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CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION 3
COURSE DESCRIPTION 4
Entry Requirements 4
Course Requirements 5Examination: 100% Assessed 5
Admission to Higher Degrees 5
English Language Requirement 5
COURSE SUMMARIES 6-10
THE DISSERTATION 10
GENERAL INFORMATION 11
PERSONAL TUTORS 11
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT RESEARCH 12-22
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DIPLOMA IN ENGLISH
INTRODUCTION
The Diploma is a one-year course (two years part-time) planned especially for those studentswho wish to read for a higher degree in English Literature, but whose undergraduateeducation is not such as to make it advisable for them to attend the MA course withoutfurther preparation. It acts as a ‘conversion course’ for the MA – provided that the studentachieves the appropriate grade.
The pattern of study is particularly suited to overseas students. Overseas students enteringWarwick to study for the Diploma have in some cases gone on to pass the MA and in duecourse to be awarded a Warwick doctorate after successful completion of the PhD degree.
The Diploma can also, however, be taken as an independent postgraduate qualification.
Whether regarded in its own right or as a bridge to the MA and possible further study, theDiploma is suitable for a variety of students, both home and overseas, who wish to improveor acquire expertise in the field of English Literature.
Diploma Director
Dr Helen M. Dennis Room H515Tel: 024 76 523656Email: [email protected]
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Candidates for the Diploma in English are required to pursue an approved programme ofstudy containing coursework and dissertation elements for at least three terms, full-time.Two years are required for part-time study.
Entry Requirements
All candidates must satisfy the Warwick University Board of Graduate Studies' requirementsfor entry. Normally, candidates should have obtained an honours degree at an approveduniversity.
Course Requirements
Students are required to take three modules, taken from modules available to second andthird year undergraduate students, one of which will probably be ‘Shakespeare and SelectedDramatists of his Time’. This is a module particularly well suited to Diploma students and ofvital importance to the study of literature. These modules will be examined by essays.Modules will be chosen with the guidance of the Diploma Director, Helen Dennis.
Three undergraduate modules chosen from the list below:-
A) (1) EN213 US Writing & Culture 1780-1920(2) EN227 Romantic & Victorian Poetry(3) EN228 17th Century Literature & Culture(4) EN229 Literary & Cultural Theory(5) EN301 Shakespeare & Selected Dramatists of his Time(6) EN330 18th Century Literature
(B) A Dissertation
Note that while the final deadline for all written work for the Diploma is the same as for theMA (beginning of September), students are required to produce earlier drafts for all writtenwork, and must take their tutors' advice on this.
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Examination: 100% Assessed.
1. All modules: assessment by Essays, on topics to be agreed by arrangement withthe course tutor. Normally either two essays will be required, to a total of 7,000words.
2. Dissertation: 6-8,000 words, on a subject to be agreed with an appropriate supervisor.
The Diploma shall normally be awarded only to candidates who achieve marks of at least 40in all four areas; but one mark in the 30-39 range need not fail a candidate, provided it iscompensated by at least one mark proportionally above 40 elsewhere.
Admission to Higher Degrees
Admission to the higher-degree programme shall be at the discretion of the Board ofGraduate Studies. FOUR MARKS OF 50 OR ABOVE IN THE DIPLOMA WILL NORMALLY BE
REQUIRED.
Pre-Sessional Course in English for Overseas Students
Where the Department judges it appropriate, students will be required to attend the Pre-Sessional Course in English for Overseas Students in September, followed by regular term-time instruction devised for their particular needs.
Students will not be given a separate examination in English Language.
Information for International Students
Critical Practice is a series of non-credit-bearing seminars designed for international studentsat MA and PhD level. Meeting once a fortnight in Term 1, the seminars discuss a variety ofcritical approaches to literary texts and are intended to give international students insight intothe prevailing critical approaches in use in the UK. Each seminar will focus on a single shorttext (poem, short story, etc) and will be led by a member of the English Department able todraw on her/his methodological expertise. Because textual critical practice can vary sharplyfrom country to country, all international students are strongly encouraged to attend theseseminars; meeting time and day will be announced in Week 1 of Term 1. Please note thatthese seminars are not intended to help students with their English language expression; forhelp in this area, students are directed to the Centre for Applied Linguistics (CAL), and theirprograms on academic writing and grammar (please see their website athttp://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/learning_english/activities/aez/). The EnglishDepartment also offers essay-writing assistance (in terms of structure and argument, but notEnglish usage) through its Royal Literary Fund fellows, who will read draft essays and offeradvice. Information about their availability will be circulated at the start of Term 1.
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MODULE SUMMARIES
1) EN2130 US Writing and Culture 1780-1920
Dr Daniel Katz
ObjectivesThis module explores central issues in U.S. literary and discursive writing and culture in textsranging from the early Republic to the early twentieth century. During this period the U.S.grew from a small breakway state to a continental nation, enduring periodic crises of gender,race, and class relations. The module will examine the ways in which these matters wererepresented and contested.
By the end of this module you should have: Read a range of U.S. fictional and discursive writing between the late eighteenth andthe early twentieth century. Become familiar with issues of race (slavery), gender, and class and their representationin U.S. writing during the long nineteenth century. Gained a sense of social and historical trends during the period. Gained a sense of different critical approaches to reading and interpreting nineteenth-century U.S. texts. Become prepared to take 20C U.S. writing and other Americanist modules. Improved your ability to interpret textual passages. Increased your argumentative skill in writing academic essays.
There will be a weekly lecture (Tuesdays 2:00-3:00) and small-group seminars. The seminars
will mainly focus on the text(s) handled in the lecture.
