bio

George H. Gilpin received his Ph.D. from Rice University and his A.B. from Princeton University.  His book, Indian Renaissance:  British Romantic Art and the Prospect of India (Ashgate, 2006; Routledge, 2016), co-authored with Hermione de Almeida, received a Paul Mellon Centre Publication Grant in 2004 and was awarded the 2007 Book Prize of the Association of Historians of British Art. 

George Gilpin is also the author of The Art of Contemporary English Culture (Macmillan and St. Martin’s, 1991) and The Strategy of Joy:  An Essay on the Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (University of Salzburg, 1972); the editor of Critical Essays on William Wordsworth (G. K. Hall, 1990) and co-editor, with Hermione de Almeida, of the 1963 novel by Patricia Avis, Playing the Harlot; or, Mostly Coffee (Little Brown/Virago, 1996).  His publications include “1898-1945:  Hardy to Auden” in The Columbia History of British Poetry (Columbia University Press, 1993), “Patricia Avis and Philip Larkin” in Philip Larkin:  New Larkins for Old  (Macmillan, 1999), “William Blake and the World’s Body of Science,” Studies in Romanticism (2004); other essays and reviews on Romantic and contemporary writers have appeared in The Wordsworth Circle, Modern Philology, British Association for Romantic Studies Bulletin and Review, Faulkner Studies, The Eight­eenth Century:  A Current Bibliography, and Rare Books & Manuscripts Librarianship.  He is a contributor to The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature (Blackwell, 2012).

At the University of Tulsa, George Gilpin was Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Scholar-in-Residence of McFarlin Library Special Collections where he was responsible for the acquisition of such collections as the “life” archive of V. S. Naipaul (awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001), the archive of the Irish novelist William Trevor, the Robert Easson Library of William Blake, the archive of the poet Richard Murphy and the novelist Patricia Avis, and the archive of the biographer Brenda Maddox.  He founded, with Hermione de Almeida, the McFarlin Fellows, a donor organization in support of library special collections. At the University of Miami, he was Vice Provost and Associate Vice President for Academic Administration and Planning.  He has served as a consultant to the U. S. Department of Energy, Chevron Corporation, Gulf Universities Research Consortium, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

George Gilpin has been an invited speaker at meetings of the First International Conference on Philip Larkin, Hull (United Kingdom), the International Association of University Professors of English in Lausanne (Switzerland), Bamberg (Germany), York (United Kingdom), and Vancouver (Canada), and at meetings of the Modern Language Association in Chicago New York, and Atlanta.   He is a member of the Modern Language Association, College Art Association, and the Keats-Shelley Association.  He serves on the Advisory Board for the Modernist Journals Project of Brown University and the University of Tulsa.

George Gilpin has taught in the fields of British Romantic and eighteenth-century literature and British contemporary literature and culture at Vanderbilt University, The University of Miami, and The University of Tulsa.  He is currently Professor Emeritus of English at The University of Tulsa.

Contact: gilpindealmeida@gmail.com

Hermione de Almeida: https://sites.google.com/site/hermionedealmeida/

William de Almeida Gilpin: http://williamgilpin.github.io/