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Office Hours with John Gardner
Episode 180- Reshaping the First Year Program with Aleksondra Hultquis
Aleksondra Hultquist is an Associate Professor of Critical Thinking and First-Year Studies at Stockton University. Her teaching focus is in Critical Thinking, and a variety of General Studies courses, including Poetry & Mathematics, The Passions, and Adaptations. Her work focuses on the literature and culture of the long eighteenth-century, especially women writers and the passions. She has edited a special issue for Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation called “Emotion in the Eighteenth Century” (2017), and co-edited (with Elizabeth Mathews) New Perspectives on Delarivier Manley and Eighteenth-Century Literature (Routledge, 2017) as well as A Spy on Eliza Haywood, co-edited with Chris Mounsey (Routledge 2022). She has published many articles, including “Amorous Constitutions: Bodies and the Affect of Amatory Seduction in Eliza Haywood’s Lasselia” in Restoration (2020) and "Passionate Educations: John Locke, Aphra Behn, and Jane Austen” in English Literature (2018). Her current projects include her manuscript The Amatory Mode: Amatory Fiction’s Passionate Legacy and editing vol. 6 (Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister) of the Works of Aphra Behn by Cambridge University Press (2027). She is the president of The Aphra Behn Society and a founding editor of ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1660-1830. She is an Honorary Researcher for the Australian Research Council’s Center of Excellence for the History of Emotion and was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Loughborough University in 2023.
I also like quilting, paddleboarding, and cooking. I love the beach—not a pina colada fan, though. Also, being an academic is my third career. And I can shuck clams, though I was better at it in college.
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