{"id":2189,"date":"2021-01-24T13:32:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T18:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/?page_id=2189"},"modified":"2025-09-18T11:29:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:29:41","slug":"will-glover","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/will-glover\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Glover"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My research interests lie in early American literature, culture, and history. My dissertation, \u201cThe Poetics of Colonial Accounting in Early America,\u201d\u00a0examines the paradoxical, productive relationship between two seemingly opposed rhetorical strands in early American non-fiction: on the one hand, a drive to quantify, measure, and monetize\u2014especially in matters of land and resources\u2014and on the other, a deep aesthetic investment in the boundless, the ineffable, and the Edenic. Across canonical and archival texts by settler, Indigenous, and African writers, I trace the peculiar relationship between quantification and wonder.<\/span><\/p>\n

Education<\/span><\/b><\/span>
\nPh.D. in English, Boston University (expected Summer 2026)<\/span>
\nM.A. in\u00a0English, Boston University (2022)<\/span>
\nM.A. in Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of York (2017)<\/span>
\nB.A. in English Language and Literature, Exeter College, University of Oxford (2016)<\/span><\/p>\n

Presentations<\/span><\/b>
\n\u201c\u2018There are two kindes of Walnuts, and of them infinit store\u2019: the poetics of lists in Thomas Hariot\u2019s Briefe and True Report,\u201d Society of Early Americanists Biennial Conference at Notre Dame (June 6th, 2025)<\/span>
\n“Cr\u00e8vec\u0153ur\u2019s bees,\u201d Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention in Boston (March 8th, 2024)<\/span>
\n\u201cGenerative heritage: Indigenous history-work in William Bartram\u2019s Travels,\u201d American Literature Association Annual Conference in Boston (May 27th, 2023)
\n\u201cA country for old men: wondrous gerontocracy in Sir Walter Ralegh\u2019s The Discovery of Guiana,\u201d Travel & Wonder, 1450-1750 at the University of York (online, April 27th 2023)
\n\u201cMaroons and morasses: complicating the swamp in antebellum literature,\u201d Boston University Americanist Forum (March 27th, 2023)
\n\u201cNative American petitions in New England, 1675\u20131763,\u201d Modern Languages Association Annual Convention in San Francisco (January 8th, 2023)
\n\u201cThe state of the archive & Native American petitions,\u201d The Mobile Archive Project Symposium, University of Siegen, Germany (online, November 2021)<\/p>\n

Peer-reviewed Publications<\/b>
\n\u201cA Country for Old Men? Wondrous Gerontocracy in Sir Walter Ralegh\u2019s The Discovery of Guiana,\u201d 38-56 in Travel and Wonder in the Early Modern World: Representations, Descriptions, and Uses of the Unfamiliar, ed. Jaska Kainulainen (Routledge, 2025)
\n\u201c\u2018On Poetry and geometric Truth\u2019: Wordsworth\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Genius Loci<\/i>,\u201d\u00a0<\/span>The Wordsworth Circle<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>54:1, 63-85 (Winter 2023).
\n“‘Where many paths and errands meet’: Travel Writing in\u00a0The Lord of the Rings”<\/i>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Journal of Tolkien Research<\/i>, 9:2 (2020).<\/p>\n

Other Publications and Reviews:<\/span><\/b><\/span>
\nConference review of ALA 2023 in Early American Literature, Vol. 59:2 (2024), 522-527.<\/span>
\n\u201cEthical dilemmas of the digital Robinsonade: What should we do with \u2018colonialist\u2019 video games?\u201d\u00a0Ampersand: An American Studies Journal, Vol. 2:2 (Summer 2023).
\n\u201cTolkien\u2019s Legacy,\u201d BU Today\u00a0<\/i>(August 30, 2023).<\/span>
\n\u201cThresholds,\u201d Rucksack Magazine<\/i> Vol. 8, Coasts<\/i> (September 2021).
\n\u201cSpaces,”\u00a0Rucksack Magazine<\/i>\u00a0Vol. 6,\u00a0Endless<\/i>\u00a0(April 2020).<\/span>
\n“Pedestrian Thinking,”\u00a0Rucksack Magazine<\/i>\u00a0Vol. 5,\u00a0The City Issue<\/i>\u00a0(November 2019).<\/span>
\n“Lies and Longing,”\u00a0Rucksack Magazine<\/i>\u00a0Vol. 4,\u00a0The Pursuit Issue<\/i>\u00a0(April 2019).<\/span>
\n“The Perils of Pilgrimage,”\u00a0Rucksack Magazine<\/i>\u00a0Vol. 3,\u00a0The Island Issue<\/i>\u00a0(September 2018).<\/span>
\n“The Window\u2019s Eye,”\u00a0Rucksack Magazine<\/i>\u00a0online\u00a0(May 2018).<\/span>
\n“Tolkien\u2019s Beowulf,”\u00a0Exon<\/i>\u00a0(2014), 65.<\/span><\/p>\n

Teaching:<\/strong>
\n\u201cReading and Writing the American Environment\u201d (EN 120, EN 195)
\n\u201cCrossing Borders: Exploring and Expanding the Genre of Travel Writing\u201d (WR 120, WR 151)<\/p>\n

My CV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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