Additional Campus Affiliations
W. D. and Sara E. Trowbridge Professor, English
Professor, English
Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Professor, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
Highlighted Publications
Markley, R. (2006). The Far East and the English Imagination, 1600–1730. Cambridge University Press.
Markley, R. (2005). Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822387275
Markley, R. (1994). Fallen Languages: Crises of Representation in Newtonian England, 1660–1740. Cornell University Press. https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501744624
Markley, R. (1988). Two-Edg'd Weapons: Style and Ideology in the Comedies of Etherege, Wycherley, and Congreve. Clarendon Press.
Markley, R. (2019). Kim Stanley Robinson. (Modern Masters of Science Fiction). University of Illinois Press. https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctvscxrzw
Recent Publications
Markley, R. (2023). Defoe and the Pacific. In N. Seager, & J. A. Downie (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe (pp. 544-561). (Oxford Handbooks). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198827177.013.34
Markley, R. (2023). Economics. In A. J. Rivero, & G. Justice (Eds.), Daniel Defoe in Context (pp. 305-329). (Literature in Context). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108872140.044
Markley, R. (2023). Moving beyond “Why Mars?”. Science, 380(6646), 697. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adh7737
Markley, R. (2022). The Draining of the Fens: Projectors, Popular Politics, and State Building in Early Modern England by Eric H. Ash (review). Technology and Culture, 63(3), 857-858. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2022.0114
Markley, R. (2022). The Novel and the Environment: Nature, Cultivation, and Alien Ecologies. In Handbook of the British Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century (pp. 123-138). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110650440-007