Celeste Langan

Celeste Langan serves as an Associate Professor within the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley, where her scholarship centers on Romantic-era literature and critical theory.

Her research encompasses:

• Romantic Literature
• 19th Century British Literature
• Literary Theory
• Poetry

Key contributions include the monograph Romantic Vagrancy (1995) and Praxis publications such as "Romantic Materialities, or 'This is not a Thing'", examining material culture in works by Sir Walter Scott, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Lord Byron. Her analytical approach bridges historical context with theoretical frameworks to interrogate textual and physical artifacts of the Romantic period.