Alexander Regier, Associate Professor, Rice University Alexander Regier is Associate Professor of English at Rice University and editor of the scholarly journal Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. He is author of Fracture and Fragmentation in British Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2010), co-editor of Wordsworth's Poetic Theory (Palgrave, 2010) and has edited special journal issues on 'Mobilities' and 'Genealogies'. Dr Regier has published widely on Wordsworth, Walter Benjamin, ruins, contemporary poetry, the aesthetics of sport and other topics; his work has been supported by a number of awards, including an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers.