Dr Uttara Natarajan
Position held:
Senior Lecturer in English Literature
Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 7435
Email:
u.natarajan (@gold.ac.uk)
Room 412
4th Floor
Warmington Tower
Office hours:
On leave Autumn Term 2011
B.Sc. Mathematics, University of Madras, 1986; BA (Hons), Cambridge University, 1988; M.Phil, English Romantic Studies, Oxford University, 1991; D.Phil., Oxford University, 1995; Research Fellow, University of Liverpool, 1996-99; appointed Goldsmiths College, 1999.
Teaching
I currently convene ‘The Victorians’ course. I also teach on the ‘Sensibility and Romanticism’ and ‘Shakespeare’ courses.
Areas of supervision
The literature and politics of William Morris.
Professional activities
- Correspondent and member of the Founding Committee of the Hazlitt Society.
- Co-organizer (with Tom Paulin and Duncan Wu) of the annual Hazlitt conference at the English Faculty and St. Catherine’s College, Oxford.
- Editor, The Hazlitt Review.
- Oliver Smithies Lecturer and Visiting Research Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford, 2007-08.
Research interests
My research interests are primarily in the area of Romantic and
Victorian literature, especially non-fictional prose and the history
of ideas: I am currently studying the transmission of Romantic
models in Victorian aesthetics and criticism. I have a particular
expertise in the writings of the early nineteenth-century critic,
William Hazlitt.
Another (unrelated) area of study is south Indian culture and caste politics.
Selected publications
- (ed.), Blackwell Guides to Criticism: The Romantic Poets (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007)
- (ed.), A.N. Sattanathan, Plain Speaking: A Sudra’s Story (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2007).
- ‘Pater and the Genealogy of Hardy’s Modernity’, SEL 46.4, 849-61.
- (ed. with T. Paulin and D. Wu), Metaphysical Hazlitt (London: Routledge, 2005).
- ‘A Veil of Familiarity: Romantic Philosophy and the Familiar Essay’, SIR 42.1, 27-44.
- Hazlitt and the Reach of Sense (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998).