Highly Recommended Texts:Ed. Pauline Maier, et al, Inventing America, Volume I ;Gordon S. Harvey, Writing with Sources: A Guide for Students (Hackett).
Teaching Times: Weekly seminar held Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday.
PLEASE CONSULT THE MODULE WEBSITE FOR THE 2008-09 READING LISTAT THE END OF THE SUMMER TERM.
2) EN227 Romantic and Victorian Poetry
Dr Emma Francis
OverviewThis module examines the work of significant poets from the Romantic and Victorian periodsand situates their writing within the cultural, social, political, economic, scientific andaesthetic debates of the periods. You will pay close attention to both formal and contextualdimensions of the poems. We will also consider the reception of these poets across the 20th
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and 21st centuries: issues of canon formation, class, gender and the politics of rediscoveryand revaluation will be to the fore.
Outline syllabusPoets studied include: Charlotte Smith, William Blake, John Keats, John Clare, WilliamWordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Felicia Dorothea Hemans,Alfred Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti,Algernon Charles Swinburne, Amy Levy, Augusta Webster, Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Teaching Time: Lecture Thursday 1.00 – 2.00pm. Weekly seminars of one hour. Anevening seminar is also available.
3) EN228 Seventeeth Century Literature & Culture
Dr Elizabeth Clarke
ObjectivesThis module covers one of the most exciting periods of English history. The seventeenthcentury in England saw two revolutions, huge constitutional changes, the widening of thepolitical and literary classes, and the gradual acceptance of women as authors. This moduleaims to trace these political and social changes through the literature of the seventeenthcentury, and consider how these historical changes themselves transformed literary writing inEnglish. In the process, it looks at some writing that is marginal to the literary canon, andreads well-known literature in new and exciting ways.
Outline SyllabusPoetry: Ben Jonson, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Katherine Philips, John Milton, theEarl of RochesterDrama: Ben Jonson, William Wycherley, George Etherege, Aphra BehnProse: Agnes Beaumont, Aphra Behn.
Teaching Time:Lecture Monday 11.00-12.00. Weekly seminars of one hour, various times,typically Monday am & pm, Tuesday am, Wednesday am, Thursday am.
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4) EN229 Literary & Cultural Theory
Dr Graeme Macdonald
ObjectivesThis module is intended as an introduction to the contemporary academic sub-field of criticaltheory. Because the field as it is currently constituted is too large and heterogeneous to admitof a formal survey within the constraints of a two-term syllabus, the readings for the modulehave been clustered around certain nodal issues or debates. The aim of the module is tofamiliarise students with the general contours and parameters of contemporary critical theory,and to introduce key concepts, methods, debates, and controversies in the field. This is not amodule in “practical criticism”. It does not approach critical writings with an eye to their“application” to specific literary texts. Instead, it might be thought of as aiming to provide abasis - epistemological, methodological, institutional—for the study of cultural (and social)texts in general.
Outline SyllabusSelected writings by such writers as: Adorno, Baudrillard, Benjamin, Bourdieu, Butler,Eagleton, Foucault, Freud, Habermas, Irigaray, Jameson, Kant, Marx, Saussure, Williams.
Teaching Time: Lecture Wednesday 10.00-11.00. Weekly seminars of one hour, Thursdayam.
(5) EN3010 Shakespeare and Selected Dramatists of His Time
Professor Carol Rutter/Dr Paul Prescott
ObjectivesIn this module we look at a selection of plays by Shakespeare and some of his most eminentcontemporaries in the context of the theatre and culture of the time. In the first term we aimto write a ‘grammar’ of the Elizabethan theatre and to explore elements of text andperformance in a concentrated body of four plays. We discuss ways in which these playshave been (and are being) produced in the modern theatre and on film. We are interested inhistory and politics as well as performance, poetry and genre - we aim to set Shakespeare’searly career against Christopher Marlowe’s, then observe his development as writer ofcomedy and tragedy against selected plays by Thomas Middleton and Ben Jonson. Themodule also features theatre trips and a range of practical events offered by the CAPITALCentre; these are designed to encourage a creative and theatrically sensitive engagement withShakespeare’s texts.
Outline SyllabusMarlowe, The Jew of Malta, Dr Faustus, Edward II, a selection of fourteen plays byShakespeare to represent different facets of his career (this will probably include Love’sLabour’s Lost, Richard II, Henry IV, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Twelfth Night, TheTempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure), Webster, The White Devil,The Duchess of Malfi.
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Teaching Time: Lecture Monday 14.00 - 15.00 and Wednesday 13.00 - 14.00. Weeklyseminars of one hour typically Monday am & pm, Tuesday pm, Wednesday am, Thursdayam.
Diploma candidates are not required to take a formal exam, but will instead be able to followtheir own interests within the module, leading to the writing of appropriate assessed essays,for which they will receive individual extra tuition.
From September 2008 students may elect to take the seminar component in one of two ways:traditional: (1.5 hours per week)discussion and close textual analysis in a tutorial situation;practical: (2 hours per week): 'Shakespeare without chairs' active exploration of texts in threedimensions (held in the rehearsal room in the CAPITAL Centre). Seminars normallyMonday, am & pm; Tuesday pm; Wednesday am; Thursday am; Friday am & pm.
