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Robert Markley

Professor

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

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Recent Publications

Markley, R. (2023). Defoe and the Pacific. In N. Seager, & J. A. Downie (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe (pp. 544). Oxford University Press.

Markley, R. (2023). Defoe and the Pacific. In The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe (pp. 544-561). 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

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