Dr Steph Codsi

I work on radical literature of the 1790s, specifically on surveillance and the spy figure. I am currently writing a book on this subject, which is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press in 2026. My doctoral degree was on the poetry of William Blake, and on the process of 'self-annihilation' through creative labour. I have a long-standing interest in radical Romanticisms, and on Gothic literature in the late 18th to early 19th centuries. I have written work on Blake and the Gothic, Blake and eighteenth-century theology, and edited a collection of essays on Doris Lessing. More details of these publications can be found on my Orcid profile. I run a research seminar series called Interdisciplinary Romanticisms, for Early-Career Researchers and Postgraduates. This group, which ran in 2023-4, and which will be relaunched in 2026, will bring together researchers in Romanticism from across the School of Humanities.