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William Keach

Professor of English

Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 208
Phone: (401) 863-3742

Courses '09-'10
  Sem I:
  •  ENGL 0600E - S01: British Romanticism -- CRN 14934
  •  ENGL 1900D - S01: Literature and Politics -- CRN 11382
  Sem II:
  •  ENGL 0410G - S01: Literature and Revolutions, 1640-1840 -- CRN 24941
  •  ENGL 1561D - S01: Writing and the Ruins of Empire -- CRN 24999

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Degrees
Ph.D. Yale University 1970
M.A. Oxford University 1967
B.A. University of Texas, Austin 1965

Research Interests
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature and culture, including Blake, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and other writers in what is still called the "Romantic" tradition; literary theory and historical materialism; transatlantic literary culture.

Professional Accomplishments
Keach taught at Rutgers before coming to Brown in 1986 and was supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1988-89.   In 1983 he was given a Lindback Award for Excellence in Teaching at Rutgers, and in 1998 a Distinguished Scholar Award by the Keats-Shelley Association of America.   He is the author of Elizabethan Erotic Narratives (1976), Shelley's Style (1984), and Arbitrary Power: Romanticism, Language, Politics (2004), and has edited Coleridge: The Complete Poems for the Penguin English Poets series (1997).   His edition of Trotsky's Literature and Revolution will be published in 2004 by Haymarket Press.   His articles have appeared in Studies in Romanticism, European Romantic Review, The Keats-Shelley Journal, Left History, and other scholarly journals, and he contributed the section on "Poetry, after 1740" in volume 4 of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (1997).