Tara Lee researches 18th and 19th Century British literature, ideas, and culture. Drawing comparisons between historical and contemporary concerns around technoscientific culture, her work focuses on the relationships between literature, science, and technology around the Romantic period. An expert on William Blake, her research interests include print and visual culture, Orientalism and empire, biopolitics and the body, poetry and poetics, as well as the environmental humanities, the medical humanities, and the digital humanities.

Tara obtained her AHRC-funded DPhil in English Literature from the University of Oxford with a thesis on William Blake and Romantic-era Biology. Her monograph, Blake and Romantic Biology: Evolution, Originality, and Organic Form is contracted with Cambridge University Press. Her articles on Keats, Southey, and other Romantic-era authors can be found in such journals as European Romantic Review, Studies in Romanticism, Romanticism on the Net and The Keats-Shelley Review. She is also developing an HKRCG-funded project titled ‘Visionary Machines: Technology and the Epic in Britain, 1790-1830’, which explores how real and imaginary machines afforded thinking about revolution, utopianism, and empire in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Research interests:

• 18th and 19th Century British Literature and Culture
• Literature, Science, and Technology
• Biopolitics and the Body
• Print and Visual Culture
• Literary Theory and Poetics
• Orientalism and Empire
• Environmental Humanities and Animal Studies
• Medical Humanities
• Digital Humanities