Abstract: “Negative Aesthetics: Coleridge’s Philosophical History of Bad Poetry” (Keynote 2)
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Bio: Queen Mary University, London, UK
He joined Queen Mary in 2016, having previously taught for many years at the University of Aberdeen, the Nicholas Copernicus University of Torun, in Poland, and was British Council lecturer at the University of Gdansk for two years. He later spent a semester on a staff exchange at the College of William and Mary in the USA and in 2015 was a professeur invité at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
He retains close links with Europe and in 2016 founded the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar, an international research forum involving other colleges of the University of London and a number of French institutions. He is also co-director of the International Summer School of Romanticism, an annual event launched in Prague in 2022.
He is interested in all aspects of Romanticism, including its international dimension. My other main research interest is the history and theory of genres, and literary theory more generally.