6) EN330 Eighteenth-Century Literature
Professor Karen O’Brien
ObjectivesThe eighteenth century witnessed the emergence of genres such as the novel, biography, newkinds of travel writing and mock-heroic. Starting with Robinson Crusoe, the story of a man’sisolation on a desert island, the module aims to introduce students to a variety of prose, dramaand poetry, and to some central historical, cultural and stylistic developments at work in textsfrom the period. Proceeding chronologically, we will concentrate for the most part on oneauthor or text each week. There will also be two ‘special projects’: on travel writing anddiscovery, featuring a trip to the British Museum’s Enlightenment galleries; and on comicdrama, featuring practical work on Sheridan’s The Rivals and Goldsmith’s She Stoops toConquer. As well as lectures, featuring introductions to writers and their works, there will beseminars for group discussion. There will also be optional training in the use of the Library’selectronic resource, Eighteenth-Century Collections On-Line.
Please consult the course webpages before purchasing books as there may be someminor changes. The page of 08/09 will go up early in the summer vacation, so make sureyou are not looking at the pages for the previous year.
Outline SyllabusAlexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1714) and other poemsLady Mary Wortley Montagu, Turkish Embassy Letters (1716-18) [photocopies]Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719)Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (1726)Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740) [in the World’s Classics edition] and Henry Fielding,Shamela (1741) [photocopy]Samuel Johnson, Rasselas (1759), essays and extracts from Dictionary (1755)Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) and She Stoops to Conquer (1773)Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey (1768)Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals (1775)Frances Burney, Evelina (1778)Jane Austen, Juvenilia (1780s-90s) [photocopy].
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Teaching Time: Lectures, Tuesdays 1-2pm; Seminars, times to be arranged
7) THE DISSERTATION
The dissertation is likely to be the most demanding aspect of the Diploma Course, and theone most particularly useful in determining a student's capacity for proceeding to M.A. study.In the case of the dissertation, students are free to select any topic of their own choice,provided that there is an appropriately qualified tutor available within the English Departmentto act as supervisor. It is not necessary to choose a different general area of study from thoseexamined in the taught courses selected, but care must be taken not to repeat particular topicsof work.Students will be introduced by supervisors to the research skills necessary for their chosentask, and will have the benefit of working on a one-to-one basis with an expert in their chosenfield. A list of English Department research interests is given below.
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GENERAL
Immediately upon arrival you should see the English Graduate Secretary (Mrs Cheryl Cave)in the English Office in order to supply her with your address, and you should complete anOPTION-CHOICE CARD as soon as you have agreed on your Options for the year with Dr.Helen M.Dennis. Please also provide the Secretary with a PASSPORT PHOTOGRAPH ofyourself. During term time all tutors set aside office hours during which they are availablefor consultation. Times of office hours are posted on tutors' doors, and all Postgraduate tutorsinclude a late afternoon time specifically for postgraduate students.
Messages for academic staff may be left in Reception (Room H506). Students' pigeonholesare provided opposite the lift at the far end of the corridor (opposite Room H542). You areadvised to check these regularly for mail and messages. Postgraduate students are welcometo use the Senior Common Room, H502.
There is a Graduate Notice Board outside rooms 503/4. You are advised to check thisregularly, especially the section specifically for Diploma Students.
Public Transport to and from the University: a timetable may be purchased from UniversityHouse Reception.
Lost property is also held by University House Reception. If you lose something, however,first try the office, and also the porter in the Lodge on the Ground Floor. It is unwise to leavepersonal property lying unattended.
Students who would like their dissertations bound should go to LazerLizard
Personal Tutors
A notice about personal-tutor arrangements for postgraduate students will be posted on thegraduate notice boards during the first or second week of term.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERARY STUDIES:
ACADEMIC STAFF AND THEIR RESEARCH
Liz Barry, BA (York), MPhil, DPhil (Oxford) – Associate Professor
English and French modernism, especially Beckett; modern British and Irish theatre; post-war French theatre; Anglo-Irish writing; language and literature; literary theory. Publishedon subjects such as Beckett and religious language, Beckett and romanticism, the novelistHenry Green, and the treatment of Jean Genet in feminist theory. Working on a monographon the uses of cliché in Beckett’s work.
Jonathan Bate, BA, MA, PhD (Cambridge) - Professor
Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, Romanticism, Eco Criticism, and history of theatre.His publications include Shakespeare and Ovid (1993), the Arden edition of Titus Andronicus(1995), The Genius of Shakespeare (1997), two influential work of ecocriticism, RomanticEcology (1991)and The Song of the Earth (2000) and a novel about William Hazlitt, TheCure for Love. His biography of John Clare (2003) won the Hawthornden prize for Literatureand the James Tait Black Memoiral Prize for Biography. His most recent publications are anew edition of Clare’s Selected Poetry (Faber and Faber, 2004) and a new introduction to thePenguin edition of Andrew Marvell’s complete poetry. He is currently editing the completeworks of Shakespeare for the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he is a Governor, andwriting a book on Elizabethan culture for Viking Penguin called All the Queen’s Men.
Catherine Bates, BA, MA, DPhil (Oxford) – Associate Professor (Reader)
Literature and culture of the Renaissance period. Her books include The Rhetoric ofCourtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature (CUP, 1992), a Penguin selection of thepoems of Sir Philip Sidney. Play in a Godless World: The Theory and Practice of Play inShakespeare, Nietzsche and Freud (London: Open Gate Press, 1999)Her current work is directed towards a book called Poetry and the Abject Male whichexamines representations of masculinity both in the courtly love poetry of the EnglishRenaissance (mainly Sidney, Raleigh, Shakespeare, Donne and Jonson) and in contemporarycriticism of that poetry. The book interrogates a recuperative narrative which traditionallyturns the abject male lover of amour courtois into a master of rhetorical wit. This work hasevolved from an MA course she teaches on ‘Modes of Masculinity in Renaissance Poetry’.
