Laurence S. Lockridge

Laurence Lockridge is a Professor of English at NYU in Manhattan. The second of four children of novelist Ross Lockridge, author of Raintree County, he grew up in Bloomington, Indiana. He received his B.A. (1964) from Indiana University; and his M.A. (1968) and his Ph.D. (1969), both in English and American literature, from Harvard.

He taught at Harvard, Rutgers, and Northwestern before moving to New York City in 1978. His areas of teaching and research have included British Romanticism, the history of critical theory, literature and philosophy, and the theory and practice of biography. Two books, Coleridge the Moralist and The Ethics of Romanticism, reflect his interest in critical ethics. Shade of the Raintree, a biography of his father, received the MidAmerica Award in 1998. He is the recipient of Danforth, Woodrow Wilson, NEH, and Guggenheim fellowships, and in 2008 received the NYU Golden Dozen Award for excellence in teaching.

He is a member of the New York Institute for the Humanities; the PEN American Center; the American Association of Suicidology; the Authors' Guild; the Manuscript Society; the New York Institute for the Humanities; the Modern Language Association, the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature; and the Biography Seminar.

In addition to four books, he has published the following articles:

• "Explaining Coleridge's Explanation: Toward a Practical Methodology for Coleridge Studies," in Reading Coleridge, ed. Walter Crawford (Cornell University Press, 1979), 23-55.
  

• "Biography and Enigma," in Biography and Source Studies, vol. III (AMSPress, 1998), 143-73.
  

• "The Ethics of Biography and Autobiography," in Critical Ethics, ed. D. Rainsford, T. Woods (Macmillan and St. Martin's, 1998), 125-40.
  

• "Tracking the Political Keats," review of Andrew Motion's biography, Keats. Partisan Review (3, 1999), 515-19.
  

• Review of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Opus Maximum," ed. T. McFarland. The Wordsworth Circle (Fall, 2002), 132-34.

  (bio adapted from the New York University Dept. of English Faculty Profile)