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Alexander Freer is a Lecturer in the Department of English and Scottish Literature at the University of Edinburgh, where he focuses on Romanticism. Holding degrees from the University of Warwick (BA in English Comparative Literature) and the University of Cambridge (MPhil and PhD in English), he began his tenure at Edinburgh in 2023 after a research fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge. Freer has taught at the University of East Anglia and aims to bridge the gap between literary aesthetics and broader cultural theories. His recent research interests include Romantic period poetry and prose, particularly the works of William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, and Letitia Landon, as well as literary social theory and the relationships between economic and literary forms. He directs postgraduate research in the department and supervises PhD projects in poetry, aesthetics, and interdisciplinary studies that engage with ethical and phenomenological questions pertaining to literature.
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