Morton D. Paley has spent most of his professional career at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is now Emeritus Professor of English. He has also taught at the City University of New York and Boston University; and has been a visiting professor at the State University of New York, the University of Zürich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the University of Bern, the University of Uppsala, and the University of Heidelberg (the last as Senior Fulbright Lecturer). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow twice, a Research Fellow of the National Humanities Institute, and a Fellow at the Yale Center for British Art. In 2002 he was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Keats-Shelley Association of America. He is Emeritus Fellow of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the period October 2006 to October 2008.