Rhodri Lewis

Rhodri Lewis was for many years Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, and is now Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer (with Rank of Professor) at Princeton University. He has interests in literary, cultural, and intellectual history from about 1500 to the present day, but has tended to concentrate on the first three centuries of this period in his writing. His books include Language, Mind and Nature: Artificial Languages in England from Bacon to Locke (2007), Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness (2017), and the forthcoming Shakespeare’s Tragic Art (early 2024, with any luck). At the moment, he has just embarked on the research for a biography of the great literary critic–and sometime Columbia professor–Sir Frank Kermode. Outside the academy, he writes for publications including The Times Literary Supplement, Prospect, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter as @profrhodrilewis.