British and Romantic Victorian Cultures

Terence Hoagwood
Professor of English and Film
Texas A&M University


Terence Hoagwood teaches courses in film, postmodernism, Romantic-period literature, Victorian literature, and poetry-writing. Hoagwood taught previously at Vassar College, University of Maryland, American University, Penn State University, and West Virginia University where he was the Benedum Distinguished Scholar in Arts and Humanities. He has also been a Residential Fellow at the Yale Center for British Art.

Hoagwood's publications include Prophecy and the Philosophy of Mind: Traditions of Blake and Shelley (1985), Skepticism and Ideology: Shelley's Political Prose and Its Philosophical Context from Bacon to Marx (1988), Secret Affinities (1989), Byron's Dialectic: Skepticism and the Critique of Culture (1993), A. E. Housman Revisited (1994), Politics, Philosophy and the Production of Romantic Texts (1996--designated a Choice Outstanding Book of the Year), and "Colour'd Shadows": Contexts in Publishing, Printing, and Reading Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers (with Kathryn Ledbetter, 2005).

Hoagwood is also the editor of the scholarly hypertext L.E.L.’s “Verses” and “The Keepsake for 1829" (with Kathryn Ledbetter and with technical editor Martin Jacobsen) on the Romantic Circles site http://www.inform.umd.edu/RC/rc.html.

Hoagwood has also edited fifteen volumes of previously rare literature from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including Charlotte Smith's "Beachy Head and Other Poems", Mary Robinson's "Sappho and Phaon" (with Rebecca Jackson), Violet Fane's "Denzil Place" (with Nicole Stewart), Emily Pfeiffer's "Songs and Sonnets" (with Cody Fife), Fisher's Drawing-Room Scrapbook for 1836 (with Gina Opdycke), and Mary Hays's "The Victim of Prejudice."

Hoagwood's articles and essays appear in scholarly journals and in collections published by Cambridge University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, and other scholarly presses: he has written about numerous authors, texts, paintings, engravings, and films. His current projects include a book on the theory and practice of film adaptation and another on music and poetry in the early nineteenth century.