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Alexander Freer is a Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, specializing in Romanticism. He studied at the University of Warwick, where he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in English Comparative Literature, followed by an MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge. Freer joined the University of Edinburgh in 2023 after completing a research fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, and teaching at the University of East Anglia. His research focuses on poetry and prose of the Romantic period, particularly the works of William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, Letitia Landon, and others. He is exploring the intersections between literary forms and non-literary ones, such as economic forms, and questions surrounding the political dimensions of form. Freer teaches various courses, including 'Enlightenment Romanticism' and 'Reading Theory', and serves as the Director of Postgraduate Research in the Department of English and Scottish Literature. His current research interests include the economics of literature, lyric theory, and the historical context of literary criticism.
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