Professor
BA, MA (Western), PhD (Toronto)
Contact
Office: Room 2124 Chrysler Hall North
Phone: 519‑253‑3000 x2324
Douglas.Kneale@uwindsor.ca
Biography
Douglas Kneale is currently Professor of English at the University of Windsor. He previously held the positions of Provost and Interim President of the University of Windsor, Dean of Humanities at Brock University, and Chair of English at Western University. After completing his PhD at the University of Toronto, he held a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University and a Folger Shakespeare Library fellowship in Washington, DC.
His research interests span English Romanticism, literary history, critical theory, psychoanalysis, and rhetoric. Author of Monumental Writing: Aspects of Rhetoric in Wordsworth’s Poetry and Romantic Aversions: Aftermaths of Classicism in Wordsworth and Coleridge, and editor of The Mind in Creation: Essays on English Romantic Literature in Honour of Ross G. Woodman, his essays and reviews have appeared in PMLA, ELH, Studies in Romanticism, Modern Philology, ELN, Ariel, English Studies in Canada, The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, Psychoanalytic Books, University of Toronto Quarterly, European Romantic Review, Journal of Contemporary Thought, Criticism, Review of English Studies, and elsewhere. Since 2022 he has presented his research at conferences in the UK, the US, Italy, France, and New Zealand. He is in the process of collecting his thoughts for another book, tentatively entitled Common Humanities, that draws on his academic and administrative experiences in relation to culture and the university today.