Areas of Interest
- American Culture and Mental Health
- Transatlantic Romanticism
- The Gothic
- Literature and Psychology
- Film and Religion
- Western Esoteric Traditions
- Humanism and Technology
Courses Taught at Wake Forest
- WRI 111 The Gothic
- ENG 350 British Romantic Poets
- ENG 372 American Romanticism
- ENG 376 American Poetry Before 1900
- ENG 746 Studies in British Romanticism
- ENG 772 Studies in American Romanticism
Selected Publications
- Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck; or, Why We Can’t Stop Looking at Terrible Things (New York: Sarah Crichton/ Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, forthcoming, 2012).
- My Business Is To Create: Blake’s Infinite Writing (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2011).
- The Mercy of Eternity: A Memoir of Depression and Grace (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2010).
- Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy (New York: Sarah Crichton/ Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008).
- The Strange World of David Lynch: Transcendental Irony from Eraserhead to Mulholland Dr (New York and London: Continuum International Publishing, 2007).
- The Melancholy Android: On the Psychology of Sacred Machines (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2006).
- Secret Cinema: Gnostic Vision in Film (New York and London: Continuum International Publishing, 2006).
Additional Professional Information
Curriculum Vitae for Dr. Wilson
Dr. Wilson’s Personal Website
