Thomas Pfau

Thomas Pfau is the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English, with a secondary appointment in the Divinity School at Duke University. He has published some fifty essays on literary, philosophical, and theological subjects ranging from the eighteenth through the early twentieth century. In addition to two translations of Hölderlin and Schelling, he has edited seven essay collections and special journal issues and is the author of four monographs: Wordsworth’s Profession; Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, Melancholy, 1790–1840; Minding the Modern: Intellectual Traditions, Human Agency, and Responsible Knowledge; and Incomprehensible Certainty: Metaphysics and Hermeneutics of the Image. He is in the early stages of a new book project focused on the relationship between poetry and theology from 1800 to the present.