Duncan Wu (born November 3, 1961, Woking, Surrey) is a British academic and biographer.
From 2000-2008, he was Professor of English Language and Literature at St Catherine's College, University of Oxford, England. He is now a Professor in the English Department at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Wu joined St Catherine's in 2000 as University Lecturer, and in 2003 became Professor of English Language and Literature. Before that, he was Rea...
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Duncan Wu (born November 3, 1961, Woking, Surrey) is a British academic and biographer.
From 2000-2008, he was Professor of English Language and Literature at St Catherine's College, University of Oxford, England. He is now a Professor in the English Department at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Wu joined St Catherine's in 2000 as University Lecturer, and in 2003 became Professor of English Language and Literature. Before that, he was Reader and then Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow, 1995–2000, and before that he was a Research Fellow of the British Academy, 1991-4.
His first book, Wordsworth's reading 1770-1799, was published in 1993. His popular textbook, Romanticism: An Anthology, went to a third edition in 2005. Besides several other books about Wordsworth, he has written about contemporary British drama, the fiction of William S. Burroughs, and the non-fiction of Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt. He worked with Alasdair Gray on his Book of...
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