Tom Keymer is Chancellor Henry N.R. Jackman University Professor of English at the University of Toronto, where he teaches courses in British and Irish Literature 1640–1830, narrative and the novel, and book history and print culture. Born in London, he studied at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, under the direction of J.H. Prynne, and then held positions at Emmanuel College, Cambridge; Royal Holloway, University of London; and St Anne’s College, Oxford, where he remains a Supernumerary Fellow. He moved in 2006 to the University of Toronto, where he has affiliations with Massey College, University College, and St Michael's College, and has served in administrative roles including Director of UofT’s Collaborative Program in Book History & Print Culture (2013–17, 2023–24) and Interim Chair of the Department of English (2021–22). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an International Fellow of the British Academy, and has also held research or visiting fellowships with the Leverhulme Trust, the Guggenheim Foundation, and All Souls College, Oxford. His main research interests are in Restoration, eighteenth-century and Romantic-period literature; narrative and the novel, including modernist fiction; book history and print culture; literature, politics and national identities; literature and law, especially censorship and libel; life-writing and subjectivity; environmental humanities and urban studies; theories of intertextuality, influence and reception; the theory and practice of textual editing. His books include Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics (2020), Poetics of the Pillory: English Literature and Seditious Libel 1660–1820 (2019), The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 1: Prose Fiction from the Origins of Print to 1750 (ed., 2017), and the Oxford World’s Classics editions of Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Johnson’s Rasselas, Beckford’s Vathek, and Austen’s Northanger Abbey. Between 2009 and 2022 he served as General Editor of the Review of English Studies; ongoing editorial projects include The Oxford Handbook of Henry Fielding, co-edited with Henry Power, and, as co-General Editor, The Cambridge Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Samuel Richardson and The Cambridge History of the Literature of London. He is writing a monograph about Fielding, authorship, and urban life.