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Michael Edson is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English at the University of Wyoming. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Delaware (2011). His research focuses on eighteenth-century British literature, including poetry, satire, printed notes, and marginalia. He employs methodologies such as the sociology of reading, manuscript study, and book history. Current projects explore uncertainty in satirical reading practices. He teaches courses like Eighteenth-Century Novel, Satire and Memory, and Histories of Reading. Edson serves as Associate Editor of Eighteenth-Century Life (Duke UP). His recent publications examine themes such as retirement in literature, annotation practices, and the cultural memory of reading. His work bridges literary analysis with historical and materialist approaches to textuality.
Education: Ph.D., English, University of Delaware (2011).
Research Interests: Restoration/18th-century British literature, satire, manuscript studies, book history, reading practices, cultural memory, and annotation. He explores how texts interact with historical readers through marginalia, editorial choices, and sociocultural contexts.
Publications: Over 14 articles and books, including Annotation in Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Lehigh UP, 2017) and contributions to Eighteenth-Century Life, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, and others. Recent work addresses satire’s role in gossip, the labor of reading in poetry, and manuscript notations’ cultural significance.
