Taylor Schey

Taylor Schey is a literary studies scholar who works at the intersection of poetry and critical theory. A specialist in British Romanticism, he has written on a variety of subjects, from the poetics of political despair to the fascination with impasse in contemporary theory. His articles have appeared in venues such as Eighteenth-Century Fiction, ELH, MLQ, and SubStance, and he is co-editor of a special issue of Comparative Literature. 

His current book project, The Rhetoric of Racialization: British Romanticism and Everyday Antiblackness, is about the quotidian figural operations through which logics of antiblackness were insidiously consolidated in the early nineteenth century. Small parts of this project have appeared in Studies in Romanticism and Romanticism on the Net.

Schey is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He has previously taught at North Carolina State University, the University of Michigan, and Macalester College.

Banner images are from the watercolors and gouache sketches of J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851).