Prof Nicholas Roe
Education and Experience
Nicholas Roe is professor of English at the University of St Andrews. His doctoral research at Oxford was on'Wordsworth, Coleridge and the French Revolution, 1785-95'. He was Lecturer in English at Queen's University Belfast and came to St Andrews in 1985. In 1989 he was a Visiting Professor at the Department of English, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He is editor of the peer-reviewed scholarly journal Romanticism, Academic Director of the Coleridge Summer Conference, and a Trustee of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association.
Research Interests
Nicholas Roe's areas of specialisation include Romantic literature and culture, especially Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats and Leigh Hunt. He is currently writing a biography of John Keats for Yale University Press, and editing the new edition of Keats's poems for Longman Annotated English Poets series. He would welcome enquiries from postgraduate students interested in working on any aspect of Romantic literature or culture.
