About
Tom Duggett is Honorary Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Liverpool, and Reader in English Literature at Xi’an Jiaotong - Liverpool University (XJTLU; Suzhou, China). He is also Senior Fellow in the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.
Tom is the author of 'Gothic Romanticism' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010; 2nd ed. 2022), 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. His work has appeared in journals such as Romanticism, Review of English Studies, and The Wordsworth Circle. 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', with his edition of 'The Romance of the Forest' (1791) due to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2026. 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).