15th May 2026, Timothy Heimlich, ‘Gothic Poetics’
‘Gothic Poetics’
Timothy Heimlich (Duke University)
15th May 2026, 4pm, Project Room, 50 George Square
Please join us on Friday 15 May to hear Timothy Heimlich (Duke University) present new work on the Gothic!
Timothy Heimlich is Assistant Professor of English. Before starting at Duke University, he earned his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley and subsequently taught at the University of Cambridge and in the Netherlands.
His teaching and research focus on eighteenth-century literature, with special interests in the formation of British imperial culture, transnational studies, and the global contexts of British Romanticism. He has published essays on these topics in venues including Studies in Romanticism, European Romantic Review, MLQ, and ELH.
His first book, ‘Wales, Romanticism, and the Making of Imperial Culture’ (2025), argues that Wales played a crucial role in literary inventions of an imperial Britishness both within Britain and abroad. His current book project explores the relationship of gothic writing and painting to the cultural legacies of imperial expansion and the European Enlightenment. Other research interests include Welsh writing in English, the fiction and especially the verse of Walter Scott, and eighteenth-century visual culture.
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