David Sigler
Research/Focus Areas
  • British Romanticism
  • 19th Century British Literature
  • Psychoanalytic Theory (especially Freud and Lacan)
  • Deconstruction
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Women Writers
  • The Literary History of Perversion
  • Popular Music
My Courses
  • Survey of British Literature II (ENGL 342)
  • Romanticism (ENGL 465)
  • The Victorian Period (ENGL 466)
  • Nineteenth-Century Gothic (ENGL 550)
  • Literary Theory (ENGL 310)
  • Introduction to Literary Theory (ENGL 210)

David Sigler

College of Letters, Arts & Social Sciences
Department of English
Assistant Professor and Director of the M.A. Program

Campus Locations
  • Moscow
Office: Brink 222
Phone: (208) 885-7657
Email: David Sigler
Mailing Address:
English Department - University of Idaho
P.O. Box 441102
Moscow, Idaho 83844-1102

David Sigler's CV
  • Ph.D., University of Virginia, English, 2008
  • M.A., Queen’s University, English, 2001
  • B.A. (Hons.), Queen’s University, English & History, 2000

David Sigler teaches British literature and literary theory at the University of Idaho.  He is currently writing a book about sexual enjoyment in British Romantic literature, and beginning another project about the politics of the future in nineteenth-century British literature.  He has published articles on British Romanticism, psychoanalytic theory, and popular music.



Recent Publications*

  • “Dead Faith and Contraband Goods: Joanna Southcott and the Logic of Sexuation.” Studies in Romanticism (forthcoming).
  • "Accepting Derrida's Solution." SubStance (forthcoming).
  • “To be or not to be?: Why Hamlet takes center stage in Lacanian mechanics of perversion.” Shakespeare Yearbook (forthcoming).
  • Entries on Helen Maria Williams and Mary Meeke. Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature (Blackwell, forthcoming).
  • "The Labors of Joanna Southcott." The Work of Romanticism (conference proceedings, forthcoming). 
  • Rev. of Dale Townshend, The Orders of Gothic. Romantic Circles Reviews (forthcoming).
  • Rev. of Christopher C. Nagle, Sexuality and the Culture of Sensibility in British Romanticism. British Association of Romantic Studies Bulletin and Review 34 (January 2009). 32-33.
  • “The Rhetoric of Anti-Pedagogical Sadism in Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VII.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 9:2 (Spring 2008). 71-86.
  • “Two Masquerades and their Spec(tac)ular Effects in Mary Robinson’s Walsingham.” Romanticism on the Net 46 (May 2007).
  • “Make It A Double: Two Renditions of ‘Gin and Juice’ Reconsidered.” LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 18:2 (Spring 2007). 95-113.
  • "Sigmund Freud, analyze this’: How Madonna Situates ‘Die Another Day’ Beyond the Pleasure Principle.” Studies in Popular Culture 29:1 (Fall 2006). 77-97.
  • “‘Funky Days are Back Again’: Reading Seventies Nostalgia in Late-Nineties Rock Music.” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 5 (Fall 2004). 40-58.

 

Current Projects*

    
Book manuscript in progress:

  • monograph on gender and sexual enjoyment in British Romanticism

 
Articles in progress:

  • “‘Read Mr. Sacher-Masoch’: The Literariness of Perversion in Lacan and Deleuze”
  • “Reporting From the Future: Helen Maria Williams and the Nineteenth-Century Revolution” (seed essay for book-length manuscript)


 
Honors & Awards*

  • Seed Grant, University Research Office, University of Idaho, FY 2009-10
  • Thomas J. Griffis Essay Prize, Department of English, University of Virginia, 2008
  • Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Virginia, 2006
  • The Seven Society Graduate Fellowship for Superb Teaching, University of Virginia, 2006

  • *See CV for full listings of publications, research, outreach and awards.