Alison Hickey
Contributor
Alison Hickey’s main field of research is Romanticism. Her teaching interests center on English Romantic poetry and extend both forward in time to contemporary British, Irish, and American poetry and backward to writers such as Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, Marvell, and other 17th-century authors. From time to time, she also ventures into Comparative Literature, which was her undergraduate major.
She regularly teaches Romantic and Victorian poetry, a first-year seminar titled Creating Memory, and a cross-listed English and Environmental Studies course, From “Nature Poetry” to Ecopoetics. Her recurring 300-level courses include Love, Sex, and Imagination in Romantic Poetry, Romantic Siblings, and Keats and Shelley.
Hickey’s publications include a book on Wordsworth (Impure Conceits) as well as essays, book chapters, and reviews in Studies in Romanticism, ELH, and The Cambridge History of English Poetry. For her work on literary collaboration, she has held a Bunting Institute Fellowship and received funding from the NEH.
She has two sons in their twenties. In her free time, she enjoys listening to music, playing with words, walking, bicycling, traveling to new places and revisiting old familiar ones, and singing with the Back Bay Chorale. She is also an avid consumer of audiobooks and podcasts.