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Lewis Roberts is a Lector at the University of Cambridge, affiliated with Trinity College. He completed his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Studies at Magdalen College, Oxford, before earning his PhD from St John's College, Cambridge. In 2023-2024, he will serve as the Jane Eliza Procter Fellow at Princeton University. His work lies at the intersection of poetics, philosophy of mind, and ethics, exploring how seemingly trivial features of artworks relate to larger philosophical questions about value and belief. He is currently engaged in writing a book titled 'Ends Line Passion History', which investigates the significance of the poetic line in ethical and historical contexts. His teaching covers various literary topics from 1500 to the present and includes papers on Lyric, The Ethical Imagination, and Early-Modern Drama. He is also involved in outreach efforts to improve access to humanities education, particularly in London and Yorkshire, and runs programs such as the 'Literature' strand of Trinity's Humanities Residential. He supervises dissertations on topics aligned with his research interests.
University of Cambridge • Cambridge, England
Engaged in teaching and research in the field of English literature.
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