Alan Richardson holds degrees in English from Princeton University and Harvard University. Specializing in Romantic literature and culture, he has focused research on gender, childhood and education, race and colonialism, and scientific psychology. Over fifteen years, he has explored connections between literary studies and cognitive sciences. His published works include Literature, Education, and Romanticism: Reading as Social Practice (1994), British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind (2001), and The Neural Sublime: Cognitive Theories and Romantic Texts (2011). He has co-edited special issues and collections addressing Romanticism, slavery, and imperial culture, plus approximately fifty journal articles and book essays. His honors encompass a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Keats-Shelley Association Distinguished Scholar Award, American Conference on Romanticism book prize, and Alpha Sigma Nu National Jesuit Book Award. Current research examines literary and scientific conceptions of imagination from the Romantic era to the present.
