Ian D Copestake

Ian D. Copestake (1969) was born on the Wirral and graduated from Warwick University in 1991 with a BA Hons degree in English and American literature. He completed an MA in American Literature at University of Leeds (1992-1993) and later received a PhD at the University of Leeds (1993-2000). His thesis subject was the poetry of William Carlos Williams (twentieth-century American poetry). He is a research fellow in American literature at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt. The...See more

Ian D. Copestake (1969) was born on the Wirral and graduated from Warwick University in 1991 with a BA Hons degree in English and American literature. He completed an MA in American Literature at University of Leeds (1992-1993) and later received a PhD at the University of Leeds (1993-2000). His thesis subject was the poetry of William Carlos Williams (twentieth-century American poetry). He is a research fellow in American literature at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt. The author of various articles and reviews relating to his interests in contemporary American fiction and twentieth-century poetry, he is also editor of Rigor of Beauty: Essays in Commemoration of William Carlos Williams. See less