Alexander Regier

Alexander Regier
Citizenship	German, British and Colombian
Academic background
Alma mater	Durham University (BA) University of Cambridge (MPhil, PhD)
Academic work
Institutions	King's College, Cambridge Rice University
Website	profiles.rice.edu/faculty/alexander-regier

Alexander Regier is a German-British-Colombian literary scholar. He is the William Faulkner Professor of English at Rice University.

Early life and education

Regier graduated with a first-class BA in English Literature and Philosophy at Durham University in 1999. He pursued postgraduate studies at the University of Cambridge, earning an MPhil in European Literature in 2000 and a PhD in English in 2004.

Career and research

From 2005 to 2009, Regier was a Research Fellow at King's College, Cambridge. He joined Rice University in 2009 as an Assistant Professor and became a full Professor in 2019. He was editor of SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 from 2011 to 2012.

In 2017, Regier was a Visiting Fellow at CRASSH, where he worked on a project concerning Anglo-German literary connections during the Enlightenment era, with a particular focus on the relationship between William Blake and Johann Georg Hamann. In 2023, he spearheaded the purchase of a functional replica of the printing press used by William Blake.

Publications

• Regier, Alexander; Uhlig, Stefan H. (2010). Wordsworth’s Poetic Theory: Knowledge, Language, Experience. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0230525443.
• Regier, Alexander (2010). Fracture and Fragmentation in British Romanticism. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107411777.
• Regier, Alexander (2018). Exorbitant Enlightenment: Blake, Hamann, and Anglo-German Constellations. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198827122.

External links

• Profile at Rice University