Christopher Ricks

Professor Christopher Ricks is Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University and co-director of the Editorial Institute. He has taught at Boston University since 1986; he was formerly King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge. His numerous books include Essays in Appreciation (1996), Beckett's Dying Words (1993), T. S. Eliot and Prejudice (1988), and Keats and Embarassment (1974). He has edited the poems of Tennyson, Browning, and Housman and is editor of The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1987) and The Oxford Book of English Verse (1999).

Professor Ricks was the recipient of the 1990 Metcalf Cup and Prize for Excellence in Teaching at Boston University and served as N. E. H. Distinguished Teaching Professor 1994-97. He lectures and teaches in the second year of Core Humanities.

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