Charles De Paolo

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Professor
English

EMAIL: cdepaolo@bmcc.cuny.edu

Office: N-751J

Office Hours:

Phone: +1 (212) 220-8275

Expertise

Degrees

New York University
Ph.D. 1982

Hunter College of the City University of New York
M.A.1976
B.A. 1973

Courses Taught

Research and Projects

Publications

 

1. Coleridge and the emancipation of the slaves. Theoria: A Journal of Studies in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. 1983); 60: 27-43.
2. —–. Coleridge and the cities of the Khan. The Wordsworth Circle.1983; 14.2: 83-87.
3. —–. Coleridge and the idea of a university. Romanticism Past and Present. 1984; 8: 17-34.
4. —–. Coleridge on child-labor reform. Charles Lamb Bulletin. 1984; 47-48: 187-194.
5. —–. Kant, Coleridge, and the ethics of war. The Wordsworth Circle. 1985; 16: 3-13.
6. —–. Coleridge and the history of western civilization. CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History. 1985; 14:181-203.
7. —–. Just antipodes: Charles Lamb and the ironic poor.” The Charles Lamb Bulletin. 1986; 53: 141-148.
8. —–. The lessons of wisdom and caution: Coleridge’s periodization of western civilization. The Wordsworth Circle. 1986; 17: 119-130.
9. —–. Coleridge’s philosophy of social reform. American University Studies. Series IV: English Language and Literature, 58. New York and Bern: Peter Lang, 1987. ISBN 0-8204-0531-0/PR4487.P6D4
10. —–. Coleridge’s theory of historical ideas. Nineteenth-Century Contexts. 1987; 11: 149-177.
11. —–. Teaching science rhetorically: an interdisciplinary approach to the natural sciences. Comm. Review. 1987. 8:16-24.
12. —–. Coleridge’s theory of retributive justice. The Wordsworth Circle. 1988; 19: 93-95.
13. —–. “Coleridge and Gibbon’s controversy over The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History. 1990; 20: 13-22.
14. —–. Coleridge on biography. The Wordsworth Circle. 1990: 105-109.
15. —–. Coleridge: historian of ideas. English Literary Studies, 54. Samuel L. Macey ed. Victoria, British Columbia: University of Victoria Dept, of English,1992. ISBN 0-920604-60-9
16. —–. Apocalypse. Encyclopedia of time. Volume 810 of The Garland library of social science. Samuel L. Macey (ed.). New York and London: Garland Press, 1994. Pp. 20-22. ISBN: 0-8153-0615-6
17. —–. Chronology. Encyclopedia of time. Pp.103-07.
18. —–. Eschatology. Encyclopedia of time. Pp. 185-87.
19. —–. Historiography and Process. Encyclopedia of time. Pp. 268-73
20. —–. Millenarianism. Encyclopedia of time. Pp. 391-93.
21. —–. Periodization. Encyclopedia of time. Pp. 446-47.
22. —–. Prophecy. Encyclopedia of time. Pp. 497-99.
23. —–. Revolution and history. Encyclopedia of time. Pp. 531-32.
24. —–. Hegel, Coleridge, and the philosophy of history. The Wordsworth Circle. 1995; 26: 31-35.
25. —–. Reviews of Coleridge’s visionary languages: essays in honour of J. B. Beer. Edited by Tim Fulford and Morton D. Paley. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993. ISBN: 0-85991-388-0; and of On humanity. Edited by Anya Taylor. Volume 2 of Coleridge’s writings. General Editor John Beer. New York and London: St. Martin’s Press, 1994. ISBN: 0-333-54851-5. The Wordsworth Circle. 1995; 26: 199-200.
26. —–. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Encyclopedia of the essay. Tracy Chevalier (ed.). London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997. Pp. 186-88.
27. —–. Hunt, Leigh. The Encyclopedia of the essay. Pp. 413-15.
28. —–. Hume, Coleridge, and the phenomenon of polytheism. The Wordsworth Circle. 1999; 30: 84-89.
29. —–. Herakleophorbia IV/somatrem: H. G. Wells’s speculations upon endocrinology. The Wellsian: The Journal of the H. G. Wells Society. 2000; 23: 35-47.
30. —–. Wells, Golding, and Auel: Representing the Neanderthal.” Science-Fiction Studies. (2000); 27.3: 418-38.
31. —–. Darwin, Charles Robert. The Encyclopedia of life-writing. Margaretta Jolly (ed.). 2 vols. Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, Publishers, 2001. I.: pp. 260-1. ISBN: 1-57958-232-X
32. —–. Huxley, Thomas Henry. The Encyclopedia of Life-Writing. Margarett Jolly (ed.). I.: pp. 451-52.
33. —–. “The Time Machine and the descent of man.” Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction. 2002; 85: 66-79.
