Natasha Duquette
- Associate Professor of English
- Ph.D., Queen's University
- M.A., University of Toronto
Natasha Duquette received her MA from University of Toronto and PhD from Queen's University. She has published articles in Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, Notes and Queries, Christianity and Literature, and Persuasions-Online. She has also edited the essay collection Sublimer Aspects: Interfaces between Literature, Aesthetics, and Theology (Cambridge Scholars, 2007) and recently contributed to Jane Austen Sings the Blues (U of Alberta P, 2009). She is currently editing a new edition of Helen Maria Williams's eighteenth-century novel Julia for Pickering & Chatto's Chawton House Library series. She and her husband Fred enjoy travelling together, to countries such as Zambia and Ireland, as well as staying at home with their two little dogs Esmee the pug and Zamy the papillon.
Publications
- “Horrific Suffering, Sacred Terror, and Sublime Freedom in Helen Maria Williams’s Peru.” Suffering, The Sacred, and The Sublime: Trauma and Transcendence in Literature. Ed. Holly Faith Nelson, Lynn Szabo, and Jens Zimmermann. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier U P, 2010.
- “‘Motionless Wonder’: Contemplating the Gothic Sublime in Northanger Abbey.” Persuasions On-line 30. 2 (Spring 2010).
- “‘Sublime Repose’: The Spiritual Aesthetics of Landscape in Austen.” Jane Austen Sings the Blues. Ed. Nora Stovel. U of Alberta P, 2009.
- “Laughter over Tea: Jane Austen and Culinary Pedagogy.” Persuasions On-line 29. 1 (Winter 2008).
- “Anna Barbauld and Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck on the Sublimity of Scripture.” Sublimer Aspects: Interfaces between Literature, Aesthetics, and Theology. Ed. Natasha Duquette. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 62-79.
- “‘Dauntless Faith’: Contemplative Sublimity and Social Action in Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck’s Aesthetics.” Christianity and Literature 55. 4 (2006): 509-533.
- “Joanna Baillie’s ‘Thunder’ in 1790 and 1840." Notes and Queries 246. 2 (2001): 132-136.
- “‘A Thousand Angles’: Photographic Irony in the Work of Virginia Woolf and Julia Margaret Cameron.” Mosaic 33.2 (2000): 125-142.
- “The Heteroglossia of History: A Collaborative Woolf Project.” Virginia Woolf: Texts and Contexts. Ed. Beth Daughtery and Eileen Barrett. New York: Pace UP, 1996. 71-80.