Christina Britzolakis, BA (Witwatersrand), MPhil, DPhil. (Oxford) – AssociateProfessor
Modernist poetics and its interrelations with critical theory, continental philosophy andpsychoanalysis; Sylvia Plath; Emily Dickinson; Henry James. She is the author of themonograph Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning (Oxford English Monographs Series –OUP, 1999) and has published articles on modernist poetry, fiction and drama, includingJames Joyce, T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden. Her current research is concerned with visualityand technology in international modernist culture and draws on the work of Walter Benjamin.
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Elizabeth Clarke, BA (King’s College), DPhil (Oxford) – Associate Professor (Reader)
Seventeenth-century religious poetry, spirituality and religious writing, particularly bynonconformists and women, Women’s manuscript writing. She leads the Perdita Project forearly modern women’s manuscript compilations. (An anthology of verse from women’smanuscripts by the Perdita team is coming out next year with Ashgate). She is the author ofTheory 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 centuryEngland (forthcoming with Macmillan).
Helen Dennis, BA, DPhil (York) – Associate Professor
She has published on Elizabeth Bishop, Willa Cather, Gender in American Literature andCulture, Adrienne Rich, Ezra Pound and Medieval Provençal. She teaches 19th and 20thcentury American Literature with specific interests in modernism and gender, twentieth-century North American Women Writers, Native American literature and culture, and theliterature of the American Southwest. Current research interests include twentieth-centuryNative American authors, and Ezra Pound. She has supervised graduate work on NinaBawden, Anita Brookner, Mary Daly, Emily Dickinson, H.D., T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, LouiseErdrich, Linda Hogan, Sarah Orne Jewett, Georgia O’Keeffe, Toni Morrison, Sarah MorganBryan Piatt, Jean Rhys, Lesley Marmon Silko, Cormac McCarthy, Gertrude Stein, theSouthern Anti-Tom Tradition 1852-1902, and Chicana writing since the 1960s. She isparticularly keen to supervise research on Native American authors.
Thomas Docherty, MA Glasgow, DPhil (Oxford) – Professor – Chair of Department
Thomas Docherty has published on most areas of English and comparative literature from theRenaissance to present day. He specialises in the philosophy of literary criticism, in criticaltheory, 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 abook on modern Irish writing.
Docherty supervises work on all aspects of critical theory, and has a particular interest intaking on doctoral projects involving contemporary French and Italian philosophy orEnlightenment studies. Other areas of interest include: European cinema, Scottish literatureand culture, Irish literature, modernism and modernity, Beckett, Proust.
John Fletcher, BA (Melbourne), BPhil (Oxford) – Associate ProfessorThree main areas: eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic and related writing; theformation of modern gay and lesbian cultural identities, sub-cultures and writings;psychoanalytic theory, especially the work of Jean Laplanche.He has edited volumes on film melodrama (Melodrama and Transgression, in Screen 1987),Julia Kristeva (Abjection, Melancholia and Love, 1990) and Jean Laplanche (JeanLaplanche: a Dossier, 1992), and a collection of Laplanche’s metapsychologicalpapers, Essays on Otherness (1999). He is finishing a book on the psychoanalytic theory of
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fantasy and its implications for reading literary and film texts: Reading Fantasy: PrimalScenes in Literature, Film and Psychoanalysis. He is also incubating a book on Modernityand the Gothic, the haunting of the culture of modernity by the ineradicable hold of traditionand inheritance.
Emma Francis, BA, MA (Southampton), PhD (Liverpool) – Associate ProfessorHas research interests in nineteenth century literature and feminist thought. Publicationsinclude ‘Amy Levy Contradictions? Feminism and Semitic Discourse’ in Isobel Armstrongand Virginia Blain (eds.) Gender and Genre: Women’s Poetry 1830-1900 (Macmillan,1998), ‘“Conquered good and conquering ill”: Femininity, Power and Romanticism in EmilyBronte’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 andBelonging(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 studyWomen’s Poetry and Woman’s Mission: British Women’s Poetry and the Sexual Division ofCulture, 1824-1894.
Maureen Freely, AB (Harvard) – Associate Professor (Reader)
Freelance journalist writing for, amongst others, The Guardian, The Observer, The DailyTelegraph, and The Independent on Sunday. She has published two works of non-fiction aswell 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 publishedPandora’s Clock: Understanding Our Fertility and What About Us? An Open Letter to theMothers that Feminism Forgot. She has taught creative writing at the Universities of Florida,Texas and Oxford since 1984.
Gill Frith, BA (Oxford), MA, PhD (Warwick) – Associate ProfessorBritish women’s fiction (Victorian to contemporary); feminist literary theory and culturaltheory. She is the author of Dreams of Difference: Women and Fantasy (1992) and ofnumerous essays on reading and gender. She is currently completing a book on therepresentation of female friendship and national identity in nineteenth and twentieth-centurynovels by British women writers.
Michael Gardiner, BA (Oxf), MA (Goldsmiths), PhD (St Andrews) – Assistant ProfessorMichael Gardiner has published widely on twentieth-century Scottish literature and theculture of UK devolution. He is co-editing two books for EUP, _Scottish Literature andPostcolonial Literature_ and _The Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark_, as well as anumber of chapters for books by EUP and other publishers. He is also working on the historyof anti-psychiatry, specifically the links between Paris and Glasgow, and on models forcomparing European and Japanese modernism.
