Karen E. Swann

Karen Swann

Morris Professor of Rhetoric, Emerita

Areas of Expertise

British romantic-literature, including romantic poetry, colonial literature, and the literature of natural history; poetics and eco-poetics; contemporary poetry.

Scholarship/Creative Work

Scholarship, including recent publications:

“John Clare: the sonnet ‘ill at rest.’” The Wordsworth Circle. Summer 2021.
“Coleridge’s Later Poetry.” In The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge, ed. Timothy Fulford
(Cambridge UP, 2021).
“The Butter Bump, a Magpie, John Clare.” Romanticism on the Net (online), Summer 2020.
Lives of the Dead Poets: Keats, Shelley, Coleridge (Fordham University Press, LitZ series, 2018).
“The Mask of Keats.” Romantic Circles Praxis Series (online), special issue on “Minimal
Romanticism,” ed. David L. Clark and Jacques Khalip. Spring 2016.
“Teaching Jerusalem.” European Romantic Review, ed. Jonathan Mulrooney 25:3 (June
2014), 397-402.
“Blake’s Jerusalem: Friendship with Albion.” Blackwell’s Companion to British Romanticism, ed. Charles Mahoney. Blackwell’s, 2011.
“Shelley’s Pod People.” Romantic Praxis (online). Winter 2005.
“Endymion’s Beautiful Dreamers.” The Cambridge Companion to Keats, ed. Susan
Wolfson. Cambridge UP, 2001.

Professional Affiliations

Modern Language Association

North American Society for the Study of Romanticism