Dr Thomas Duggett FEA FRHistS FHEA
Honorary Fellow in the Department of English; Reader in the Department of Literary and Translation Studies at XJTLU XJTLU Administration
About
Personal Statement
Tom Duggett is Honorary Fellow in the Department of English and Reader in Romanticism at Xi’an Jiaotong - Liverpool University (XJTLU; Suzhou, China). He also holds senior fellowships at the University of St Andrews and the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.
Tom is the author of Gothic Romanticism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), a study of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the ancient constitution, which received the Modern Language Association of America's Prize for Independent Scholars for Distinguished Research in Language and Literature. He is Fellow of the English Association (elected 2024), Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (elected May 2022) and a Life Member of the Wordsworth Conference Foundation (elected 2018).
Tom is part of the team working to produce the forthcoming Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ann Radcliffe. Recent publications include the chapter on Religious Controversy in The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose (2024); an essay on Coleridge and R.G. Collingwood's Idea of History in Romanticism 29:1 (2023); a revised and expanded edition of his book Gothic Romanticism for Palgrave Gothic (2022); and the chapter on Coleridge and History in The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge (2022).