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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
Menasche: 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.
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.
For more on The Wordsworth Circle, please click here.
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