Professor Ian Balfour
York University, Toronto
Ian Balfour is a professor of English and of Social & Political Thought at York University in Toronto. His teaching and research interests include Romantic poetry and prose, contemporary theory and criticism, and 18th-century literature and philosophy. He is the author of Northrop Frye (1988), The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy (2002) and of essays on the Romantics (Wordsworth, Blake, Godwin, Inchbald), Walter Benjamin, Paul de Man, and on numerous topics in popular culture. He recently co-edited with Atom Egoyan, Subtitles: On the Foreignness of Film, and with Eduardo Cadava, And justice For All?: The Claims of Human Rights. He has taught at Stanford, the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurtan Main, and Williams College, among others. In 2005-06 was a Fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. He is currently completing a book on The Language of the Sublime.
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