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Caroline Anjali Ritchie is a Rankin Fellow in English Literature 1760-1830 at Exeter College, University of Oxford. She specializes in Romantic-era literature, visual culture, and cartography, with a focus on global poetics and small-press publishing. Her research explores intersections between literature, visual art, and mapping, including the legacy of William Blake's cartographic imagination.
Education:
- BA in Classics and English (Trinity College, Oxford)
- MA in Art History, Curatorship, and Renaissance Culture (Warburg Institute)
- PhD in English and Art History (Tate Britain and University of York)
Her current projects include analyzing global images in 18th-century literature and visual culture, particularly in works by Edward Young, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Phillis Wheatley Peters, and Blake. She is Editor of the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) Review.
Teaching: She teaches English Literature 1760-1830 (Final Honour School Paper 5) at Exeter College and offers an MSt special option paper, Globe-Gazing: World-Pictures in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Visual Culture. She also supports teaching in the Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford (WEPO).
Publications: Her monograph William Blake and the Cartographic Imagination (2025) and introductory guide William Blake (2024) reflect her interdisciplinary approach. Recent presentations include a 2022 conference paper on Local Blake and a 2021 interview with Iain Sinclair.
