Taylor Schey

Taylor Schey (he/him) is lecturer of English at the University of Michigan. A specialist in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, critical theory, and poetry and poetics, he has articles published in ELH, MLQ, Studies in Romanticism, and SubStance, among other journals, and is co-editor of a recent special issue of Comparative Literature. His current book project, Hope is None: Race and the Poetics of Political Despair, explores the historical relation between the policing of political feelings and technologies of racialization. Before coming to the University of Michigan, he taught in the English Department at Macalester College.