STUART CURRAN

CURRAN--Stuart, August 3, 1940 - October 7, 2024. Leading Romanticist and author of groundbreaking books on Shelley, which helped restore the poet's place in literary history. One of several editors of the Johns Hopkins Shelley edition, and editor of novels by Mary Shelley, Charlotte Smith, and other female writers of the eighteenth century. Expert on Romantic poetic genres, longtime editor of the Keats-Shelley journal, past President of the Keats- Shelley Association of America. Vartan Gregorian Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania from 1974 until his retirement in 2012. His work with American students in Italy, studying Romantic relationships in the time of Keats and Byron, was exemplary. Survived by his brother Richard Curran of San Diego and by niece Ellen Curran Wells of Seattle and nephews Bruce Curran of Seattle and Marc and John Curran of Detroit; as well as by friends, generations of students and colleagues, and his husband of 57 years, Joseph Wittreich. Memorial service at a later date.