Teresa Grant, BA, PhD (Cambridge) – Associate ProfessorHas research interests in medieval and Renaissance drama, especially issues surroundingstaging, and in Renaissance literature and culture. She has a monograph in preparation forCUP about the uses of animals on the early modern stage, and is also working on history anddrama between 1500 and 1700. Her teaching expertise includes drama from Greek tragedy tothe present day, women writers and late medieval literature.
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Recent publications include: ‘Drama Queen Thomas Heywood’s If You Know Not Me’ inThe Myth of Elizabeth ed. Susan Doran and Thomas S. Freeman (Macmillan, 2003).‘Devotional Meditation: The Painted Ceiling at Skelmorlie Aisle’, Church MonumentsVolume XVII, 202 pp.68-88.
Tony Howard, BA (Warwick), MA (Toronto) – ProfessorShakespeare in performance; contemporary British drama; and Polish poetry and theatre. Heis the author of Shakespeare: Cinema: Hamlet (1993) and edited the accompanying videocomparing filmed versions of the play. The Woman in Black: the Actress as Hamlet,(forthcoming) which includes studies of the shifting relationship of culture and gender inBritain, America, Weimar Germany, Stalinist Russia, and Poland and East Germany duringthe fall of Communism. In the long term he plans a book on Shakespeare and the massmedia. He co-edited, with John Stokes, Acts of War (1996), which explores therepresentation of military conflict in postwar British stage and television drama.
Michael Hulse – Associate ProfessorMichael Hulse has won numerous awards for his poetry, including the National PoetryCompetition and the Society of Authors’ Cholmondeley Award, and his selected poems,Empires and Holy Lands: Poems 1976-2000, were published in 2002. The translator ofsome seventy books from the German (Goethe, Jakob Wassermann, Elfriede Jelinek, W.G.Sebald, etc), he is also a critic, has taught at universities in Germany and Switzerland, and hasread, lectured and conducted British Council and Goethe Institut workshops and seminarsworldwide. He edited the literary magazines Stand and Leviathan Quarterly, co-edited theanthology The New Poetry, and was general editor for several years of the Könemannliteratue classics series.
Cathia Jenainati, BA (Dist.), MA (Hons.), PhD (Warwick) – Associate Professor
Contemporary Canadian Writing in English, especially Atwood, Laurence, Munro, Ondaatje,Davies, Cohen and Wiebe; French Feminist Literary Theory, especially Kristeva, Irigaray,Cixous and Clément; 19th C US writing and Culture especially slave narratives and post-recontstruction fiction by female writers; 20th C US writing especially 1920-1950s fiction;narratives of history as memory.I have taught on Modes of Reading; 19th C US Writing and Culture; The European Novel;North American Women Writers and Critical practice for the MA. I have lectured onEmerson, Thoreau and Fuller; Stowe; Twain; Chopin; Faulkner, Ellison; Atwood; TheCanadian Short Story; Post-modernism in Canada. I am currently working on a monographentitled Narratives of the Self: The utilisation of memory as a narrative strategy incontemporary Canadian writing and will be supervising an undergraduate dissertation onZora Neale Hurston.As Co-ordinator of the Academic Writing Programme I will be teaching Academic Writing inthe English Department as well as organising a series of workshops, tutorials and lecturesaround the university. I am also preparing a manuscript on teaching Academic Writing atuniversity level.
Daniel Katz, BA (Reed), PhD (Stanford) – Assistant Professor
Modernism, the avant-garde, and post-modernism; psychoanalysis, philosophy, and criticaltheory; transatlantic literary studies; poetry, the lyric subject, and autobiographical
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constructions. My recent book, American Modernism's Expatriate Scene: The Labour ofTranslation, explored expatriation, translation, exoticism, multilingualism, and constructionsof native and foreign in Ezra Pound, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and Jack Spicer, amongothers. I have also examined similar questions, along with the issue of subjectivity, in thework of Samuel Beckett. My current research focuses on various twentieth-centuryelaborations of a poetics of interference, often as articulated through reflections on the local.I am happy to hear from potential doctoral students who feel their project falls within myareas of expertise.
Michael Kooy, BA (Redeemer), DPhil (Oxford) – Associate Professor
Literature and philosophy of the Romantic period, especially Coleridge and Barbauld; therelationship between philosophy and literature; contemporary poetry, especially GeoffreyHill; aesthetic education; and literature of war. His book, Coleridge, Schiller and AestheticEducation, is published by Palgrave. He has also published on the idea of 'history' in theRomantic period, and on Francophobia and political writing in the period. He is currentlyworking on a book about Coleridge and War. He has supervised PhD projects on T. S. Eliot,Coleridge, and 'Dialogues' in the Romantic period.
Jackie Labbe, BA (Ohio State), MA, PhD (Pennsylvannia) - Professor
Jacqueline Labbe's research interests range from the matrix of romance and violence thatunderpins Romanticism, to the generational potential in mother/daughter literaryrelationships, to the self-aware persona in the poetry of Charlotte Smith, to the engenderingimplicit in nineteenth-century children's literature. She has published Romantic Visualities:Landscape, Gender and Romanticism (Macmillan, 1998), The Romantic Paradox: Violence,Death, and the Uses of Romance, 1760-1830 (Macmillan, 2000), and an edition of CharlotteSmith's novel The Old Manor House (Broadview, 2002). Her latest book, Charlotte Smith:Romanticism, poetry and the culture of gender, was published by Manchester UniversityPress in 2003. She has also written on Mary Robinson, Priscilla Wakefield, S.T. Coleridge,Lewis Carroll, and other authors. She is currently editing the poems of Charlotte Smith forthe Pickering and Chatto Complete Works, and researching a new book on Smith,Wordsworth, and Romantic subjectivities.
