Alexander Regier

Alexander Regier is Professor of English at Rice University, and the the editor of SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900.

He is the author of "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 edited the collection "Wordsworth’s Poetic Theory" (Palgrave, 2010) as well as special journal issues on “Mobilities” and “Genealogies”.

Regier’s articles on Wordsworth, Blake, Moravianism, ruins, Johann Georg Hamann, Walter Benjamin and street names, gendered articles and philosophy, Durs Grünbein’s prose, utopianism, and the aesthetics of sport have appeared in European Romantic Review, The Byron Journal, Blake in Context (ed. Haggarty), Wordsworth in Context (ed. Bennett), Ruins of Modernity (ed. Hell, Schönle), Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism (ed. Hamilton), The Germanic Review, Forum for Modern Language Studies, Durs Grünbein Today (ed. Young, Leeder), Tous azimuts, Sport in History, and Sporting Cultures (ed. O'Quin; Tadie).

He has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, most recently an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers and a Visiting Fellowship at Centre for Research in the Arts Social Sciences and Humanities CRASSH (Cambridge).