James Vigus

Dr. James Vigus is a Senior Lecturer in Romanticism at Queen Mary University of London’s School of English and Drama. He holds a BA, MPhil, and PhD from the University of Cambridge, with a specialization in Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Anglo-German intellectual exchange. His academic career includes postdoctoral research in Germany at Friedrich Schiller University (Jena) and Ludwig Maximilian University (Munich) before joining Queen Mary in 2012. He served as a 2021–22 fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study.

Research interests center on British and European Romantic literature, philosophy, and religion, particularly the reception of German thought in Britain. He co-edits the Henry Crabb Robinson Project, preparing a critical edition of Robinson’s Reminiscences for Oxford University Press. Key works include Platonic Coleridge (2009) and edited collections like Symbol and Intuition (2013). His interdisciplinary projects address travel literature, aesthetics, and cultural transfers between Britain and Germany around 1800.

Teaching includes undergraduate courses on Romanticism, Jane Austen, and travel literature, as well as postgraduate modules on international Romanticism. He has supervised doctoral research on topics ranging from 18th-century booksellers to phenomenological studies of Coleridge’s thought. Public engagement includes lectures on Henry Crabb Robinson’s life and contributions to European intellectual history.