- Name: Professor Marjorie Levinson
- Institution: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Dissertation Title: "The Romantic Legacy in British Poetry of the 1930s" (1968)
- Name: Professor Susan Wolfson
- Institution: University of Pennsylvania
- Dissertation Title: "The Poetic Sublime: A Study of English Poetry, 1750-1830" (1973)
- Name: Professor Michael Gamer
- Institution: Columbia University
- Dissertation Title: "The Romantic Construction of the Child in British Literature, 1770-1850" (1984)
- Name: Professor Anne Mellor
- Institution: Stanford University
- Dissertation Title: "British Romantic Irony" (1982)
- Name: Professor Jerome McGann
- Institution: University of California, Berkeley
- Dissertation Title: "Wordsworth and the Romantic Ideology" (1971)
These are just a few examples of the many individuals who have completed PhDs in Romantic poetry.