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Biography

Natalie Tal Harries is a Research Fellow working on the AHRC funded project, The Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott’s Poetry: Engaging New Audiences at the 51cg. She was a Research Associate on the 21st Century Oxford Authors edition of the work of Percy Bysshe Shelley at the University of Sheffield, and an Early Career Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies (University of London) where she completed a project on the late Indian influences of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her current research interests are primarily focused on the influence of Platonism/Neoplatonism, Hinduism, 'out-of-the-way reading' and supernatural scholarship on Romantic poets and writers. She is also interested in Romantic life-writing, creative collaboration, and manuscript studies.

Internal Memberships

Assistant Director - Walter Scott Research Centre

Research Overview

My research is focused on late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century English literature, especially British Romantic poetry. I am particularly interested in the following aspects of Romanticism:

• Influences, reading practices and the creative process
• Creative exchange and collaboration
• Manuscript studies
• Syncretism, ancient symbolism and mythopoetics
• Folklore, superstition and fairy tales
• Metaphysical enquiry, esoteric research and poetic visions
• Nature, the sublime, and the supernatural
• Poetry as a vehicle for experimentation, exploration and transgression
• Life-Writing
• Radical ideas and social critique
• Relationship between literature, philosophy, science and religion

Funding and Grants

• National Lottery Heritage Fund - Communities of Fable project (2023)
• British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) Stephen Copley Research Award (2020)
• Friends of Coleridge Travel Bursary (2011)
• AHRC Block Grant Partnership Award (2009-2012)