Sophie Thomas
Professor
Faculty of Arts
Department of English
Toronto, Ontario
sophie.thomas@torontomu.ca
Office:
(416) 979-5000 ext. 2677
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Bio/Research
Dr. Thomas joined the English Department at TMU in 2009, after previous posts at the University of Sussex in the UK and the University of Toronto. Her research explores the crosscurrents between visual culture, material culture, and literary texts. She has published numerous articles and book cha...
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Bio/Research
Dr. Thomas joined the English Department at TMU in 2009, after previous posts at the University of Sussex in the UK and the University of Toronto. Her research explores the crosscurrents between visual culture, material culture, and literary texts. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on a variety of topics related to Romanticism, museums, and visual culture, most recently co-editing the Edinburgh Companion to Romanticism and the Arts and a special issue of Museum and Society, “On the Properties of Things: Collective Knowledge and the Objects of the Museum.” She is currently completing a book on objects, collections and museums in the Romantic period (The Romantic Museum, 1770 – 1830: Matter, Memory, and the Poetics of Things) and working on a new SSHRC-funded project on Romanticism, museums, and the poetics of sculpture. Her previous book, Romanticism and Visuality: Fragments, History, Spectacle, focused on a variety of "sites" of seeing, and on the impact of new visual media on the literary and historical imagination.
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