Professor

Department of British, American, and European Languages and Literatures, and Linguistics
(American and British Literature)

E-mail: dvallins[at]hiroshima-u.ac.jp

British Romantic School Literature, Modernism Literature and American Renaissance Literature

My main area of specializationis Romanticism, though I also have research-interests in 19thcentury American literature and in Modernist writing. I currently teach undergraduate courses in English Conversation, and in Post-colonial and Modernist writing.

• Contemplation and Criticism: Coleridge, Derrida and the Sublime, Comparative Critical Studies, 13(1), pp.27-45, 2016.
• Immanence and Transcendence in Coleridge’s Orient, David Vallins, Kaz Oishi, and Seamus Perry (eds.), Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient: Cultural Negotiations, London: Bloomsbury, 2013.
• Review Essay: Coleridge, Symbol, Scepticism, Romanticism, 15(3), pp.276-281, 2009.