Eric G. Wilson

Eric G. Wilson is the Thomas H. Pritchard Professor of English at Wake Forest University. He is the author of Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy and The Mercy of Eternity: A Memoir of Depression and Grace. He is also the author of The Strange World of David Lynch, Secret Cinema: Gnostic Vision in Film, The Melancholy Android: On the Psychology of Sacred Machines, Coleridge’s Melancholia: An Anatomy of Limbo, The Spiritual History of Ice, Romantic Turbulence, and Emerson’s Sublime Science.