Judith Pascoe, the George Mills Harper Professor of English at Florida State University, has received the 2025 Distinguished Scholar Award from the Keats-Shelley Association of America in honor of her career-long scholarly excellence in Romantic-era British literature and culture.
Throughout her career, Dr. Pascoe has studied eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, with a particular focus on collecting history and theory, theatre and performance studies, digital humanities, and voice recording. She is the author of four books, including her most recent monograph, On the Bullet Train With Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights in Japan (University of Michigan Press, 2017), which she wrote while on a Guggenheim Fellowship in Japan. She is currently working on a new book, Twinkle, Twinkle: Female Literary Ambition, Male Genius, and the Most Famous Poet You’ve Never Heard Of, which spotlights British author and poet Jane Taylor.
Dr. Pascoe holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, a master’s degree in creative writing from Syracuse University in New York, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania.