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Forest Pyle, Mentor
English

Sara Hendrickson, McNair Scholar

Forest Pyle received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1988 and joined the UO faculty in the Department of English the same year.  Currently, Associate Professor of English, he says of his work that it explores the “problems and possibilities posed by aesthetic experience” in the context of the Romantic tradition.  His publications include “‘The Power is There': Romanticism as Aesthetic Insistence,” Romantic Praxis (2005); “Kindling and Ash:  Radical Aestheticism in Keats and Shelley,” Studies in Romanticism (2003); and The Ideology of Imagination: Subject and Society in the Discourse of Romanticism, (Stanford University Press, 1995).  Prof. Pyle is completing a book manuscript exploring what he terms “radical aestheticism,” and he is poised to begin a new work focused on the Romanticism of contemporary popular culture.