34. —–. Human Prehistory in Fiction. Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland & Company, Publishers, 2003. ISBN 0-7864-1417-0
35. —–. H. G. Wells’ speculations on endocrinology.” The Wellsian: Essays on H. G. Wells, 1976-2003. J. S. Partington (ed.). The Netherlands: Equilibris, 2003. Pp. 131-143.
36. —–. “The Clan of the Cave Bear.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Themes in Science Fiction and Fantasy. G. Westfahl (ed.), et al. 3 vols. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2006. Vol. 3: pp. 964-66.
37. —–.Plagues and diseases. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Themes in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Vol..: pp. 601-604.
38. —–. “Prehistoric Fiction.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Themes in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Vol. 2: pp. 627-28.
39. ——. Epidemic Disease and Human Understanding: A Historical Analysis of Scientific and Other Writings. Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland and Company, Publishers, 2006. ISBN 0-7864-2506-7
40. —–. The Ethnography of Charles Darwin: A Study of His Writings on Aboriginal Peoples. Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland and Company, Publishers, 2010. ISBN 978-0-7864-4877-7
41. —–. “Wells, Golding, and Auel: representing the neanderthal.” Short Story Criticism. Vol. 151. Farmington Mills, Michigan: Greenhaven Press/Cengage Learning, 2012.
42. —–. Pasteur and Lister: a chronicle of scientific influence. The Victorian Web: Literature, History, & Culture in the Age of Victoria. G. P. Landow (ed. & webmaster). 2012; http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/depaolo.html
43. ——. Darwin and the Galápagos Islands: an annotated guide to the primary texts. The Victorian Web: Literature, History, & Culture in the Age of Victoria. G. P. Landow (ed. & webmaster). (23 August 2013). www.victorianweb.org/science/darwin/depaolo.html.
44. ——. Darwin and the Galapagos Islands: primary darwinian texts. G. P. Landow (ed. & webmaster) http://www.victorianweb.org/science/darwin/depaolo.html / 23 August 2013.
45. ——. Darwin and the Galapagos Islands: secondary texts. G. P. Landow (ed. & webmaster) http://www.victorianweb.org/science/darwin/depaolo.html / 23 August 2013.
46. ——. Correspondence related to Darwin and the Galapagos Islands: a comprehensive list. (Source: The Darwin Correspondence Project). G. P. Landow (ed. & webmaster). http://www.victorianweb.org/science/darwin/depaolo.html / 23 August 2013.
47. ——. George Robert Waterhouse (1808-1888): architect, entomologist, zoologist, mineralogist, and curator. The Victorian Web: Literature, History & Culture in the Age of Victoria. G. P. Landow ed. & webmaster). http://www.victorianweb.org/science/waterhouse.html
48. ——. Pandemic influenza in fiction: a critical study. Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland & Company, Publishers, 2014. ISBN-10: 0786495898; ISBN-13: 978-0786495894
49. ——. William Watson Cheyne and the advancement of bacteriology. Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland & Company, Publishers, 2016. ISBN (print)-978-1-4766-6651-8/(ebook)-978-1-4766-2641-3
50. ——-. Escharotic medicine, 1805-1889. The Victorian Web: Literature, History, & Culture in the Age of Victoria. G. P. Landow. (ed. & webmaster). (20 March 2017). http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/escharotic.html.
51. ——-. Victorian pharmacology I: the discovery & early use of zinc chloride in medicine. The Victorian Web: Literature, History, & Culture in the Age of Victoria. G. P. Landow (ed. & webmaster). (11 January 2017). http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/depaolo1.html1.
52. ——-. Victorian pharmacology II: zinc chloride enters the British dispensary. The Victorian Web: Literature, History, & Culture in the Age of Victoria. Ed. and Webmaster George P. Landow. (19 January 2017). http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/depaolo2.html.
53. ——-. Victorian Pharmacology III: William Burnett, zinc chloride, & the principle of disinfection. The Victorian Web: Literature, History, & Culture in the Age of Victoria. Ed. and Webmaster George P. Landow. (19 January 2017). http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/depaolo3.html.
