Kenneth R. Johnston

Kenneth R. Johnston is Ruth N. Halls Professor of English Emeritus at Indiana University, where he chaired the English department and won awards for teaching. He has also taught at Colorado, Bucharest, and Georgetown universities. "Wordsworth and 'The Recluse'" was published by Yale UP in 1984. "The Hidden Wordsworth" was awarded the 1998 Barricelli Prize for outstanding contribution to Romantic studies, and was named a Book of the Year by the New York Times, The Guardian and other papers. Johnston's adaptation of James Hogg's "Love Adventures of Mr. George Cochrane" was directed by Lady Judy Steel at the 1993 Scottish Borders Festival. In 2013, Oxford UP published "Unusual Suspects: Pitt's Reign of Alarm and the Lost Generation of the 1790s." Johnston received the Distinguished Scholar award of the Keats-Shelley Association of America in 2015. "Counterfactual Romanticism" (2019) contains his essay, "Lord Byron reads 'The Prelude.'" He has held Guggenheim, Fulbright, NEH and Mellon fellowships. He resides in Chicago and London.