Duncan Wu is Raymond A. Wagner Professor of Literary Studies at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. He has also been a Professor at the University of Glasgow (1995–2000) and St Catherine's College, Oxford (2000–2008). He has published a number of books about the Romantic poets and is best known for Romanticism: An Anthology, which will proceed to its fifth edition in 2024. He has also written reviews and feature articles for The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and The Independent.

Origin Myths is his first poetry collection.