Thomas Keymer

Thomas Keymer is Chancellor Henry N. R. Jackman University Professor of English at the University of Toronto, where he is a Senior Fellow of Massey College and a Senior Member of University College. Born in London, he studied at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, under the direction of J. H. Prynne, and was later Research Fellow and Quatercentenary Visiting Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Before moving to Toronto with his family in 2006, he taught for six years at Royal Holloway, University of London, and for ten years at St Anne’s College, Oxford, where he remains a Supernumerary Fellow. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Royal Historical Society, and the English Association, and has also held fellowships with the Leverhulme Trust, the Guggenheim Foundation, and All Souls College, Oxford. He works mainly on Restoration, eighteenth-century, and Romantic-era British and Irish literature, with special focus on narrative and the novel; book history and print culture; literature, politics, and national identities; literature and law; life-writing and subjectivity; theories of intertextuality, influence and reception; the theory and practice of textual editing. Between 2013 and 2017 he directed U of T’s Graduate Program in Book History, and he currently serves as General Editor of the Review of English Studies (OUP) and co-General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of Samuel Richardson.