Ahearn,Barry                            

Albrecht,Thomas                        

Burke,Molly                                

Codr,Dwight                           

Cooley,Peter                                   

Desai,Gaurav                                      

Dinerstein,Joel                             

Edmonds,Dale                                   

Elmwood,Victoria                    Foster,Ken                                

Foy,Roslyn                             

Gelley,Ora                                         

Goldman,Jonathan                                   Johnson,T.R.                                                       Kaufmann,David        

Koritz,Amy                                            

Kuczynski,Michael                             

Leland,Jacob                                       

Letter,Joe                                          

Lewis,Nghana                                   

Livingston,Judith                          

Mark,Rebecca                                    

Morris,Paula                                         

Munkhoff,Richelle                              

Nair,Supriya                                        

Oldman,Elizabeth                                     

Pizer,Donald                                        

Rothenberg,Molly       

Smith,Felipe                                          

Snare,Gerald                                        

Toulouse,Teresa                         

Travis,Molly           

  Dwight Codr

Assistant Professor of English

Norman Mayer Room 112

Telephone: (504) 862-8157

Fax: (504) 862-8958

E-mail: dcodr@tulane.edu

Dwight Codr is an Assistant Professor of English Literature, specializing in British literature of the eighteenth century.  He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2005.  His current book project explores the complicated relationship between England’s financial revolution (1690-1750) and the development of the English novel.  His research and seminars seek to uncover and explore the ways in which early British fiction helped to create legal and moral distinctions between legitimate and illegitimate economic practices, hence his related interests in criminal biography, religious history, piracy, and political theory.  Central to these inquiries is an attempt to fashion a methodology for the evaluation of what Professor Codr calls “temporal ethics,” or the subtle and often implicit ways that a culture places value on imagining future events.  For while expecting future returns on a loan or investment was considered impious and highly immoral throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries  (both examples or instances of usury), in the first decades of the eighteenth century England quite suddenly came to accept the myriad speculative behaviors that comprise the bulk of financial behaviors (saving, planning, insuring, investing, stock-trading, lending, etc.). One of the primary conditions for this shift, he argues, was the novel: a literary form that helped average English men and women to understand and imagine the opportunities presented by and the limits that must be placed upon financial adventures.