Peter J. Kitson is a British academic and author specializing in the literary history of the Romantic era. He is currently Professor of English Literature at the University of Dundee

University of Dundee

The University of Dundee is a university based in the city and Royal burgh of Dundee on eastern coast of the central Lowlands of Scotland and with a small number of institutions elsewhere....

. His doctoral thesis was on 'The Seventeenth-century Influence on the Early Religious and Political Thought of S. T. Coleridge, 1790-1805'. Kitson has authored and edited many books and many articles on Romantic era literature, and has specialised in theories of race, slavery, and empire in the period. His publications include the important Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation: Writings in the British Romantic Period, which provided modern readers with a substantial body of eighteenth-century writings about race and slavery. Kitson has served as President of the English Association (2007-10) and President of the British Association for Romantic Studies (2007-2011). He has received numerous research awards and Fellowships including awards from the Leverhulme Trust, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Huntington Library and the Carnegie Trust for Scotland. He is an Honorary Fellow of the English Association.

Publications

(Edited with Brycchan Carey

Brycchan Carey

Brycchan Carey is a British academic and author specializing in the cultural history of slavery and abolition. He was educated at Goldsmiths' College, University of London and Queen Mary, University of London, where he completed a doctorate called "The Rhetoric of Sensibility: Argument, Sentiment,...

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(Edited with Tim Fulford and Debbie Lee)
(Edited with Debbie Lee)

(Edited with Tim Fulford)
(Edited with Thomas N. Corns)

External links

• British Association for Romantic Studies
• Peter Kitson at the University of Dundee
• The English Association