Stephen Ahern, Ph.D.

• Associate Professor, Department of English

• Coordinator, Writing Centre

• Associate Director, Centre for the Study
  of Ethnocultural Diversity (ACSED)

Acadia University 

Courses 2011-2012

"Restoration and Early 18-Century Literature" (Engl 2383)

Contact Information

Email: stephen.ahern@acadiau.ca

Office: BAC 417

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Teaching Areas

Professor Ahern teaches Restoration, eighteenth-century, and nineteenth-century British literature; introduction to literature; and composition for second language students.

Research Profile

Professor Ahern's research focuses on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature.  His book Affected Sensibilities: Romantic Excess and the Genealogy of the Novel 1680-1810 appeared recently with AMS Press.  He has also published articles on Behn's fiction and on Tennyson's verse, and contributed a chapter on the translation of early French novels to the Oxford History of Literary Translation in English.  An essay cluster he edited on the topic "Diagnosing Romanticism" featured in English Studies in Canada, and most recently appeared is "The Sex of Spleen and the Body of Sensibility in Early Romantic Lyric," a chapter in The English Malady: Enabling and Disabling Fictions.  His new book project is an essay collection titled The Bonds of Sentiment: Affect and Abolition in the AngloAtlantic, 1770-1830.

As Coordinator of the Acadia Writing Centre, Professor Ahern is also engaged in the scholarship of teaching and learning.  He recently completed a multidisciplinary project with colleagues in Psychology and History to study the academic achievement and well-being of international students whose first language is not English.