Benjamin Colbert

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Benjamin Colbert (born 1961) is a British-based American academic who is Reader in English at the University of Wolverhampton and an expert on historical travel writing.{{Cite web |title=Benjamin Colbert Profile |url=https://researchers.wlv.ac.uk/B.Colbert |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=researchers.wlv.ac.uk}} Educated at Tulane University, Oxford University and UCLA, he is the author of Shelley's Eye: Travel Writing and Aesthetic Vision (2003) and the editor of volume 3 of British Satire 1785–1840. He is the editor of the Database of British Travel Writing, 1780–1840.{{Cite web |title=Women’s Travel Writing, 1780–1840 |url=https://www.british-travel-writing.org/ |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=www.british-travel-writing.org}}