Will Glovinsky
Research Assistant Professor of Humanities
External Scholarships and Undergraduate Research Center
Background
Will Glovinsky’s teaching and research focus on 19th-century British literature and culture, radical history, and political economy. At Binghamton, he has taught Source Project research streams on “Debating Basic Income,” “Futures Past,” and “Empathy, Ethics, and Narrative.” These courses are closely tied to his ongoing research projects, which ask how political and economic ideas are developed, contested, and spread through literature, philosophy, and popular culture.
His current research explores how the idea of universal basic income—or giving cash regularly to everyone—emerged in 18th- and 19th-century tavern ballads, dialogues, essays, and novels. His other scholarship has examined topics such as the regulation of feeling in realist novels and imperial culture, narrators who feel guilty about their villains, and the history of close reading. His essays have been published in Victorian Studies, English Literary History, and Studies in Romanticism, among other journals. Beyond the academy, his writing has appeared in Public Books, Los Angeles Review of Books, and other venues.
Education
PhD, Columbia University
BA, Swarthmore College
Research Interests
Literature and history of Britain and its colonies, 1775-1918
Radical history
Political economy and the history of economic ideas
Utopian literature
History of emotions
Literary realism
Teaching Interests
Culture, literature, and politics of 19th-century Britain and its colonies
History of radical movements
Victorian popular genres (detective fiction, utopian/dystopian literature)
Sympathy, empathy, and literature