Eric Weiskott

Eric Weiskott grew up in Greenport, New York, on the east end of Long Island. He teaches poetry and poetics at Boston College, with a focus on the 14th century.

Weiskott is the author of the critical studies Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350–1650 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021) and English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History (Cambridge University Press, 2016), which won the 2018 English Association Beatrice White Prize. Since 2016, he has coedited the Yearbook of Langland Studies, a journal devoted to the 14th-century author William Langland and his enigmatic long alliterative poem Piers Plowman. Weiskott's writing on literature, politics, and higher education has appeared in The Atlantic, Vox, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and elsewhere. His poems have appeared in Texas Review, Inverted Syntax, 8 Poems, burntdistrict, and Versal.

Weiskott earned a PhD in English from Yale University.