Music, Madness, and Disenchantment: Roderick Usher and the Ballad “The Mad Trist”

charity mcadams is a member of the Honors Faculty at the Barrett Honors College of Arizona State University, where she has the pleasure of teaching literature to bright young minds. She studied for her Ph.D. in English literature in the romantic mists of Scotland, earning her degree in 2013 from the University of Edinburgh. She is forever grateful to her mentors there, Peter Dayan and Sarah Dunnigan, to the Word and Music Association for their feedback on her work on Poe, and to all of those at the Edgar Allan Poe Review, who have been so generous.