Gary Handwerk

Gary Handwerk works on modern European narrative and narrative theory, with particular interest in narrative ethics and the relation between political philosophy and fiction. His recent publications have focused on Romantic-era texts and include critical editions of William Godwin’s Caleb Williams and Fleetwood (Broadview Press), as well as essays on several of Godwin novels and on Rousseau’s Emile. He is the translator and editor of Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human (Stanford University Press: Volume 1, 1996; Volume II, 2012), and author of an article on Romantic irony in the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. His recent work has also included the field of literature and the environment, as a research area, a teaching interest, and a topic for ongoing pedagogical collaboration with high school teachers and classes.