Nicholas Lawrence, BA (Harvard), MA, PhD (New York at Buffalo) – AssistantProfessor
American literature and culture from the nineteenth century to the present, especially withinan international context; critical theory and media studies; theory and practice ofcollaboration; contemporary innovative poetry and poetics. Recent work includes articles onWhitman, Hawthorne, Frank O'Hara, Ronald Johnson, and American gothic; current researchfocuses on the politics of metropolitan and international encounter in modern Americanpoetry. He has edited a special feature on the work of Bruce Andrews for ‘Jacket’ magazineand has co-edited a bilingual anthology of innovative North American poetry for the Casa deLetras in Havana. He is the co-editor, with Marta Werner, of ‘Ordinary Mysteries: TheCommon Journal of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne’, forthcoming from the AmericanPhilosophical Society.
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Neil Lazarus, BA (Witwatersrand), MA (Essex), PhD (Keele) – Professor
‘Postcolonial’ literatures and cultures (African, especially, but also Caribbean, South andSouth-East Asian and disaporic/Black Atlanticist); ‘postcolonial’ theory; theories ofimperialism, nationalism, and anticolonial resistance; globalization; comparative modernities.More broadly, 19th and 20th century literature: the novel in English; literature of Empire;modernist literature and theories of modernism; literary theory. Publications includeResistance in Postcolonial African Fiction (Yale, 1990), Nationalism and Cultural Practicein the Postcolonial World (CUP, 1999), Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies (CUP2000), Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies (forthcoming from CUP).
Graeme MacDonald, MA [Jt Hons] (Aberdeen); PhD (Glasgow) - Associate Professor
Main research interests lie in the relationship between Literature, Sociology andAnthropology from 19th Century to the present; Naturalist fiction and theory; ScottishLiterature (especially contemporary); Literary and Cultural Theory; Literature, Nationalismand Citizenship.I am editor of Post Theory: New Directions in Criticism (EUP, 1999), have published recentarticles on Naturalist fiction, on the relationship between French and Scottish Literature, andon James Kelman. Currently preparing a monograph on James Kelman and, in the longerterm a major anthology on Writing and Social Investigation 1830-2000.
Peter Mack, BA, MA (Oxford), MPhil, PhD (London) – ProfessorRenaissance Rhetoric and Dialectic, European and English Renaissance Literature,Renaissance Thought and the Classical Tradition, Medieval European Literature, Chaucer,Dante. His books include Renaissance Argument: Valla and Agricola in the Traditions ofRhetoric and Dialectic (1993), Renaissance Rhetoric (1994), Elizabethan Rhetoric: Theoryand Practice (2002) and editions of Chaucer’s tales. His current project is a comparativestudy of the use Montaigne and Shakespeare made of their training in the analysis andimitation of classical literature.
Emma Mason, BA, MA (Cardiff) PHD (Warwick) – Associate ProfessorRomantic and Victorian poetry; theology and the bible; theories of emotion. Author ofWomen Poets of the Nineteenth Century (2005); and, with Mark Knight Nineteenth-CenturyReligion and Literature: An Introduction (2006). Joint editor of two forthcoming volumeson biblical hermeneutics: The Oxford Handbook to the Reception History of the Bible; andBlackwell’s Companion to the Bible in English Literature. Currently writing a book onWordsworth and forgiveness.
Jon Mee, BA (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), PhD (Cambridge) - Professor
Romanticism, literature and politics in the 1790s and after, William Blake, contemporaryIndian writing in English. My publications include Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blakeand the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s (1992) and Romanticism, Enthusiasm, andRegulation: Poetics and the Policing of Culture (2003). I have just edited an 8-volumeselection of trials for sedition and treason (1792-4) with John Barrell. My work in theRomantic period often returns to the complex of ideas surrounding literary andprint culture more generally in an emergent democratic society. The fascinationin the period for me lies in the fact that many of the issues that continue define and trouble
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modern democracies first took shape there. I currently hold a Philip J. Leverhulme MajorResearch Fellowship to work on a project entitled 'The Collision of Mind with Mind':Conversation, Controversy and Literature 1780-1822, which will investigate the evolution ofthe idea of 'the conversation of culture' for the Romantic period. Looking at a similar set ofissues from a much more detailed historical perspective, I am also completing a book onattempts to bring into being a literal republic of letters in the early 1790s under the workingtitle 'the laurel of liberty'
David Morley, BSc (Bristol) – Professor and Director of Warwick Writing ProgrammeDavid Morley writes essays, criticism and reviews for The Guardian, Poetry Review, andinternational journals. He has published eight collections of poetry and edited six anthologiesof new fiction and poetry, two of which are set texts. A trained ecologist, his poetry hasappeared in international literary journals, anthologies, as well as The London Review ofBooks, The Independent and The Guardian. His work has been translated into severallanguages, notably Chinese, and won many writing awards including the Arts CouncilRaymond Williams Prize; a Creative Ambitions Award from Arts Council West Midlands; anArts Council of England Writer Fellowship; an Arts Council of England Writers Award; aPoetry Book Society Special Commendation; a Hawthornden International WritersFellowship; an Eric Gregory Award from The Society of Authors; and a Tyrone GuthrieAward from Northern Arts Board. Poems have been widely broadcast on radio as well astelevision. He has been a keynote speaker at international academic conferences on Romanywriting (he is partly Romany) and creative writing, as well as reading his own poems atliterature festivals. He directs the Warwick Writing Programme at The University ofWarwick where he develops new practices in the teaching of creative and scientific writing.In 2005 David Morley was awarded a Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence, receivingthe highest score not only for that year but for all the years the scheme has run. In 2006 wasone of the winners of a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship from the Higher EducationAcademy.
