Professor Julia S. Carlson
Julia S. Carlson is Associate Professor of English and faculty member in the School of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Cincinnati. Her research emphasizes the conditions of Romantic literary production, circulation, and reception, including the cartographic, prosodic, and typographic contexts of William Wordsworth’s poetry (Romantic Marks and Measures: Wordsworth’s Poetry in Fields of Print); the invention of printing and mapping for the blind (‘Tangible Burns’, ‘Carto-tactual Subjects: Promoting the Education of the Blind in Romantic-era France and Britain’); poetic transcription and preservation (‘“Save them Alive”: The Wordsworth Scriptorium and the Encoding of Poetic Re/Production in the Dream of the Arab,’); and diagrammatic visualizations of prosodic and historical time (‘Historical Poetics, Poetics of History’).
She is currently co-editing The Collected Letters of Thomas Poole and his Circle (Routledge 2028) which will present fully annotated texts of both sides of the correspondence of a circle of friends who revolutionized literature and science and influenced political culture; one correspondent was the anti-slavery campaigner Thomas Clarkson, whose use of correspondence in that campaign is the subject of a chapter for a separate project. She is also completing a monograph, to be titled ‘Reading with the Hands’, which explores the history of accessible media forms and technologies—literary, geographic, and historical. From 2018-2025, she was co-editor of the online, open-access journal Romanticism on the Net.
Tim Fulford, Julia Carlson’s husband, is a Professor Emeritus at De Montfort University and formerly a Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge. A literary scholar, he took his PhD from Cambridge in 1988 and has since published many books on Romantic-era writers including Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey and the renowned chemist Humphry Davy. He’s currently collaborating with Julia on an edition of the correspondence of Coleridge’s friend Tom Poole.
Select publications
- ‘Historical Poetics, Poetics of History: Priestley’s Time Charts and the Visualization of Meter’, The Wordsworth Circle, vol. 52, no. 1, 2021, pp. 1-33
- ‘Tangible Burns’, The Unfinished Book, edited by Alexandra Gillespie and Deidre Lynch (Oxford University Press 2021), pp. 121-35
- Romantic Cartographies: Literature, Culture, Mapping, 1789-1832, edited by Sally Bushell, Julia S. Carlson, and Damian Walford Davies (Cambridge University Press 2020)
- ‘Carto-tactual Subjects: Promoting the Education of the Blind in Romantic-era France and Britain’, Romantic Cartographies: Literature, Culture, Mapping, 1789-1832, edited by Sally Bushell, Julia S. Carlson, and Damian Walford Davies (Cambridge University Press 2020), pp. 171-94
- Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print Saturation (University of Chicago Press 2018). A collaborative project authored by the twenty-two members of the Multigraph Collective
- ‘“Save them Alive”: The Wordsworth Scriptorium and the Encoding of Poetic Re/Production in the Dream of the Arab’, Romanticizing Historical Poetics: Voice, Lyric, Rhythm, Address, a special issue of Essays in Romanticism, edited by Julia S. Carlson, Ewan Jones, and David Ruderman, vol. 25, no. 1, 2018, pp. 65-83
- ‘“With gentle hand / Touch——”: The “Horrid Blank of Nature” and the New Feel of Reading’, European Romantic Review, vol. 28, no.3, 2017, pp. 279-88
- Romantic Marks and Measures: Wordsworth’s Poetry in Fields of Print (University of Pennsylvania Press 2016)
Select awards
- 2025-26 – Lewis Walpole Library Fellowship
- 2025-26 – Bodleian Library Visiting Fellowship
- 2024 – Boyce Teaching Award, Department of English, University of Cincinnati
- 2017 – British Association for Romantic Studies First Book Prize, for Romantic Marks and Measures: Wordsworth’s Poetry in Fields of Print (University of Pennsylvania Press 2016)
