Author Profiles

I am an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toledo. Prior to arriving in Toledo, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Boston University’s Kilachand Honors College and held teaching positions at Ohio State and UT-Austin. I research and teach global Anglophone literature with a focus on 18th- and 19th-century poetics and aesthetics. My first book project, Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation, identifies a new mode of cultural production, what I deem a “poetics of orientation,” in nineteenth-century Romantic literature. This “poetics of orientation” roots the self-formation of the poetic subject in forms of cultural difference. In addition to nineteenth-century topics, I also work on global Asian culture and multiethnic U.S. literature. My next book project, The Yellow Nineteenth Century, traces Asian North American culture through print culture and newspapers in the postbellum period. My research has been supported by the NEH, the American Antiquarian Society, the Boston Athenaeum, the Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, and others. I have published work in Essays in Romanticism, LA Review of Books, American Periodicals, Pleiades: Literature in Context, The Keats-Shelley Review, The Keats-Shelley Journal, Shondaland, The Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies, and elsewhere. A poet as well as a literary critic, my award-winning debut book of poems, Body Facts, was released by Diode Editions on June 15, 2021.

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Bob King is a Professor of English at Kent State University at Stark & has taught at KSU for 26 years, earning multiple teaching distinctions. He holds degrees from Loyola University Chicago & Indiana University (MFA, poetry), where he was Editor of Indiana Review. His first poetry collection, And & And, is now available (August 30, 2024), and his second poetry collection, And/Or, will be available in September 2025. Both titles are being published by Finishing Line Press. He’s a former recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship and part of a team that won a 2023-2024 National Endowment for the Arts/Arts Midwest Big Read Communities Grant. In 2023 editors from three journals nominated his poems for a Pushcart Prize: The Hooghly Review, LEON Literary Review, and Paddler Press. And two editors nominated his poems for Best of the Net Anthology 2024: Blue Flame Review and The Gorko Gazette. Other past poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Narrative Magazine, Olney Magazine, Erato Magazine, Ink Sweat & Tears, Full House Literary, Allium: a Journal of Poetry & Prose, Muleskinner, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Northwest Review, Quarter After Eight, and Green Mountains Review, among dozens of others. He lives in Fairview Park, Ohio, with his wife & daughters.