Christopher C. Nagle

Christopher Nagle is a joint-appointed associate professor in English and Gender & Women’s Studies, teaching courses in 18th and 19th century British literature in a global context, especially Romanticism, Gothic literature, and Jane Austen, and courses on literary and critical theory, queer theory and the history of sexuality, and on diverse forms of literary adaptation. With scholarship spanning all these areas, he has published widely on Austen and other 18th and 19th century women writers in particular, and has presented research at conferences around the world. Nagle has served as a visiting scholar at both the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Notre Dame and co-organized interdisciplinary grant-funded research at WMU on strategies for resisting sexual violence on campus and in the community, as well as on the use of new technologies for enriching the teaching of literature. He was honored with a student-nominated M.V.P./Most Valuable Professor Award for his teaching in 2017.

Nagle’s publications include a scholarly monograph, Sexuality and the Culture of Sensibility in the British Romantic Era (Palgrave, 2007), and essays and reviews appearing in ELH, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, TSLL, Women’s Writing, and the Journal of Popular Culture, among other scholarly journals, and in numerous essay collections; the latter include recent contributions to the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Romanticism, the Routledge Companion to Jane Austen,  and Jane Austen and Critical Theory. His most recent work focuses on the global afterlives of Austen adaptations on screen and on the stage, the subject of his current book project. Nagle is also an allied faculty member with WMU’s Global and International Studies program, and has served in multiple leadership roles in the WMU-AAUP. Off-campus he has appeared occasionally on stage and more frequently in both local and international film projects with WMU alum Chuck Bentley.