Paul Fry (professor)

Paul H. Fry
Born
Known forBritish Romantic poetry scholarship
Literary theory teaching
Open Yale Courses
SpouseBrigitte Peucker
AwardsMelville Cane Award (1980)
Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teaching Award (2011)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (B.A.)
Harvard University (Ph.D.)
Academic work
InstitutionsYale University

Paul H. Fry is an American literary critic and Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University, specializing in British Romanticism, the history of literary criticism, contemporary literary theory, and the intersections between literature and the visual arts. He served as the William Lampson Professor of English from 1993 until his retirement in 2018 after 47 years on the Yale faculty.