Eric Weiskott

About Eric Weiskott

I teach and write about poetry and poetics. I am the author most recently of the scholarly monograph Unheard Melodies: Apophatic Poetics and Literary Reading (Fordham University Press, forthcoming) and the poetry book Cycle of Dreams (punctum books, 2024). Both books juxtapose fourteenth- and twenty-first-century poetries. As a textual editor, I produced critical editions of three Middle English dream visions: the A version of William Langland’s Piers Plowman (University of Exeter Press, 2025), Geoffrey Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess (for the forthcoming Cambridge Chaucer project), and Death and Life (in preparation for Medieval Institute Publications). I edit the Yearbook of Langland Studies with Alastair Bennett and Katharine Breen. My poems appear in Cincinnati Review, Fence, Inverted Syntax, and Texas Review. After five years directing graduate programs in English at Boston College, I now direct the undergraduate Honors program. Among the courses I regularly teach are “Chaucer and Gower,” “Game of Thrones: Medieval English Political Poetry,” “Studies in Poetry,” and “Introduction to Creative Writing.” I live in Brookline, Massachusetts with my wife and our two children.

Experience

1. Professor of English

   Boston College

   Feb 2022 — Present

Education

• Yale University

  PhD, English Language and Literature

  2009 — 2014

• Wesleyan University

  BA, English, Classical Civilization

  2005 — 2009

Skills

• Qualitative Research
• Data Analysis
• Literature
• Poetry
• Creative Writing
• Research
• Editing
• Public Speaking
• Social Media
• Teaching
• Nonprofits
• Higher Education
• Writing
• Blogging
• Grant Writing