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Elizabeth Clarke, BA (King’s College), DPhil (Oxon) – ProfessorSeventeenth-century religious poetry, spirituality and religious writing, particularly by nonconformists and women, Women’s manuscript writing. She leads the Perdita Project for early modern women’s manuscript compilations. (An anthology of verse from women’s manuscripts by the Perdita team is coming out next year with Ashgate). She is the author of Theory and Theology in George Herbert’s Poetry (Clarendon Press, 1997) and co-edited ‘This Double Voice’: gendered writing in early modern England (Macmillan, 2000), ‘Re-writing the Bride’: politics, authorship and the Song of Songs in seventeenth century England (forthcoming with Macmillan) Thomas Docherty, MA Glasgow, DPhil (Oxon) – Professor Thomas Docherty has published on most areas of English and comparative literature from the Renaissance to present day. He specialises in the philosophy of literary criticism, in critical theory, and in cultural history in relation primarily to European philosophy and literatures. Books include Reading (Absent) Character; John Donne Undone; On Modern Authority; Postmodernism; After Theory; Alterities; Criticism and Modernity; Aesthetic Democracy. He is currently engaged in research for a book on ‘the literate and humane university’ and a book on modern Irish writing. Docherty supervises work on all aspects of critical theory, and has a particular interest in taking on doctoral projects involving contemporary French and Italian philosophy or Enlightenment studies. Other areas of interest include: European cinema, Scottish literature and culture, Irish literature, modernism and modernity, Beckett, Proust. Will Eaves (BA Hons, ) – Assistant Professor Will Eaves (BA Hons) is a novelist, poet, journalist and musician. From 1995 until 2011 he was the Arts Editor of the Times Literary Supplement. His novels The Oversight (2001, shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award), Nothing To Be Afraid Of (2005, shortlisted for the Society of Authors’ Encore Prize) and This Is Paradise (February, 2012) are published by Picador. His poetry (Sound Houses, 2011) is published by Carcanet. His literary interests include Macbeth, The Tempest, the works of Jane Austen, the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, the early novels of William Golding; Shirley Jackson; the postwar comedy (from Spark to Bainbridge), shape, style and form in lyric poetry, dialogue, the development of the internal critic. John Fletcher, BA (Melbourne), BPhil (Oxon) – Associate Professor (on Study Leave Term 1) BA (Melbourne), BPhil (Oxon.); I have taught Shakespeare; eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic and related writing; Classical Hollywood melodrama of the 1940s and 1950s; the formation of modern gay and lesbian cultural identities, sub-cultures and writings; psychoanalytic theory; and have published in most of these areas. I have edited volumes on film melodrama, the work of Julia Kristeva and Jean Laplanche, including a special issue of New Formations translating recent work by Laplanche and his co-thinkers (2003) and his recent collection of essays (Freud and the Sexual). Current Research interests Psychoanalytic theory and literature, especially the work of Sigmund Freud and Jean Laplanche which is my current research interest. I am finishing a monograph on Freud, Freud and the Scene of Trauma, to be published by Fordham University Press (2013), and incubating a book on the psychoanalytic theory of fantasy and its implications for reading literary and film texts: Reading Fantasy: Primal Scenes in Literature, Film and Psychoanalysis. I have edited and co-translated from the French Laplanche's most recent volume Freud and the Sexual (International Psychoanalytic Books, 2012). For publications and links to podcast lectures, see my personal webpage:
Emma Francis, BA, MA (Southampton), PhD (Liverpool) – Associate ProfessorHas research interests in nineteenth century literature and feminist thought. Publications include ‘Amy Levy Contradictions? Feminism and Semitic Discourse’ in Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain (eds.) Gender and Genre: Women’s Poetry 1830-1900 (Macmillan, 1998), ‘“Conquered good and conquering ill”: Femininity, Power and Romanticism in Emily Bronte’s Poetry’ in Edward Larrissy (ed.) Romanticism and Postmodernism (CUP, 1999) and (co-ed. with Kate Chedgzoy and Murray Pratt) In a Queer Place: Sexuality and Belonging(Ashgate, 2002). She has also published essays on Letitia Landon and the late 19th century socialist-feminist Eleanor Marx. Current major project is a monograph study Women’s Poetry and Woman’s Mission: British Women’s Poetry and the Sexual Division of Culture, 1824-1894. Maureen Freely, AB (Harvard) – ProfessorFreelance journalist writing for, amongst others, The Guardian, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, and The Independent on Sunday. She has published two works of non-fiction as well as five novels: Mother’s Helper (1979), The Life of the Party (1985), The Stork Club (1991), Under the Vulcania (1994), The Other Rebecca (1996). Maureen has also published Pandora’s Clock: Understanding Our Fertility and What About Us? An Open Letter to the Mothers that Feminism Forgot. She has taught creative writing at the Universities of Florida, Texas and Oxford since 1984. Gill Frith, BA (Oxon), MA, PhD (Warwick) – Associate Professor British women’s fiction (Victorian to contemporary); feminist literary theory and cultural theory. She is the author of Dreams of Difference: Women and Fantasy (1992) and of numerous essays on reading and gender. She is currently completing a book on the representation of female friendship and national identity in nineteenth and twentieth-century novels by British women writers. Michael Gardiner, BA (Oxon), MA (Goldsmiths), PhD (St Andrews) – Professor (on Study leave Term 1) Literature and nationhood and the relation of British constitutionality to cultural history; Englishness and the disciplinarity of English Literature; Comparative Modernism; modern Japanese literary and cultural history. Books include: The Cultural Roots of British Devolution (EUP, 2004), Modern Scottish Culture (EUP, 2005); Scottish Critical Theory Since 1960 (EUP, 2006); Escalator (fiction) (Polygon, 2006); At the Edge of Empire: The Life of Thomas B. Glover (Birlinn, 2008); The Return of England in English Literature (Palgrave: forthcoming 2012); Global Modernisms: An Introduction (Continuum: forthcoming 2013). John T. Gilmore, MA, PhD (Cambridge), Associate Professor John Gilmore is one of the editors of The Oxford Companion to Black British History (Oxford University Press, 2007; Oxford Paperback Reference edition, 2010) and his other publications include Faces of the Caribbean (Latin America Bureau, 2000), The Poetics of Empire: A Study of James Grainger’s The Sugar-Cane (Athlone Press, 2000), and a number of articles and book chapters on representations of race and gender in eighteenth-century verse by British and Caribbean writers, in both English and Latin. Other research interests include the history of translation in the eighteenth century; issues relating to the reception of classical literature and to Latin, race and gender; and the history of cultural relations between China and the West, especially in the period from the eighteenth century to the present, and with a particular focus on Western representations of China. |