Neil Fraistat

Director

Neil Fraistat, Professor of English at the University of Maryland, received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. He has published widely on the subjects of Romanticism, Textual Studies, and Digital Humanities in such journals as PMLA, JEGP, Studies in Romanticism, Text, and The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, as well as in such books at The Poem and the Book, Poems in Their Place, and The "Prometheus Unbound" Notebooks. A founder and general editor of the Romantic Circles Website, he is the coeditor of Reimagining Textuality: Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print; The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (2 vols. to date); the Norton Critical edition, Shelley’s Poetry and Prose; and an edition of Helen Maria Williams’s Letters Written in France. He currently serves on the boards of Literary & Linguistic Computing, Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth Century Electonic Scholarship (NINES), Brown’s Women Writer’s Project, Studies in Romanticism, the Keats-Shelley Journal, Romanticism on the Net, and the Dickinson Electronic Archive. He has been awarded the Society for Textual Scholarship’s biennial Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize, the Keats-Shelley Association Prize, honorable mention for the Modern Language Association’s biennial Distinguished Scholarly Edition Prize, and the Keats-Shelley Association’s Distinguished Scholar Award.