Owen Finlay

Thesis title: Keats as Literary Critic: Between Idealism and Deconstruction

Supervisor: Seamus Perry

Research Interests: Romantic Poetry and Criticism; Victorian Poetry and Criticism; American Romanticism; British Aestheticism; Modernist Poetry and Criticism; the History of Criticism and Theory; Aesthetics; Theories of the Sublime; Deconstruction; Mid and Late 20th Century American Poetry (esp. John Ashbery, Charles Wright, A. R. Ammons, and Amy Clampitt); Canadian Poetry; Contemporary "alt-lit"; Film and Literature.

Please feel free to reach out if you wish to discuss any of the above topics!

Publications:

"On the Road Home." The Wallace Stevens Journal. John Hopkins University Press, Spring 2026.

"Review of Eternity in British Romantic Poetry." The Charles and Mary Lamb Journal. The Charles Lamb Society, Winter 2025.

Conference Papers:

"The Embarrassment of Self-Effacement in Keats’s Poetry.” The International Summer School of Romanticism. Ghent University, June 2025.