Emily Wing Rohrbach

Dr. Emily Wing Rohrbach is an Associate Professor of English Literature (1660-1832) at Durham University's Department of English Studies. She previously held academic positions at Northwestern University, Hamilton College, and the University of Manchester. Her research centers on British and transatlantic Romanticism, exploring intersections between poetics, aesthetics, historiography, and the materiality of the codex book.

• PhD, Boston University

Her work interrogates Romantic-era literature's engagement with modernity's temporal challenges, political possibilities, and conceptual richness. Key projects include Codex Poetics: Romantic Books and the Politics of Reading (Leverhulme-supported) and Modernity's Mist: British Romanticism and the Poetics of Anticipation (Fordham UP, 2016). She co-edited the 50th-anniversary issue of Studies in Romanticism with Emily Sun.

Dr. Rohrbach's publications span 15+ years, revealing sustained interest in Romantic poetics, narrative theory, and book materiality. Her 2024-2018 articles examine counterfactual imagination in Austen, codex symbolism in Keats, and historical temporality's role in Romantic writing.

Scientific accolades include:

• Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2022-23)
• AdvanceHE Aurora Programme for Women in Leadership (2023)
• Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy
• John Rylands Research Institute Pilot Grant (2019)

As Deputy Director of Research and EDI Coordinator at Durham, she has shaped departmental strategy while teaching diverse modules from Romantic literature to poetry materiality. She is currently preparing a public talk on Keats's encounter with Shakespeare folios tied to Durham's special collections.