KLP Advisory Board

The Keats Letters Project Advisory Board

Jeffrey Cox, Professor of English and Humanities, and Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of many books and articles, including Poetry and Politics of the Cockney School: Shelley, Keats, Hunt, and Their Circle (Cambridge, 1998), and the editor of Keats’s Poetry and Prose (Norton, 2008).

Neil Fraistat, Professor of English and Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland. He has published widely in the fields of Romanticism, textual studies, and digital humanities, including The Poem and the Book (University of North Carolina, 1985) and, as co-editor with Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux, Reimagining Textuality: Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print (University of Wisconsin, 2002). He is also a founder and general editor of Romantic Circles.

Edward Hirsch is President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He has published many books of poetry, including most recently, Gabriel: A Poem (Knopf, 2014), and the selected collection, The Living Fire (Knopf, 2010). He is also the author of several prose books about reading poetry, and in 2001 he wrote the introduction for the Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats (Modern Library, 2001).

Beth Lau is Professor Emerita at California State University, Long Beach. She is the author of several books and articles on Keats, including Keats’s Paradise Lost (University of Florida, 1998) and Keats’s Reading of the Romantic Poets (University of Michigan, 1991). She is also the editor of Fellow Romantics: Male and Female British Writers, 1790-1835 (Ashgate, 2009).

Nicholas Roe is Professor of English Literature at the University of St. Andrews and Chair of the Keats Foundation. Among his many publications on Keats and Romanticism are John Keats and the Culture of Dissent (Oxford, 1997) and (as editor) Keats and History (Cambridge, 1995). More recently he has published two biographies, Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh Hunt (Pimlico, 2005) and John Keats: A New Life (Yale, 2013).

Susan Wolfson is Professor of English at Princeton University. She has published widely in the field of Romanticism, including many works on Keats. Among these are Reading John Keats (Cambridge, 2015), and (as editor) The Cambridge Companion to John Keats (Cambridge, 2001). She has also edited many works by Romantic writers, including Austen, Byron, Hemans, and Mary Shelley. And she formerly served as the General Editor of the Longman Cultural Editions series, for which she edited John Keats, A Longman Cultural Edition (2007).