Professor Aleksondra Hultquist
IAS Open Programme
Stockton University
Aleksondra Hultquist (Associate Professor at Stockton University, USA) has published on the literature and culture of the long eighteenth-century, especially women writers and the passions. She edited a special issue for Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation called ‘Emotion in the Eighteenth Century’ (2017) and co-edited a collection with Prof. Chris Mounsey on Eliza Haywood (Routledge 2021).
Recent articles include ‘Amorous Constitutions: Bodies and the Affect of Amatory Seduction in Eliza Haywood’s Lasselia’, Restoration (2020), and ‘Passionate Educations: John Locke, Aphra Behn, and Jane Austen’, English Literature (2018).
She is an Honorary Researcher for the Australian Research Council’s Center of Excellence for the History of Emotion and a founding editor of the online peer-reviewed journal, ABO (Aphra Behn Online): Intersectional Journal for Women in the Arts. Her current projects include her manuscript The Amatory Mode: Amatory Fiction’s Passionate Legacy and editing vol. VI (Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister) of the forthcoming collected works of Aphra Behn by Cambridge University Press.