Robert Southey Project - Editorial Team
Overview
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey is led by the co-directors Lynda Pratt, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer and brings together an editorial team of interdisciplinary scholars.
Tim Fulford, Lynda Pratt and Carol Bolton - previously worked together on Robert Southey: Poetical Works, 1794-1810 (5 vols, Pickering and Chatto, 2004), which was awarded an ‘Honorable Mention’ in the Modern Language Association of America Biennial Prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition (2005).
Editorial Team
Lynda Pratt is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Nottingham, and co-director of The Collected Letters. She was general editor of Robert Southey: Poetical Works, 1793-1810 (5 vols, Pickering and Chatto, 2004), for which she also edited three volumes. Her edited collection Robert Southey and the Contexts of English Romanticism was published in 2006. She has published widely in peer-reviewed essay collections and journals, including The Review of English Studies and The Modern Language Review.
Tim Fulford is Professor of English at De Montford University and co-director of The Collected Letters. A leading proponent of the new, historicised critique of literature as applied to the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries (especially Romantic literature), he edited Thalaba for Robert Southey: Poetical Works, 1793-1810. His most recent monograph, Romantic Indians, concerns representations of and also writings by Native Americans during the Romantic era.
Ian Packer is Reader in History at the University of Lincoln and co-director on The Collected Letters. An expert on nineteenth and early twentieth century British history, his publications include The Letters of Arnold Stephenson Rowntree to Mary Katherine Rowntree (Royal Historical Society/ Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Carol Bolton is a Senior Lecturer in English at Loughborough University and a volume editor on The Collected Letters. Before taking up her current post, she was the AHRC-funded postdoctoral senior research fellow on The Collected Letters. Her monograph Writing the Empire: Robert Southey and Romantic Colonialism was published by Pickering and Chatto in 2007. She was the editor of Romanticism and Politics, 1789-1832 (5 vols, Routledge, 2006) and her essays on Southey have appeared in peer-reviewed essay collections and journals.
Bill Speck was a Special Professor at the University of Nottingham and is a volume editor on The Collected Letters. His biography Robert Southey: Entire man of letters was published by Yale University Press in 2006.
Averill Buchanan was an AHRC-funded research fellow (2007-11) on The Collected Letters and was based at the University of Nottingham.She completed an AHRC-funded was PhD at Queen’s University Belfast in 2004 on the Anglo-Irish writer Mary Tighe. Her monograph Mary Tighe, 1772-1810: The Irish Psyche was published in 2012. Other publications include a bibliography of Tighe, published in CW3.
Sam Ward was an AHRC-funded research fellow (2007-10) on The Collected Letters and was based at the University of Nottingham. He completed an AHRC-funded PhD at Nottingham Trent University in 2006. He has published peer-reviewed essays on Southey, John Clare and Robert Bloomfield. He is developing an edition of the letters of James Montgomery.
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