Regina Hewitt

Professor Emerita

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Regina Hewitt earned her Ph.D., M.Phil., and M.A. from Columbia University after completing a B.A. at Rutgers University. Upon receipt of her doctorate in 1987, she joined the faculty at USF, where she taught until retiring in 2024.

Hewitt remains an active scholar, specializing in the literature and social theory of the Romantic Era and in Scottish Studies.  She serves as Consulting Editor for the European Romantic Review, a journal she co-edited from 2003 to 2016, and as Chair of the John Galt Society. A selection of her recent publications appears below; a complete list can be found in the linked curriculum vitae.

Selected Publications

• John Galt, Southennan. Edited by Regina Hewitt. Edinburgh Edition of the Works of John Galt, Edinburgh University Press. Under contract.
• “Maria Edgeworth’s Utopian Practice.” Cambridge History of Women and British Romanticism. Ed. Julie Carlson. Cambridge UP, forthcoming 2026 (424-55).
• New Directions in Galt Studies. Sp. Issue of European Romantic Review, 4 (2026). Ed. Regina Hewitt.
• “‘Sagacious Inferences’: Galt, Hume and Characterisation.” John Galt, Universal Traveller: Critical Essays on His Works. Ed. Angela Esterhammer, Robert P. Irvine, Gerard Lee McKeever. Edinburgh UP, forthcoming.
• “Social Science.” Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose. Ed. Robert Morrison. Oxford UP, 2024 (349-64). https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-british-romantic-prose-9780198834540?cc=us&lang=en&
• Law, Equity and Romantic Writing: Seeking Justice in the Age of Revolutions. Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt. Edinburgh UP, 2024. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-law-equity-and-romantic-writing.html
• John Galt, Lawrie Todd; or, The Settlers in the Woods. Edited by Regina Hewitt. Edinburgh Edition of the Works of John Galt, Edinburgh University Press, 2023. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-lawrie-todd.html
• “Social Comment.” International Companion to Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature. Ed. Caroline McCracken-Flesher, Sheila Kidd, Kenneth McNeil. Glasgow: Scottish Literature International [Imprint of the Association for the Study of Scottish Literature], 2022. https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/companions/ic8/
• Commemorating Peterloo: Violence, Resilience and Claim-making during the Romantic Era. Ed. Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2019. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-commemorating-peterloo-hb.html