Dr. Michael Neth
Professor

Member, Graduate Faculty

B.A., 1980, Wichita State University; M.A., 1981; Ph.D., 1990, Columbia University. (1990)

Office: PH 347; Phone/Voice Mail: 898-5836

Dr. Neth teaches courses on the British Romantic poets at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, including a course he developed on the Verbal and Visual Art of William Blake. He also taught in the Honors Program, where he developed a course on the comparative study of poetry and painting; he regularly teaches English 3020, the second part of the survey course required of all English majors. He is the Faculty Advisor for the MTSU The Great Books Interdisciplinary Minor, which he designed in 1999.

His published research has focused on the textual study of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poetry. His edition of Shelley's longest poem, the 4,800-line epic "Laon and Cythna," will be published in Volume III of "The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley" (CPPBS), forthcoming from The Johns Hopkins University Press in 2010. He will also edit two further poems by Shelley for "CPPBS." The series was recently awarded a three-year, $180,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to continue its editing of Shelley's poetry. Dr. Neth's portion of this award will enable him to travel to research libraries in England and New York to further his work.

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