Dr Lisa Ann Robertson

Lisa Ann Robertson is an instructor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, where she teaches courses in Romanticism and women writers, introductory literature, and writing. Her research focuses on the intersection of science and literary cultures in Romantic-era Britain with an emphasis on the science of the mind. Her recently completed manuscript, The Embodied Imagination: British Romanticism’s Materialist Mind, examines the reciprocity of influence between scientific and poetic theories of the mind and imagination. Portions of this research have appeared in La Questione Romantica and is forthcoming in European Romantic Review. She also has an article forthcoming in Romantic Circles Pedagogy Commons that explores the connection between Tom Wedgwood’s materialist account of mind and his plan for an experimental school. This is part of an emerging project that looks at eighteenth- and nineteenth-century materialist theories of mind and pedagogy and investigates women’s participation in the mind-matter debates through their writing on education.