Michael AllenN.E.H. Postdoctoral Fellow in Poetics

Michael Allen’s research and teaching focus on poetry and poetics and the development of the novel.

He received a Master’s from the University of Oxford and a PhD from Harvard University, where he taught a class on the literature and culture of cities in the university’s Writing Program. His work on poetry and urban planning has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Harvard-Mellon Urban Institute, and the Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. His articles have appeared, or will appear, in The Keats-Shelley Review, Textual Practice, and Modernist Cultures. He is the winner of the British Association for Modernist Studies Essay Prize, the English Postgraduate Essay Prize, and the Keats-Shelley Essay Prize.