Overview
Timothy Heimlich is Assistant Professor of English. Before coming to Duke, he earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley and subsequently taught at the University of Cambridge (UK) and in the Netherlands. His teaching and research focus on the literature of the Romantic period, with special interests in the formation of British imperial culture, transnational studies, and gothic. He has published essays on these topics in venues including Studies in Romanticism, European Romantic Review, MLQ, and ELH.
His first book, Wales, Romanticism, and the Making of Imperial Culture (University of Cambridge Press, 2025), argues that Wales played a crucial role in literary inventions of an imperial Britishness both within Britain and abroad. His current book project explores the relationship of gothic writing to the cultural and theoretical legacies of the Enlightenment. Other research interests include Welsh writing in English, the fiction and especially the verse of Walter Scott, and historical poetics.
Office Hours
Fall '26 Semester:
Tuesdays 1:00 -3:00 PM (303I Allen)