Aaron Ottinger

Part-time Lecturer

ajo3@uw.edu

CV (226.14 KB)

Fields of Interest

• 18th Century
• 19th Century
• Affect
• Cognitive Science
• Media Studies
• Philosophy
• Poetry and Poetics
• Romanticism
• Science and Technology

• History of Mathematics

Background and Experience

Summary

Ph.D., English University of Washington, 2016

Research

Publications, Reviews

• Ottinger, Aaron. Review of Literature After Euclid: The Geometric Imagination in the Long Scottish Enlightenment, by Matthew Wickman. Romantic Circles, 2017.   

Graduate, Dissertations

• Ottinger, Aaron. The Role of Geometry in Wordsworth's "Science of Feelings." 2016. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.  
  Adviser: Marshall Brown, Adviser: Raimonda Modiano, Adviser: Charles LaPorte

Publications, Essays and Articles

• Ottinger, Aaron. “Geometry, the Body, and Affect in Wordsworth&Apos;s The Ruined Cottage.” Essays in Romanticism, vol. 21, no. 2, 2014, pp. 159–178.  

Courses Taught

Autumn 2021

• ENGL 265 A: Introduction to Environmental Humanities

Spring 2018

• ENGL 111 Y: Composition: Literature

Winter 2018

• ENGL 131 C2: Composition: Exposition

Autumn 2017

• ENGL 200 C: Reading Literary Forms: “Prometheus Bound and Unbound”: Science and Literature from Oral Culture to Digital Media

Summer 2017 Full-term

• ENGL 242 C: Reading Prose Fiction

Spring 2017

• ENGL 200 F: Reading Literary Forms: Alien Minds: Poetics and Mathematics from Print Media to Artificial Intelligence

Winter 2017

• ENGL 131 Y1: Composition: Exposition
• ENGL 200 G: Reading Literary Forms

Autumn 2016

• ENGL 242 F: Reading Prose Fiction: Science Fiction&Speculative Fiction: A History of Genres and Media

Spring 2016

• ENGL 297 D: Intermediate Interdisciplinary Writing - Humanities

Winter 2016

• ENGL 111 Q: Composition: Literature

Spring 2015

• ENGL 111 O: Composition: Literature

Winter 2015

• ENGL 111 Z: Composition: Literature

Spring 2014

• ENGL 111 M: Composition: Literature

Winter 2014

• ENGL 111 Q: Composition: Literature