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Dr. Justin Tackett is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He specializes in transatlantic literatures from the eighteenth century to the present with a focus on technology, media, science, and culture.
His research interests include:
- Transatlantic literatures from the eighteenth century to the present
- Technology, media, science, and culture
- Poetry and poetics
- Sound studies
- Early film
- Digital humanities
- Gender and sexuality studies
- Race studies
- Medical humanities and disability studies
- Archive, book, and periodical studies
Dr. Tackett is currently working on a book project titled "The Sound Era: Poetry's Machinery in the Long Nineteenth Century" under contract with Princeton University Press. This project addresses the relationships between sound technology (stethoscopes, telegraphs, phonographs, telephones, microphones, wireless, etc.) and poetry of various nineteenth-century authors including Anna Laetitia Barbauld, the Brontës, the Brownings, John Clare, William Cowper, Sarah Josepha Hale, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, John Rollin Ridge, Alfred Tennyson, and Walt Whitman.
His publications demonstrate a strong interdisciplinary approach examining how sound technologies influenced poetic expression across the nineteenth century. His work spans literary analysis, media theory, and historical studies of technology, revealing how technological innovations shaped literary forms and expressions. The recurring theme throughout his scholarship is the examination of sensory experience as mediated through technological interfaces and how these interfaces transformed creative expression.
Dr. Tackett has received several prestigious awards for his scholarship:
- Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Emerging Scholars Award
- Media Ecology Association Walter Benjamin Award
- Thomas Hardy Society Patrick Tolfree Prize
Dr. Tackett teaches courses including the MA module EN9A1 Victorian Materialities, covering interdisciplinary and transnational studies; poetry and poetics; sound studies; early film; digital humanities; gender and sexuality; race studies; medical humanities and disability studies; and archive, book, and periodical studies. His educational background includes a PhD in English Literature from Stanford University, an MSt in English Literature from the University of Oxford, and a BA in English and Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania.
