Alexander Regier is a German-British-Colombian literary scholar. He is the William Faulkner Professor of English at Rice University.
Early life and education Regier graduated with a first-class BA in English Literature and Philosophy at Durham University in 1999. He pursued postgraduate studies at the University of Cambridge, earning an MPhil in European Literature in 2000 and a PhD in English in 2004.
Career and research From 2005 to 2009, Regier was a Research Fellow at King's College, Cambridge. He joined Rice University in 2009 as an Assistant Professor and became a full Professor in 2019. He was editor of SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 from 2011 to 2012.
In 2017, Regier was a Visiting Fellow at CRASSH, where he worked on a project concerning Anglo-German literary connections during the Enlightenment era, with a particular focus on the relationship between William Blake and Johann Georg Hamann. In 2023, he spearheaded the purchase of a functional replica of the printing press used by William Blake.
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External links Profile at Rice University