Eric Wilson

Dr. Eric Wilson is Professor of English at Wake Forest University, specializing in Romanticism's intersections with psychology, American cultural studies, and film. His influential scholarship examines cultural expressions of melancholy, authenticity, and existential creativity across literature and media.

Pioneering works include analyses of melancholy's creative potential in Against Happiness, explorations of Gothic sensibilities in Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck, and recent biographical studies of Charles Lamb. Current projects investigate weirdness as creative practice and narrative identity construction.

Dr. Wilson teaches courses spanning British Romantic poetry, American literature, Gothic traditions, and film studies. His interdisciplinary approach connects literary analysis with psychological frameworks and cultural theory.