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Julia S. Carlson is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati, where she has held tenure since 2013. Previously, she served as an Assistant Professor at the same institution (2006–2013) and was a Visiting Fellow at DeMontfort University (2013–2014). Her research focuses on British Romanticism (1750–1850), with specialties in cartography, manuscript culture, and the intersection of print media with tactile practices. She co-edited Romantic Cartographies (Cambridge, 2020) and co-authored Interacting with Print (Chicago, 2018). She currently edits the open-access journal Romanticism on the Net and is completing a monograph on digital interactivity in Romantic-era inscription practices.
Education: Ph.D. (2006), M.A. (1998) in English from the University of Michigan; M.A. (1998) in English Literature from Bread Loaf School of English; B.A. (1993) in Humanities from Stanford University.
Research interests include the relationship between poetry and spatial practices (cartography, tactile reading), blindness and literacy in the Romantic period, and the materiality of print. Recent work explores tactile poetics, the Wordsworth scriptorium, and the role of printing technologies in shaping literary forms. Her award-winning monograph Romantic Marks and Measures (Pennsylvania, 2016) redefines Wordsworth’s engagement with print culture.
Her articles analyze topics such as tactile reading for the blind, the cartographic dimensions of The Prelude, and the prosodic innovations in Romantic-era travel guides. Collaborations with the Multigraph Collective emphasize interdisciplinary approaches to print culture.
Awards: Winner of the 2017 British Association for Romantic Studies First Book Prize for Romantic Marks and Measures.
Teaching spans undergraduate and graduate courses on Romanticism, environmental literature, and media studies. She has organized international conferences on Romanticism and co-chaired the Multigraph Collective’s research initiatives.
