Jonathan Allison

Jonathan Allison is a Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, specializing in 19th and 20th-century British and Irish literature, modernism, and textual studies. He holds a BA/PGCE from Queen's University Belfast, and MA/PhD from the University of Michigan. His research focuses on W.B. Yeats, Louis MacNeice, and Irish literature post-1945. He has edited major works including Letters of Louis MacNeice (2010, TLS 'Book of the Year') and contributed to essay collections like Yeats's Political Identities (1996).

Dr. Allison has taught at University College London and the University of Michigan. Notable roles include Director of the W.B. Yeats International Summer School and Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (Edinburgh). He co-curated prominent exhibitions at UK Libraries, including All the Olympians: Modern Irish Manuscripts (2017) and Four Nobel Laureates: Yeats, Shaw, Beckett, Heaney (2006).

His publications span Yeats's political engagement, modernist poetry, and Irish literary history. He has received recognition for his annotated editions and critical essays, appearing in journals like Sewanee Review and Yearbook of English Studies. His teaching covers modernism, British literature surveys, and specialized seminars on Yeats and Heaney.