Chris Koenig-Woodyard

Chris Koenig-Woodyard teaches eighteenth to twenty-first century literature, with a focus on genre (from the fantastic to the realistic). He is the co-editor of Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of American, British, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867; ‘Sullen Fires across the Atlantic’: Essays in British and American Romanticism; a special issue of Romanticism on the Net on "Transatlantic Romanticism"; and a special issue of the University of Toronto Quarterly on "Monster Studies." He is a contributing editor and writer to the six-volume series The Broadview Anthology of British Literature and The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Poetry. He has published on British, American and Transatlantic Romanticism; the pedagogy of literary studies; the digital humanities; the novel; comic books, gender, genre, politics, and race; and the gothic. His current research focuses on Posthumanism and Monster Studies, and he is the founding Director of the Monster Studies Lab. He is a recipient of an Undergraduate Teaching Award at the University of Toronto, and has been a nominee and finalist for TVO’s Best Lecturer competition, a Leadership in Faculty Teaching award (Province of Ontario), and the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (UTM).