Eric Weiskott

Biography

Eric Weiskott

Eric Weiskott is Professor of English at Boston College. He is 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, Eric produced critical editions of two Middle English dream visions: the A version of William Langland’s Piers Plowman (University of Exeter Press, 2025) and Geoffrey Chaucer's Book of the Duchess (for the forthcoming Cambridge Chaucer project).