Jahan Ramazani is University Professor and Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of numerous books of criticism on poetry, including Poetry in a Global Age (2020); Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres (University of Chicago Press, 2014); A Transnational Poetics (University of Chicago Press, 2009), winner of the Harry Levin Prize for best book in comparative literary history published in the years 2008 to 2010; The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English (University of Chicago Press, 2001); Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney (University of Chicago Press, 1994), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Yeats and the Poetry of Death: Elegy, Self-Elegy, and the Sublime (Yale University Press, 1990). 

Ramazani edited The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2017); is a coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry (W.W. Norton & Company, 2003) and The Norton Anthology of English Literature (2006, 2012, 2018); and is an associate editor of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics (Princeton University Press, 2012). 

Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016 and the American Philosophical Society in 2022, Ramazani is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEH Fellowship, a Rhodes Scholarship, the William Riley Parker Prize of the MLA, and the Thomas Jefferson Award, the University of Virginia’s highest honor.