Brad Isles / Wednesday, December 11, 2024 / Categories: All Faculty, English, Writing Program Louise McCray Education Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, Scotland MPhil, University of Cambridge, England Selected research I research the philosophy of fiction with a special interest in Romantic-era Britain. My Ph.D. explored the work of novelist and philosopher William Godwin through the lens of media history. Courses taught WRIT101 – Foundations of Academic Discourse HUMA202 – Civilization and Literature WRIT120 – Tutoring Student Writers Selected publications "Beauty and Persuasion in Fiction," Between Times 3 (forthcoming 2026) "The Real Problem with Romantasy," ARC Magazine, April 2026 "Libraries and the Formation of Character in Nineteenth-Century Novels," in Libraries in Literature, ed. Alice Crawford and Robert Crawford (Oxford University Press, 2022), 86–101 Godwin and the Book: Imagining Media, 1783-1836 (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) "Peril in the means of its diffusion": William Godwin on Truth and Social Media," Journal of the History of Ideas 81:1 (2020), 67-84 "Novel-Reading, Ethics, and William Godwin in the 1830s," Studies in Romanticism 59:2 (2020), 209-23 Print 3378 Rate this article: No rating Staff/Faculty ImageLastnameMcCrayTitleAssistant Professor of English; Assistant Director of the Writing CenterGrove City College AlumniOffice Phone Number+1-724-458-3384Email AddressMcCrayJL@gcc.edu Please login or register to post comments.