Stephen Behrendt

University Professor and George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English

Degrees and institutions granting the degree

• University of Wisconsin, Ph.D.

Professional areas of specialty

• British Romanticism
• later 18th-century British literature
• women writers of the Romantic period
• Literature and the Other Arts
• Blake
• the Shelley circle
• Creative Writing (Poetry)

Courses regularly taught

• British Poetry of the Romantic Period
• Romanticism
• Seminars in individual Romantic authors
• Women writers of the Romantic period
• Romantic Ficton
• Interdisciplinary Theory

Selected Publications and/or projects

• History (poetry). Minneapolis: Mid-List Press, 2005.
• Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period. Co-Edited with Nancy J. Kushigian. Alexander Street Press. 2002.
• Romanticism and Women Poets: Opening the Doors of Reception, co-edited with Harriet Kramer Linkin. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999.
• Royal Mourning and Regency Culture: Elegies and Memorials of Princess Charlotte. London/New York: Macmillan/St. Martin's, 1997.
• Romanticism, Radicalism, and the Press, edited with an introductory essay by Stephen C. Behrendt. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1997.
• A Step in the Dark (poetry). Minneapolis: Mid-List Press, 1996.
• Reading William Blake. London/New York: Macmillan/St. Martin's, 1992.

Current research activities include projects on Romantic women writers and radical politics, William Blake, Romantic fiction, and issues of canonicity and periodicity in the Romantic period.