Michael Carhart

Aaron Santesso joined the Department of English as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2002. He earned his Ph.D. at Queen's University in Canada, where he specialized in English and Irish literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, particularly poetry. His dissertation was on nostalgia in eighteenth-century poetry, and that research has recently become his book, A Careful Longing: The Poetics and Problems of Nostalgia (2006). As the Fitzgerald Distinguished Professor of the Humanities for 2007-2009, he has been undertaking research on surveillance and privacy issues in literature and life. He is also working on a study of the influence of poetic education in seventeenth and eighteenth-century public schools. An expert on the theory and practice of zoos and zookeeping, he regularly makes pilgrimages to zoos around the world. Before coming to Nevada, he taught at Wesleyan University and Yale University.

Aaron Santesso
Aaron Santesso joined the Department of English as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2002. He earned his Ph.D. at Queen's University in Canada, where he specialized in English and Irish literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, particularly poetry. His dissertation was on nostalgia in eighteenth-century poetry, and that research has recently become his book, A Careful Longing: The Poetics and Problems of Nostalgia (2006). As the Fitzgerald Distinguished Professor of the Humanities for 2007-2009, he has been undertaking research on surveillance and privacy issues in literature and life. He is also working on a study of the influence of poetic education in seventeenth and eighteenth-century public schools. An expert on the theory and practice of zoos and zookeeping, he regularly makes pilgrimages to zoos around the world. Before coming to Nevada, he taught at Wesleyan University and Yale University.
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