About
Dr Christopher Stokes is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Exeter, specializing in Romantic poetry. His recent work includes the monograph Romantic Prayer: Reinventing the Poetics of Devotion 1773–1830 (Oxford University Press, 2021) and ongoing projects on the 'occasional poem' in the Romantic era and British Romanticism’s relationship with Portugal.
- BA in English Language and Literature, University of Oxford (2000–2003)
- MA in European Thought, University College London (2003–2004)
- D.Phil in English Literature, University of Sussex (2004–2008)
His research spans women's writing, intersections of poetry with religion and theology, subjectivity and embodiment in literature, and broader fields including Literary Studies, Gender Studies, Religious Studies, and Theology. He has edited Selected Poems of Bernard Barton (Anthem Press, 2020) and authored Coleridge, Language and the Sublime: From Transcendence to Finitude (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