Pablo Mukherjee, BA, MA Jadavpur University, Calcutta, M.Phil (Oxford), PhD(Cambridge) – Associate ProfessorHas research interests in nineteenth-century and contemporary imperial and popular cultures;Imperial/colonial discourses; Postcolonial and Cultural theory. He is currently editing avolume of essays entitled ‘Culture of New World Order’ and researching for an article onGertrude Bell: Gender, Occupation and Iraq. Publications include Crime and Empire:Representing India in the Nineteenth-Century (OUP: Oxford, 2003), Other Rurals:Heterotopia and Morrisons’ Jago Malabika Sarkar (ed.) Essays and Studies.
Karen O’Brien, BA, D.Phil (Oxford) – Professor
The British and French Enlightenments with particular reference to narrative history,questions of national and European identity, and intellectual and literary debates about thenature and role of women. Also eighteenth-century American literature and culture. Her firstbook, Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon, waspublished by Cambridge University Press in 1997. She has recently completed FeministDebates in Eighteenth-Century Britain to be published by Cambridge University Press.Current research, which has issued in a number of articles, is towards a book on Poetry and
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the British Empire, 1652-1815. She is Associate Director of the Warwick Eighteenth-Century Centre.
Benita Parry, BSoc Sc (Cape Town), BA, MA (Birmingham) – ProfessorThe literature of colonialism and imperialism, and postcolonial studies. Her books areDelusions and Discoveries: Studies on India in the British Imagination (1972), republishedwith a new preface by Verso 1998; Conrad and Imperialism: Ideological Boundaries andVisionary Frontiers (1984); and Postcolonial Studies : A Materialist Critique (2004) - acollection of essays on postcolonial theory and reading the signs of empire in metropolitanfiction, written between 1987 and 2003 and arranged in two sections ('Directions and DeadEnds in Postcolonial Studies' and 'The Imperial Imaginary') with new introductions. Has co-edited Cultural Representations of Imperialism: Edward Said and the Gravity of History(1998), and a volume of Essays and Studies No.1997 Postcolonial Criticism and Theory forthe English Association (1999) Contributed an essay to the Said Reader Blackwell, (1992)and to Relocating Postcolonialism, ed David Theo Goldberg and Ato Quayson, Blackwell.(2002); has written on South African cultural debates and the fiction of J M Coetzee; onFranz Fanon, on Hardt and Negri, on Bhabha, and and on the Marxist Legacy in PostcolonialStudies.Recent and forthcoming publications are 'The Institutionalization of PostcolonialStudies' in The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies, ed N. Lazarus, 2004;'The Moment and Afterlife of Heart of Darkness' in Conrad in the 21st Century, ed. AndreaWhite and Peter Mallios (2004) ; 'Reflections on The Excess of Empire in Tayib Salih"sSeason of Migration to the North', Paragraph : Special Issue on The Idea of the Literary, ed,Nicholas Harrison ( to be republished as a volume by Edinburgh University Press 2005/6);'Countercurrents and tensions in Said's Critical Practice', in Emancipation andRepresentation, ed. Adel Iskandar and Hakem Rustom, University of California Press,forthcoming 2005/6; 'The New South Africa : A Revolution Deferred', Journal ofPostcolonial Writing forthcoming 2005. Is currently preparing an essay on Albert Memmiand another on constructing an Aesthetics of 'Third World'/Postcolonial Literatures.
Paul Prescott, BA (Oxford), MA, PhD (Shakespeare Institute, Birmingham) – AssistantProfessor
My main research interests lie in Shakespeare in performance, theatre history, and the theoryand practice of arts criticism. I am currently working on Shakespeare and the Director, acollaboration with Dennis Kennedy for the Oxford University Press ‘Shakespeare Topics’series. Future plans include a stage history of Troilus and Cressida (Manchester UniversityPress), a chapter on Declan Donnellan and Cheek by Jowl (The Routledge Companion toDirectors’ Shakespeare), and an edited collection chronicling the RSC Complete Works ofShakespeare season.
I have taught and acted Shakespeare in the UK, Japan, and America. Since 2003, I haveworked extensively as actor-director and Associate Artist with the Palm Beach ShakespeareFestival, Florida.
Recent and forthcoming publications include:
- Shakespeare Handbooks: Richard III (Palgrave-Macmillan, general ed. John RussellBrown; April 2006) - Introduction to Coriolanus, New Penguin Shakespeare(revised edition, 2005) - ‘Inheriting the Globe: the Reception of Shakespearian Spaceand Audience in Contemporary Reviewing’, in the Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare andPerformance (eds. Barbara Hodgdon and W.B. Worthen) - ‘Hamlet: The Play in
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Performance’, New Penguin Shakespeare (revised edition, 2005) - ‘Doing All That BecomesA Man: The Reception and Afterlife of the Macbeth Actor, 1744-1889’, Shakespeare Survey57 (2004): 81-95.
John Rignall, MA (Cambridge), DPhil (Sussex) – Associate Professor (Reader)Nineteenth- and twentieth-century European fiction. He has published Realist Fiction and theStrolling Spectator (1992), George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda for Everyman Paperbacks (1999),George Eliot and Europe, a volume of essays by divers hands, including his ‘George Eliot,Balzac and Proust’, based on a Warwick conference (Scolar Press, 1997), and the OxfordReader’s Companion to George Eliot (2000), of which he is the general editor. He is co-editor of the George Eliot Review and is currently working on a monograph on George Eliotin relation to European fiction and culture.
