Alex J. Dick

Alex J. Dick is in the English Department at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He is the co-editor (with Angela Esterhammer) of Spheres of Action: Speech and Performance in Romantic Culture (Toronto, 2009) and (with Christina Lupton) of Theory and Practice in the Eighteenth Century: Writing Between Philosophy and Literature (Pickering and Chatto, 2008). He has also authored a dozen articles and chapters on various literary, economic, and philosophical topics. He is currently working on two monographs: one on Scottish Romanticism and the Highland Clearances and one on the “coastal poetics” of the eighteenth-century Hebrides. He teaches courses on Romanticism, Critical Theory, and Detective Fiction as well as seminars on contemporary Scottish writing and environmental theory.