Amanda Blake Davis is a writer, teacher, academic, and editor currently based in Yorkshire. Originally from the US, she has lived and taught in South Korea and across the UK.
She received her PhD in English Literature from the University of Sheffield in 2020. She has written for The Poetry Society, numerous academic journals, and scholarly collections. She is co-editor of two forthcoming books, Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum (Liverpool University Press) and Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality (Legenda).
Her primary specialism is Romantic poetry, particularly Percy Bysshe Shelley, and she has a background in Creative Writing. She co-organised the 2022 and 2024 Shelley Conference and served on the Executive of the British Association for Romantic Studies from 2019-2024. She is an editor for The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Johns Hopkins University Press). Her current work explores the significance of trees in Shelley’s poetry and manuscripts.
Her research interests include nature writing and the environmental humanities, especially the arboreal humanities, and she co-convenes the Tree Cultures Network. She has co-run public events on trees and literature, including ‘The Literary Arboretum’ with The Wordsworth Trust and ‘Tree Cultures at Kew’ with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. She is fascinated by intersections between poetry and environment, relationships between poets and readers, and Romanticism’s influence and afterlives.
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