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Prof. Dr. Robert Mitchell

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21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C5.209
Fon +49.4131.677-2765 (Sekr.), robert.mitchell@leuphana.de
Professor, Professur für Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturtheorie

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Vita

Academic Positions
2018 - 2022: Chair, Department of English
2013 -          : Full Professor, Department of English, Duke University Affiliated Faculty, Women’s Studies, Duke University
2011 - 2023: Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Science and Cultural Theory, Duke University
2008 - 2013: Associate Professor, Department of English, Duke University Affiliated Faculty, Women’s Studies, Duke University
Faculty member, Institute of Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University
Faculty Associate, Center for Genomics and Society, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
2002 - 2008: Assistant Professor, Department of English, Duke University Affiliated Faculty, Women’s Studies, Duke University 
Faculty member, Institute of Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University
Faculty Associate, Center for Genomics and Society, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
2002: Acting Instructor, Department of English, University of Washington

Publications

Books and anthologies

  1. Infectious liberty: Biopolitics between romanticism and liberalism
    Robert Mitchell (Author) , 2021 , 324 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Book › Research

  2. Experimental life: Vitalism in Romantic science and literature
    Robert Mitchell (Author) , 2013 , 309 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Book › Research

  3. Sympathy and the state in the romantic era: Systems, state finance, and the shadows of futurity
    Robert Mitchell (Author) , 2007 , 266 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Book › Research

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Journal contributions

  1. The Planetary Experiment: A History and Theory of Science at Scale
    Robert Mitchell (Author) , Orit Halpern (Author) , Henning Schmidgen (Author) , 01.01.2026 , in: Critical Inquiry, 52, 2 , p. 242-265 , 24 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  2. Recovering Character’s Science
    Robert Mitchell (Author) , 01.05.2024 , in: Novel, 57, 1 , p. 138-144 , 7 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research

  3. Frankenstein and the sciences of self-regulation
    Robert Mitchell (Author) , 01.12.2020 , in: Huntington Library Quarterly, 53, 4 , p. 749-770 , 22 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research

  4. Enlightenment biopolitics: Population and the growth of genius
    Robert Mitchell (Author) , 01.12.2018 , in: Eighteenth Century, 59, 4 , p. 405-427 , 23 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research

  5. Regulating Life: Romanticism, Science, and the Liberal Imagination<sup>*</sup>
    Robert Mitchell (Author) , 04.05.2018 , in: European Romantic Review, 29, 3 , p. 275-293 , 19 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

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Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. May Flies and Horseshoe Crabs: Romantic and Post-Romantic Consciousness, Institutions, and Populations
    Robert Mitchell (Author) , 01.01.2022 , p. 285-308 , 24 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Chapter › Research › peer-review

  2. Immunisation and the Natural Sciences: Esposito on Disciplines, Deconstruction and Equilibrium
    Robert Mitchell (Author) , 01.01.2021 , p. 85-117 , 33 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Chapter › Research › peer-review

  3. Population aesthetics in romantic and post-romantic literature
    Robert Mitchell (Author) , 01.01.2016 , p. 267-289 , 23 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Chapter › Research › peer-review

  4. Global Flows: Romantic-Era Terraforming
    Robert Mitchell (Author) , 01.01.2014 , p. 199-218 , 20 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Chapter › Research › peer-review

  5. MELANCHOLY
    Robert Mitchell (Author) , 01.01.2013 , p. 722-723 , 2 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Articles for encyclopedia › Research

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