Directors

Archie Burnett
Co-director Archie Burnett is known for his Oxford English Texts edition of The Poems of A.E. Housman (1997) and for a two-volume edition, also from Oxford, of The Letters of A. E. Housman (2007). He has begun work on a scholarly edition, with apparatus and commentary, of The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin for Faber & Faber. His interest in Milton, originally marked by Milton's Style: The Shorter Poems, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes (1981), is sustained in his writing the introduction to Samson Agonistes for A Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton (Duquesne University Press). He is a Professor of English and he teaches in the Core Curriculum.

Christopher Ricks
Co-director Christopher Ricks is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University, and also teaches in the Core Curriculum. He was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 2004, and is known both for his critical studies and for his editorial work. The latter includes The Poems of Tennyson (revised 1987), The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1987), Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917 by T. S. Eliot (1996), The Oxford Book of English Verse (1999), Selected Poems of James Henry (2002), and Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems (2005). In 2002 he delivered the Panizzi Lectures in Bibliography at the British Library. He is the General Editor of Poetry for Penguin Classics, and a co-editor of Essays in Criticism. He is undertaking a full critical edition of T. S. Eliot’s complete poems, to be published by Faber & Faber. With Frances Whistler he co-directs the Selected Edition of the Work of James Fitzjames Stephen.

Assistant Director & Director of Publications

Frances Whistler
Employed by the Clarendon Press (the Academic imprint of Oxford University Press, England) for more than 20 years, Frances Whistler has had a variety of editorial roles, from desk editor to commissioning editor. Her work has covered literature, cultural studies, and art publishing, with a special emphasis on scholarly editions, illustrated and reference works, bibliographies, and student books. She joined the Editorial Institute in 2004 to co-direct preparation of the James Fitzjames Stephen edition and to teach publishing-editor skills. She is available by appointment to give publishing advice to members of the University.

Lecturer

Marcia Karp
A graduate of Boston University (MA, Literary Criticism; PhD, Literary History), Marcia Karp has published her poems and translations in, among other places, Penguin Books' Catullus in English and Petrarch in English, Partisan Review, The Republic of Letters, Literary Imagination, The Guardian, Seneca Review, Agenda, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, The Warwick Review, and the Times Literary Supplement; her translations of riddles from the Exeter Book will appear in the forthcoming Contemporary Poets Translate Anglo Saxon Poems (Norton 2010). She writes reviews on poetry and on matters relating to the history of the book.

Research Professor

Marilyn Gaull
Joined the Editorial Institute in 2007 after many years of teaching (William and Mary, Temple University, New York University), scholarship, and publication (English Romanticism: The Human Context, editions such as the Longman edition of Northanger Abbey, articles, introductions, reviews and public lectures in British and American literature, intellectual history, folklore and oral performance, the history of science). As an editor, she founded The Wordsworth Circle, a large and comprehensive journal of Romantic studies, Editor’s News for the Council of Editors of Learned Journals which she helped to organize, and Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters, her most recent series for Palgrave. She brings to the Institute international experience in editing and publication across several disciplines and historical periods, project development, copyright, funding, and organizational skills for conferences, summer schools, and professional societies.

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