Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol

Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Trinity University, where she teaches courses in nineteenth-century poetry and fiction. She is the author of Poetics of Luxury in the Nineteenth Century: Keats, Tennyson, and Hopkins (Ashgate 2011), and her book-length treatment of the intersection of nineteenth-century poetry and ballet, The Pointe of the Pen: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Balletic Imagination (Liverpool, 2021). Her most recent project, The Literary Taylor Swift: Songwriting and Intertextuality (2024, co-edited with Anastasia Klimchynskaya), explores the cultural phenomenon that is Taylor Swift and her musical career. Tontiplaphol’s essays have appeared in European Romantic Review, The Byron Journal, The Keats Letters Project, and other venues.