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Prof Nicholas Roe

Bishop Wardlaw Professor

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2642

Email

nhr@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 204

Location

Kennedy Hall

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Biography

Nicholas Roe is Wardlaw Professor of English Literature. He is the author of critically acclaimed biographies and studies includingÌý,Ìý, andÌý. He was born inÌý England's West Country, and lived for many years on the edge of Dartmoor at Yelverton and Clearbrook. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe (1967-74), and Trinity College, Oxford (1975-82), before joining the English Department at Queen's University, Belfast (1982-5). He joined the School of English at St ÌÇÐÄlogo University in September 1985 and soon afterwards founded the St ÌÇÐÄlogo Poetry Festival (now ‘StAnza’). In 1995 he was a co-founder of the scholarly journal Romanticism, which he continues to edit, now approaching its thirtieth anniversary. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, an Honorary Fellow of the English Association, and a Lifetime Member of the Japan Association for English Romanticism. In 2021 he was appointed Honorary Professor of English at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, People’s Republic of China. Over the years he has given visiting lectures at numerous UK universities, and more widely in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Malta, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, and the US. He was a Trustee of Ìý1997-2015 and ofÌýÌý2010-2017. He is Chair ofÌý, and a trustee ofÌý. His two most recently published Ìýbooks are an edited collection,Ìý(2017) and a revised and updated second edition of (1988; second edition 2018). His most recent book isÌýJohn Keats and the Perils of Posterity (2025) and he is currently editing a new edition of William Wordsworth's 1850ÌýPrelude for the Oxford World's Classics Series.

Research areas

My research interests are in Romantic literature, particularly Leigh Hunt, John Keats and their circle;Ìý Samuel Taylor Coleridge;Ìý Percy Bysshe Shelley;Ìý William Wordsworth. My main writing activities are in the field of literary biography.

Selected publications

• Roe, N., 1 Sept 2025, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 352 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Garner, K. L. & Roe, N. H., 24 Mar 2022, John Keats and romantic Scotland. Garner, K. & Roe, N. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. xvii-xxvi 10 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Garner, K. (Editor) & Roe, N. (Editor), 24 Mar 2022, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 225 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Anthology

• Roe, N. H., 24 Mar 2022, John Keats and romantic Scotland. Garner, K. & Roe, N. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 158-173 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Roe, N., 13 Mar 2021, In: The Lancet. 397, 10278, p. 962-963 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter

• Open access
  Roe, N., 21 Sept 2018, Keats’s Places. Turley, R. M. (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 225-243

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Roe, N., 29 Nov 2018, 2nd ed. Oxford : Oxford University Press. 323 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Open access
  Roe, N., Sept 2017, In: Keats-Shelley Review. 31, 2, p. 120-135 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Roe, N., 11 Jul 2017, In: Essays in Criticism. 67, 3, p. 237-258 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Roe, N. H. & Ghosh, H., Jun 2017, John Keats in context. O'Neill, M. (ed.). Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, p. 19-27 9 p. (Literature in context).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

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