the University of Western Ontario's Department of English and Writing Studies. His academic work focuses on British literature and thought from 1750-1850, particularly Romanticism's intersections with psychoanalysis, psychiatry, and social welfare. He explores how Romantic-era psychology informs modern understandings of happiness, public intellectualism, and cultural spectacle.
His research connects Enlightenment ideals of happiness to Victorian-era social transformations, examining tensions between therapeutic normalization and liberation from societal pressures. He also analyzes American film musicals as ideological constructs rooted in post-Enlightenment psychiatric frameworks of happiness.
Current projects include SSHRC-funded work on Romanticism and the Psychopathology of Happiness, 1750-1850, and a co-edited volume Romanticism and Consciousness, Revisited with Richard C. Sha, addressing Romantic-era theories of mind in light of contemporary cognitive research.
