Richard C. Sha

Richard C. Sha has long been fascinated by how literary culture of the Romantic period is informed by science. His new book, Imagination and Science in Romanticism, is forthcoming from the Johns Hopkins University Press in August 2018. In it, he considers the relation between scientific creativity and literary creativity, as he situates the works of such scientists as Humphry Davy, Michael Faraday, Erasmus Darwin, Goethe, and Kant alongside Percy and Mary Shelley, Coleridge, and Blake. His previous books, Romanticism and the Emotions, which he co-edited with Joel Faflak, was published by Cambridge University Press, and Perverse Romanticism, a study of how aesthetics connects to Sexuality, came out from Hopkins in 2009. His books have been widely reviewed by such Journals as The Social History of Medicine, Times Literary Supplement, Studies in Romanticism, and the Journal of the History of Sexuality. His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the Huntington Library in California.