Mark Sandy

Mark Sandy is Professor in the Department of English Studies at Durham University. He has published extensively on Romantic poetry and its legacies, including the monographs Poetics of Self and Form in Keats and Shelley (Ashgate, 2005) and Romanticism, Memory, and Mourning (Ashgate, 2013; reprinted by Routledge, 2019). He has also curated a series of edited collections on Romantic echoes from the nineteenth century to the present day, decadence, Venice and, most recently, the spectral (Ghostly Encounters: Cultural and Imaginary Representations of the Spectral from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (Routledge, 2021), co-edited with Stefano Cracolici). He served as the editor of The Review for the British Association of Romantic Studies from 2017-2024. He held a three-month Research Fellowship at the Armstrong Browning Library (Baylor University, Texas) during spring 2022. His latest monograph, Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism: Aesthetics, Subjectivity and the Environment,  was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2021 and issued in paperback in 2023. He is currently co-editing a four-volume set on Loss, Memory, and Mourning (contracted with Routledge for 2024) and researching a book-length study, provisionally, titled Spectral Presences in Romantic and Victorian Poetry: From Wordsworth to the Brownings.