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Prof. Dr. Thomas Manganaro

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University of Richmond
English Literature

Guest Researcher

August 2025 – July 2026

E-Mail: tmangana@richmond.edu

Last Update: 31.08.2026

Curriculum Vitae

Thomas Manganaro is Associate Professor of English at the University of Richmond (USA) with a Ph.D. in English from Duke University and a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago. In his research and teaching he specializes in the eighteenth century and Romantic periods with particular emphasis on literature’s relations to philosophy and intellectual history as well as the history and theory of the novel. His first book is entitled Against Better Judgment: Irrational Action and Literary Invention in the Long Eighteenth Century (University of Virginia Press, 2022) and was awarded the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies. As a guest researcher at FRIAS for the 2025-26 academic year he is working on a second book entitled Saying and Showing in the Early Novel. Portions of the project are forthcoming or have been published as articles in the journals English Literary History (ELH) and Eighteenth-Century Fiction.

Selected Publications

FRIAS Project