54. ——-. Victorian pharmacology IV: zinc chloride & public health. The Victorian Web: Literature, History, & Culture in the Age of Victoria. Ed. and Webmaster George P. Landow. (29 January 2017). http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/depaolo4.html.
55. ——-. Victorian pharmacology V: Jesse Weldon Fell, M.D., zinc chloride & furtive medicine.” The Victorian Web: Literature, History, & Culture in the Age of Victoria. Ed. and Webmaster George P. Landow. (5 March 2017).
56. ——-. Victorian pharmacology VI: Dr. Fell’s investigation under scrutiny. The Victorian Web: Literature, History, & Culture in the Age of Victoria. Ed. and Webmaster George P. Landow. (5 March 2017). http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/depaolo6.html.
57. ——-. Victorian Pharmacology VII: the trial & reinventions of Dr. John Pattison.
The Victorian Web: Literature, History, & Culture in the Age of Victoria. Ed. and Webmaster George P. Landow. (29 March 2017). http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/depaolo7.html.
58. ——-. Victorian pharmacology VIII: Dr. John Pattison’s Caustic Temperament. The Victorian Web: Literature, History, & Culture in the Age of Victoria. Ed. and Webmaster George P. Landow. (2 April 2017). http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/depaolo8.html.
59. ——-. Victorian pharmacology IX: Campbell De Morgan, M.D. & the mixed mode of operation. The Victorian Web: Literature, History, & Culture in the Age of Victoria. Ed. and Webmaster George P. Landow. (30 April 2017). http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/depaolo9.html.
60. —–. Victorian pharmacology X: Charles H. Moore & the mixed mode of operation. The Victorian Web: Literature, History, & Culture in the Age of Victoria. Ed. and Webmaster George P. Landow. (9 May 2017). http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/science/health/depaolo10.html.
61. —–. Victorian pharmacology XI: Dr. H. T. Butlin & zinc chloride, 1887-1893. The Victorian Web: Literature, History, & Culture in the Age of Victoria. Ed. and Webmaster George P. Landow. (9 May 2017). http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/science/health/depaolo11.html.
62. —–. Joseph Lister, James Syme, and Victorian medical education. The Victorian Web: Literature, History, & Culture in the Age of Victoria. Ed. and Webmaster George P. Landow. http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/science/health/depaolo12.html.
63. ——. Frederic E. Mohs, M.D., and the history of zinc-chloride. Clinics in Dermatology (July, 2018); 36: 568-575. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clindermatol.2017.12.001.
64. ——-. “William Golding’s The Inheritors: The Great Divide.” Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, edited by Jonathan Vereecke, vol. 363, Gale, 2018. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1420125294/LitRC?u=anon~fd2e23ae&sid=googleScholar&xid=f0191fb7. Accessed 5 May 2023. Originally published in Human Prehistory in Fiction, McFarland, 2003, pp. 72-78.
65. ——-. Darwin’s demiurge: natural selection and rhetorical paradox.” George P. Landow, ed. and webmaster. The Victorian Web: Literature, History, & Culture in the Age of Victoria. www.victorianweb.com.
66. ——-. Sir Marc Armand Ruffer, M.D.: the early years, 1878-1896.” J Med Bio. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967772019883998.
67. ——-. Charles Hewitt Moore, FRCS (1821-1870): medical innovator. J Med Bio. 2020.
https://doi:1177/0967772020975021.
68. ——-. Saving Private W. H.: the surgical experiences of Dugald Blair Brown (1847-1896): Brigadier-Lieutenant-Colonel, FRCS, Edinburgh, Army Medical Dept. J Med Bio. 2021.
69. ——-. One Man’s Campaign Against Smallpox: James Thacher, M.D., Continental Army Physician, Journal of the American Revolution, October 2022.
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Honors, Awards and Affiliations

Books

  • Pandemic Influenza in Fiction: A Critical Study (2014)
  • The Ethnography of Charles Darwin: A Study of His Writings on Aboriginal Peoples (2010)
  • Epidemic Disease and Human Understanding: A Historical Analysis of Scientific and Other Writings (2006)
  • Human Prehistory in Fiction (2002)
  • Coleridge, Historian of ideas
  • Coleridge’s Philosophy of Social Reform

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