Miranda Burgess

Miranda Burgess is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, affiliated with the Faculty of Arts and Department of English Language and Literatures. Her scholarship bridges Romantic-period literary studies, media theory, and mobility studies, interrogating intersections between feeling, technology, and colonial frameworks.

• Education: BA from University of Victoria, MA and PhD from Boston University

Research focuses on Romantic-era literature (1780-1840) through lenses of media/mediation, global mobility, and imperial ecologies. Key projects explore transport metaphors in Wordsworth and Mary Shelley, media materiality in 19th-century print culture, and Romantic poetry's role in settler-colonial placemaking in the Pacific Northwest.

Recent publications examine mobility's affective dimensions in Gothic narratives, digital humanities methodologies for Romantic studies, and environmental humanities applications to literary analysis. Her Romantic Transport, 1790-1830 book manuscript analyzes movement's figuration in global colonial contexts.

Honors include the UBC Killam Research Prize (2001) and Teaching Prize (2022). With Thora Brylowe, she received the NASSR Pedagogy Award (2017) for transatlantic media history course design. Teaching emphasizes workshop-based media history and graduate sensation theory seminars.