Michelle Faubert

• ENGL 2130 - Literature of the Romantic Period
• ENGL 3130 - Studies in the Romantics topics such as: The Romantic Family; Writing Romantic Women; Cultural Construction of Madness in the Romantic Period
• ENGL 4630/7960 - Special Topics such as: Romantic Medicine; Romantic Radicalism; Mary Wollstonecraft and Early Feminism

Michelle Faubert is a Professor of Romantic literature at the University of Manitoba, where she began teaching in 2006, and Visiting Fellow at Northumbria University, UK, since 2010. 

• PhD (English literature), University of Toronto, 2003
• MA (English literature and philosophy), University of Regina, 1997
• BA Honours (English), University of Regina, 1995

Research interests

• British Romanticism
• Literary representations of suicide
• History of psychology and medicine
• Slavery and abolition
• New historicism

Research affiliations/groups

• Chair, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR)
• Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE)
• Keats-Shelley Association

Monographs

• 2025: (forthcoming) _Romanticism and Subversive Suicide: Human Rights, Existential Freedom and Biopower” Edinburgh UP.
• 2018: _Granville Sharp’s Uncovered Letter and the Zong Massacre_. Palgrave.
• 2009: _Rhyming Reason: The Poetry of Romantic-Era Psychologists_. Pickering & Chatto Publishers.

Edited book volumes and journal issues

• 2020: “Suicidal Romanticism: Origins and Influences.” _Studies in the Literary Imagination_ 51.1 (2018 issue)
• 2016: “Romanticism and Rights.” _European Romantic Review_ 27.3 (2016); co-edited with Peter Melville (University of Winnipeg)
• 2015: “Romantic Suicide.” _Literature Compass_ 12.12 (2015); co-edited with Nicole Reynolds (Ohio University)
• 2012: _Depression and Melancholy, 1660-1800: Medical Writings_. Ed. Michelle Faubert and Allan Ingram. Pickering & Chatto. 4 vols. Vol. 2. 
• 2010: _Romanticism and Pleasure_. Ed. Thomas Schmid and Michelle Faubert. Palgrave.

Editions

• 2020: Transcription, editing, and introduction to Mary Shelley’s manuscript of _Mathilda_ for online _Shelley-Godwin Archive_ 
• 2017: Shelley, Mary. _Mathilda_ (1819; 1959). Ed. Michelle Faubert. Broadview Editions.
• 2012: Wollstonecraft, Mary. _Mary, A Fiction_ (1788) and _The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria_ (1798). Ed. Michelle Faubert. Broadview Editions.
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Selected refereed articles and chapters

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• 2015-20 (extended to 2024) - Principle Investigator for SSHRC Insight Grant, “Romanticism and Revolutionary Suicide” ($145,697)
• 2020 - Principle Investigator for Creative Works Grant, Office of Research Services, UM ($5,000); “The Zong Play: Living history, linking lives through theatre”
• 2019 - University of Manitoba Merit Award for Teaching and Research ($3,000)
• 2018-21 - Project Associate for Leverhulme Grant, “Writing Doctors: Representation and Medical Personality ca. 1660-1832” (Northumbria University, $500,000)
• 2014-16 - Principle Investigator for Gerda Henkel Stiftung Research Scholarship ($14,927)

• 2023, 2018, 2013 - Lecturer at the University Women's Club of Winnipeg 
• 2019 - Keynote lecturer for the 25th annual Ogden Glass Distinguished Lecturer Series; Bishop’s University; Sherbrooke, Quebec
• 2019 - Lecture on the _Zong_ massacre to high school students; Cape Coast Castle, Ghana
• 2017 - Keynote lecturer for the 27th Annual Lecture, Phi Beta Kappa Society; Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois, US
• 2017 - Lecture at the University of West Indies; Kingston, Jamaica