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Nicholas Halmi is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford and Margaret Candfield Fellow at University College, Oxford. He is also Associated Academic Staff in the History of Art Department and a member of the Zentrum für Klassikforschung (Klassik Stiftung Weimar). His research focuses on British and Continental literature, philosophy, and visual arts from the mid-17th to mid-19th centuries, emphasizing responses to modernity and historical consciousness. Key areas include Romanticism, historicization, aesthetics, and cross-cultural intellectual exchanges.
His academic roles include teaching literature and theory at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, supervising DPhil theses, and editing scholarly editions of Romantic-era works. Notable publications include The Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol (2007) and his Norton Critical Edition of Wordsworth (2013). He has held prestigious fellowships, including a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship for his work on Historicization, Aesthetics, and the Past.
Research Interests: Enlightenment/Romantic literature, European intellectual history, comparative literature, historicization, classical reception, and genre theory. His recent projects explore historical self-consciousness in art and literature, anti-historicist tendencies in Romantic architecture, and Spinoza's influence on English Romanticism.
Awards and Affiliations: Elected to the Zentrum für Klassikforschung (2023), served on editorial boards for Romanticism on the Net and Modern Language Quarterly, and co-edited Inventions of the Imagination: Romanticism and Beyond (2011). His work has been praised by philosophers, historians, and literary scholars alike.
Publications and Events: Authored over 50 articles/chapters, organized international seminars on historical anxiety and universal histories, and appeared in podcast interviews discussing Romantic theory. His research bridges literary criticism with philosophy, art history, and intellectual history.
