Profile: Jesse Molesworth recently received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and specializes in the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century, particularly the sociological development of the novel. He is currently completing a book manuscript titled Chance's Spell: The Novel and the Poverty of Enlightenment Epistemology, examining the novel's engagement with probability theory and its ultimate capacity (or lack thereof) to enlighten. His writing has appeared or will appear in Texas Studies in Language and Literature, ELH, and in a collection of essays on eighteenth-century gambling. Before coming to Johns Hopkins, he taught at Stanford and at McGill University, where he taught courses on the Victorian Gothic, metaphysical poetry, and eighteenth-century print-media culture.
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