Rate My Professor William Davis

Davis's research focuses on European Romanticism, comparative Romanticism, literary theory, and the connections between philosophy and literature, with recent emphasis on Romantic Hellenism. He has published in English and German in journals including The Germanic Review, European Romantic Review, Prism(s): Integrating the Arts and Sciences in Romanticism, The Goethe Yearbook, Work Picture, and Berliner Schelling Studien. His monograph, Romanticism, Hellenism, and the Philosophy of Nature, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018 and features chapters on Friedrich Hölderlin, Goethe, Friedrich Schelling, Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, examining how Romantic valorization of Greece intertwined with natural philosophy to counter subjectivism and dualism circa 1800. Davis organized meetings of the International Conference on Romanticism in 2005 and 2013, as well as the colloquium 'Romanticism in the Mediterranean World' in Athens, Greece, in June 2017. His current project explores the rhetoric of Philhellenism, material culture, and linkages among Hellenism, literature, and art history. In 2019, the Colorado College Board of Trustees promoted him to full professor.