Event Date:

Wednesday, November 6th

7:00pm - 8:00pm (CST)

Keck Hall Room 100

Reception: 6:30-7:00 PM

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Speaker:

Alexander Regier is William Faulkner Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Rice University. He also holds a full appointment in the Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures.

In recent years, he has won Fellowships at the National Humanities Center (2023), a research award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2023), the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (2018-20) as well as visiting Fellowships at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities at the University of Cambridge (2017) and The University of Exeter (2015).

Regier is the author of the books Exorbitant Enlightenment: Blake, Hamann, and Anglo-German Constellations (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Fracture and Fragmentation in British Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2010). He has co-edited the collection Wordsworth’s Poetic Theory (Palgrave, 2010) as well as special journal issues on “Mobilities” and “Genealogies” and the Bloomsbury Handbook on Sports Writing 1789-2020, which is under contract. His monograph Awkwardness: The History and Art of Unease has been completed and he is currently writing a book in German about the labor of reading.