Christopher Catanese

Christopher Catanese 

Christopher Catanese is a doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill whose research addresses the intersection of environment and political economy in the eighteenth-century long poem, with special emphases on genre and classical reception. He has published on Romantic-era vitalist natural history, the eighteenth-century mass reading public, and his journal article on Robert Bloomfield, Wordsworth, and Romantic genre transformations won the 2016 Ralph Cohen Prize for New Literary History. He also publishes poetry and literary translations and is coeditor of the small press Golias Books.