Taylor Schey

Taylor Schey is lecturer of English at the University of Michigan. A specialist in eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature, literary theory, and poetry and poetics, he has articles published or forthcoming in ELH, MLQ, Studies in Romanticism, Comparative Literature, and SubStance. He is currently working on two book projects, the first of which is titled After Truth: British Romanticism and Skeptical Praxis, and the second of which is provisionally titled Hope is None: The Poetics of Political Despair. He is also co-editor (with Jan Mieszkowski) of a forthcoming special issue of Comparative Literature titled “The Point of Impasse.” Before coming to the University of Michigan, he taught at Macalester College.

Education

Ph.D., Emory University, 2015

Selected Publications

"Impasse? What Impasse? Berlant, de Man, and the Intolerable Present." Comparative Literature 72.2 (forthcoming). 

"Romanticism and the Poetics of Political Despair." ELH 86.4 (2019): 967-995.

"Skeptical Ignorance: Hume, Shelley, and the Mystery of 'Mont Blanc.'" MLQ 79.1 (2018): 53-80.

"Limited Analogies: Reading Relations in Wordsworth’s The Borderers." Studies in Romanticism 56.2 (2017): 177-201.

"Ritual Remembrance: Freud’s Primal Theory of Collective Memory." SubStance 42.1 (2013): 102-119.

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