Carol Chillington Rutter, MA, PhD (Michigan) - Professor
Renaissance theatre and performance, cultural representation, the social, political andeconomic location of theatre in culture, and the dialogue between performance and culture,both in a play’s original and its subsequent performance. She writes about Shakespeare andhis contemporaries on his stage and on ours, and specifically about the representation ofwomen’s roles - as in Clamorous Voices: Shakespeare’s Women Today (1988),and Enter theBody: Women and Representation on Shakespeare’s Stage and Documents of the RosePlayhouse (MUP, 1999), where her work is grounded in the intersecting critical discourses offeminism, cultural materialism, and performance studies. She also writes about film andpoetry. Her selection of the poems of Tony Harrison, Tony Harrison: Permanently Bard(Bloodaxe 1995) won the Heinemann Award, 1996.
Stephen Shapiro, MA, PhD (Yale), - Associate Professor
Writing and the culture of the United States, particularly pre-twentieth century; urban andspatial studies; British cultural studies; formations of gender and sexuality; literary theory;world-systems analyses. More broadly, late Enlightenment, 19th, and 20th century narrative.He is currently working on a monograph about the relation of Charles Brockden Brown’snovels to the trans-Atlantic economy of goods, people, and ideas and co-editing a collectionof essays on critical approaches to Brown. He has also written on issues of gentrification,moral panics, and drag. Future plans include a survey of Antonio Gramsci’s PrisonNotebooks.
Jeremy Treglown, FRSL, MA, BLitt (Oxford), PhD (London) – ProfessorChair of Warwick Writing Programme
Current and recent work is linked by a concern with the relations between social history andhigh culture in the twentieth century, especially the practicalities of authorship and the natureof the ‘literary establishment’, and the impact of the Second World War on fiction. Nextbook will be an authorized biography of the novelist and critic V.S. Pritchett. Recent projectsinclude Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green (Faber, 2000), introductions to all ofGreen’s novels (Harvill 1991-98), and, with Deborah McVea, Contributors to ‘The TimesLiterary Supplement’, 1902-74: A Biographical Index, published online as part of the ‘TLS’Centenary Archive (wwp.tls.psmedia.com, 2000)
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Jeremy Treglown was Editor of the TLS from 1981 to 1990. His other books include RoaldDahl: A Biography (Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994), an edited selection of theessays of Robert Louis Stevenson (Chatto & Windus/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988) and anedition of the letters of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (Basil Blackwell/Chicago UniversityPress, 1980).
Rashmi Varma, BA, MA (Delhi), PhD (University of Illinois, Chicago) – AssociateProfessor
Dr Rashmi Varma joined the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies atWarwick in January 2004. She is revising her book manuscript Unhomely Women: thePostcolonial City and it Subjects and co-editing the McGraw Hill Anthology of WomenWriting Globally in English. Her most recent publications include: “Provincializing theGlobal City: from Bombay to Mumbai” (Social Text, winter 2004); “Untimely Letters:Edward Said and the Politics of the Present” (Politics and Culture, January 2004) and“Fictions of Development” (essay in Amitava Kumar ed. World Bank Literature, Universityof Minnesota Press, 2002). Her essay “On Common Ground?: Critical Race Studies andFeminist Theory” is in The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theory, ed. Ellen Rooney(2005). Her current research projects include a book on the idea of the primitive incontemporary Indian culture and politics, an essay on the representation of the state inpostcolonial literatures, and a co-edited book with Subir Sinha entitled After SubalternStudies. She teaches courses in postcolonial literatures and theory, and feminist theory.
Christiania Whitehead, BA, DPhil (Oxford) – Associate Professor
Research interests: allegory in Latin, French and English, and in religious and courtlyliterature, from late antiquity until the end of the Middle Ages. Subsidiary interests indevotional writing by and for women in the vernacular (13th-15th centuries), and in theevolution of Arthurian literature from the medieval to the modern periods. Publicationsinclude: (co-ed. with Denis Renevey),Writing Religious Women: Spiritual and TextualPractices in Late Medieval England (2000); Castles of the Mind: A Study of MedievalArchitectural Allegory (2003), and a volume of poetry, The Garden of Slender Trust (1999).Currently working on a critical edition of the Middle English Doctrine of the Herte for ExeterMedieval Texts and Studies series.
Nicholas Monk – Director of Postgraduate Tutors
I am currently Research Fellow at The CAPITAL Centre. My interests are varied, but theprinciple focus at present is upon the relationship between pedagogy and performance. I am,for example, in the process of producing a longitudinal study of the compulsory Shakespearemodule for finalists at Warwick. Other interests include performance and performativity innative literatures, the literatures of the American Southwest, the “postsecular” in society, andtheories of modernity. Before receiving my PhD from Warwick I studied at RutgersUniversity in the US where I taught extensively and left with an MA in 2003. I havepublished on Cormac McCarthy and Leslie Silko. Next year I will be teaching boththe practical version of “Shakespeare and Selected Dramatists of His Time”,“Literature in the Modern World”, and a module of my own design, “Drama, Performance,and Identity post-1955”. 60% of the assessment for the latter will be based on a performance.
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A great deal of my work this year has been focused on interdisciplinarity in teaching andlearning, and I have organised a successful symposium on this, and arranged a number ofworkshops, facilitated by theatre practitioners, for students and teachers across the faculties.
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