Lindsey Eckert

Lindsey Eckert is the Timothy Gannon Associate Professor of English at Florida State University (FSU), affiliated with the History of Text Technologies (HoTT) program. Her research bridges Romanticism, book history, and digital humanities, focusing on how technological changes in print culture shaped 18th- and 19th-century British literature.

She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Toronto (Collaborative Program in Book History and Print Culture), an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge, and a B.A. from Kenyon College. Her book The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic Readers (2022) explores readers’ emotional connections to authors, earning recognition as a BAARS First Book Prize runner-up.

Her current research examines the commercialization of bookbinding in the Romantic era, supported by fellowships from the NEH and the Huntington Library. She teaches courses like Romanticism and the Birth of Celebrity, emphasizing how historical text technologies intersect with contemporary debates about authorship and media.

Dr. Eckert’s work appears in journals such as ELH, Keats-Shelley Journal, and Digital Humanities Quarterly. She co-edited a special issue on Romanticism and Technology for Romantic Circles and has collaborated on digital projects like The Almanac Archive.

Awarded FSU’s Developing Scholar Award (2024), she is committed to innovative pedagogy, receiving the NASSR Pedagogy Prize for her teaching approaches to material textuality and literary history.