Hilary Teynor Donatini

Hilary Teynor Donatini teaches the following courses for the major as well as the humanities core:
English 418: A History of the English Language
English 408: Eighteenth-Century English Literature
English 406: Seventeenth-Century English Literature
English 338: Great Ideas (Satire)
English 308: The Poem
English 217: British Literature
English 102: Composition II and English 101: Composition I

Research and Teaching Interests:
• Late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature of England, Scotland, and Ireland
• The romance and anti-romance tradition in eighteenth-century novels
• The intersection of religion and politics in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England and Scotland, especially Jacobitism
• Historical and philosophical contexts for literature
• The history and theory of satire and humor

Donatini has published on Henry Fielding's Tom Jones in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, and her article on Maria Edgeworth's Belinda is forthcoming in The Eighteenth-Century Novel. "The Holy House of Loreto: Politics and Idolatry in the Long Eighteenth Century" has been accepted for publication in an edited collection of essays. Her long-term project is a book on the concept of English liberty in the works of Tobias Smollett, and she is currently revising an article manuscript related to that project for submission to a journal. Donatini writes reviews for The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography.

Biography: After earning a B.A. at The College of Wooster in 1998, Donatini went on to The University of Wisconsin-Madison, finishing a Ph.D. in 2006 and teaching at both UW-Madison and a UW branch campus before joining Ashland's English department. She is the faculty advisor for Ashland University’s chapter of Sigma Tau Delta English honor society. Donatini led a study tour to London in May 2009 and plans to do so again.