Jason R. Rudy

Jason R. Rudy is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. A noted scholar of Victorian poetry, Rudy is the author of the ambitious and widely reviewed Electric Meters: Victorian Physiological Poetics. His second monograph, Imagined Homelands: British Poetry in the Colonies, was published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 2017. He has been the recipient of a 2010-11 National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship and a 2014 research fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. Rudy received his Ph.D. in English from Rutgers University and his B.A. from Princeton University.
He is the first cousin of professional wrestler Trent Barreta.

Selected publications

"Settled: Dorrit Down Under." Nineteenth-Century Literature 72.1, 184-206.
"Floating Worlds: Émigré Poetry and British Culture." ELH, 325-50.
Victorian Cosmopolitanisms. Edited and introduced with Tanya Agathocleous, Hunter College
Victorian Literature and Culture
“Hemans' Passion.” Studies in Romanticism 45, 543-62.
“Rapturous Forms: Mathilde Blind's Darwinian Poetics.” Victorian Literature and Culture 34,, 443-59
Spasmodic Poetry and Poetics. Edited and introduced with Charles LaPorte, U of Washington
Victorian Poetry 42
“Rhythmic Intimacy, Spasmodic Epistemology.” Victorian Poetry 42, Winter 2004, 451-72 <3
“On Cultural Neoformalism, Spasmodic Poetry, and the Victorian Ballad.” Victorian Poetry 41, Winter 2003, 590-96