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Dr. Michael Raiger
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Michael Raiger received his Ph.D. in English and American Literature from New York University in 2002. He joins us from Boston College, and his teaching will include the literary tradition sequence and Romanticism.
Selected Publications
“‘I shot the Albatross’: A Causal Explanation of the Mariner’s Act.” The Coleridge Bulletin 27 (2006): 1-11.
“The Intellectual Breeze, the Corporeality of Thought, and the Eolian Harp: Coleridge’s Early Natural Philosophy.” The Coleridge Bulletin 20 (2002): 76-84.
“Coleridge, Freud, and the Interpretation of Dreams.” Philosophy Today 45 (2001): 286-309.
“Coleridge’s Metaphysics and the Method of Deconstruction from Bacon to Heidegger.” The Coleridge Bulletin 14 (1999): 16-25.
“‘Poised, but on the Quiver’: The Paradox of Free Will and Grace in Hopkins’s ‘Spring’ and ‘(Carrion Comfort)’.” Religion and the Arts 3 (1999): 64-95.
“Sidney’s Defense of Plato.” Religion and Literature 30 (1998): 21-57.
“The Poetics of Liberation in Imaginative Power: Coleridge’s ‘This Lime Tree Bower My Prison’.” European Romantic Review 3 (1992): 65-78.
“The ‘Epitaph’ of S.T.C. and the Path to God: Coleridge’s Later Poems.” The Wordsworth Circle 21 (1990): 101-105.
“Plotinus on Matter.” Lyceum 2 (1990): 37-51
Conference Presentations
"From Givenness to Gift: Husserl's Principle of Intentionality, Stein's Concept of Empathy, and John Paul II's Ethos of the Gift." Presented at The Phenomenology of John Paul II Conference, December 1-2, 2006, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
"‘I shot the Albatross': A Causal Explanation of the Mariner's Act." Presented at the Tenth Coleridge Summer Conference. July 20-26, 2006, Bridgwater College, Cannington, England.
"The Location of Coleridge's ‘France: An Ode'." Presented at the Eleventh Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. August 1-5, 2003, Fordham University, New York, New York.
"‘The translucence of the Eternal through and in the Temporal': Coleridge's Theory of Symbol and the Distinction between Reason and Understanding." Presented at the conference "Illumination: Reason, Revelation and Science." July 23-26, 2002, St. Stephen's House, Oxford, England.
"The Intellectual Breeze, the Corporeality of Thought, and the Eolian Harp: Coleridge's Early Natural Philosophy." Presented at the Eighth Coleridge Summer Conference. July 18-24, 2002, Somerset College of Agriculture and Horticulture, Cannington, England.
"‘I am a compleat Necessitarian': Corporeality and the Motion of Thought in Coleridge's Theory of Association." Presented at the Seventh Coleridge Summer Conference. July 20-26, 2000, Somerset College of Agriculture and Horticulture, Cannington, England.
"The Appearance of the ‘Uncanny' in Coleridge's Distinction between Dream and ‘Night-mair'." Presented at the Twentieth Annual Conference of The Nineteenth Century Studies Association. March 23-25, 2000, Marymount University, Arlington, Virginia.
"Coleridge's Metaphysics and the Method of Deconstruction from Bacon through Kant to Heidegger." Presented at the Sixth Coleridge Summer Conference. July 23-29, 1998, Somerset College of Agriculture and Horticulture, Cannington, England.
"Coleridge, Freud, and the Interpretation of Dreams." Presented at the First Joint Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism and the British Association for Romantic Studies. July 6-10, 1998, St. Mary's University College, Strawberry Hill, England.
"The Psalms and Ignatian Spirituality: Hopkins's ‘Spring' and ‘(Carrion Comfort)'." Presented at the Fifth Annual St. Charles Borromeo Conference on Catholicism and Literature. April 22-24, 1998, The University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas.
"Coleridge, Kierkegaard, and the Dialogic Imagination in the Discourse of Faith." Presented at the Fourth Coleridge Summer Conference. July 22-27, 1994, Somerset College of Agriculture and Horticulture, Cannington, England.
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