Michael Rizq

Dr. Michael Rizq is a Research Fellow at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. He holds a PhD in English from Cambridge and previously studied English and French at St John's College, Oxford, followed by an MPhil in English.

• Education: BA in English and French (Oxford), MPhil and PhD in English (Cambridge)

His research explores the intersection of poetry, moral philosophy, and theology, focusing on how poets like Gerard Manley Hopkins, T.S. Eliot, and Geoffrey Hill engage with ethical and epistemic claims through verse. He is expanding his dissertation Form’s Philosophy into a book while initiating a new project on modernist poetics and cognitive difficulties in verse-form, analyzing poets such as Emily Dickinson, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Joan Retallack.

At Cambridge, he teaches modules including 'Lyric', 'The Ethical Imagination', and 'Practical Criticism and Critical Practice', supervising dissertations on Victorian and modernist poetry. Contact: mr810@cam.ac.uk