Michael Gamer

Michael Gamer is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of Romanticism and the Gothic (Cambridge UP, 2000) and Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry (Cambridge, 2017). As a member of the Multigraph Collective, he helped to create Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print Saturation (University of Chicago Press, 2018). With Angela Wright, he is General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ann Radcliffe; his edition of The Italian appeared in 2026. His collaborations with other scholars have produced an edition (Lyrical Ballads 1798 and 1800, Broadview, 2008; with Dahlia Porter); an anthology (The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Period Theatre, Broadview, 2003; with Jeffrey Cox); an edited collection (A Cultural History of Tragedy, Vol. 5, Bloomsbury, 2021; with Diego Saglia); and (with Dr. Deven Parker) a performance database of early English melodrama, which will launch in 2026. Editions include Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto (Penguin, 2002) and Charlotte Smith's Manon L'Escaut and the Romance of Real Life (Pickering and Chatto, 2005); essays on poetic collections, the Gothic, book history, Jane Austen, dramas of spectacle, gender and performance, periodicals, It-narratives, the novel, print culture, authorship, and pornography have appeared in MLQ, PMLA, Novel, ELH, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Studies in Romanticism, and other journals. At the University of Pennsylvania, he has been honored with the Ira Abrams, Lindback, College of General Studies, David Delaura, and Alan Filreis awards for distinguished teaching.