Postgraduate Prospectus 2011

Aberystwyth University - ABWTH A40English and Creative Writing 61Matthew Francis(Reader)Teaches CreativeWriting. Author ofa novel, WHOM (Bloomsbury, 1989) and fourcollections of poetry, Blizzard (Faber, 1996),Dragons (Faber, 2001), Whereabouts (rufus books,2005) and Mandeville (Faber, 2008). Currentlyworking on a collection of short stories, Singinga Man to Death, and a novel, The Book of theNeedle. He also has a research interest in theScottish poet W S Graham; he is the editor ofGraham’s New Collected Poems (Faber, 2004) andauthor of a monograph, Where the People Are:Language and Community in the Poetry of W SGraham (Salt Publishing,2004).Helena Grice (SeniorLecturer)Main teaching andresearch interests liein American literature,especially Asian Americanwomen’s writing, AfricanAmerican writing,women’s autobiographyand feminist theory, andtwentieth-century American literature. She isthe author of Negotiating Identities (MUP 2002),and Maxine Hong Kingston (MUP, 2005), andco-author, with Martin Padget, Maria Lauretand Candida Hepworth, of Beginning EthnicAmerican Literatures (MUP 2001), and co-editorwith Tim Woods of “I’m Telling You Stories”:Jeanette Winterson and the Politics of Reading(Rodopi, 1998). Her most recent publication isAsian American Encounters on the InternationalStage: Readings in Fiction and History (Routledge,2009).Kelly Grovier (Lecturer)Poet, biographer, and Romanticist. Author ofA Lens in the Palm (Carcanet, 2008), The Gaol(John Murray, 2008) – selected as BBC Radio4 Book of the Week – and Travels of the Mind:‘Walking’ Stewart and the Making of Wordsworth’sImagination (Liverpool University Press, 2010).Co-founder of the scholarly journal EuropeanRomantic Review and regular contributor to TheTimes Literary Supplement and The Observer.Kelly’s chief teaching interests lie in poetry, thevisual arts, and British Romanticism.Sarah Hutton (Professor)Main research interests in Renaissance andseventeenth-century literature and intellectualhistory, including Platonism, the CambridgePlatonists, women and science, and philosophy.Her interests also extend to biography andtextual editing. Her publications includePlatonism at the Origins of Modernity (2008),Benjamin Furly (2007), Anne Conway (2004),Newton and Newtonianism (ed. with James EForce, 2004), Women, Science and Medicine (ed.with Lynette Hunter, 1996), Platonism and theEnglish Imagination (ed. with Anna Baldwin,1994), as well as articles on Margaret Cavendish,Emilie Du Châtelet, and Catharine Macaulay.She coordinates the AHRC research networkon Anglo-French Intellectual and Culturalinterchange. She is Director of the seriesInternational Archives of the History of Ideas.Richard Marggraf-Turley (Reader andCo-Director of the Centre for RomanticStudies)Main teaching and research interests inRomantic and Victorian literature. Richardhas published widely on John Keats, LeighHunt and Alfred Tennyson, and is the authorof Writing Essays (Routledge, 2000), andthree monographs: The Politics of Languagein Romantic Literature (Palgrave, 2002), Keats’sBoyish Imagination (Routledge, 2004), and BrightStars: John Keats, Barry Cornwall and RomanticLiterary Culture (Liverpool University Press, 2009).He is also co-editor with Damian Walford Daviesof The Monstrous Debt: Modalities of RomanticInfluence in Twentieth-Century Literature (WayneState University Press, 2005). His creativewriting publications include three volumes ofpoetry: Whiteout, co-authored with DamianWalford Davies (Parthian, 2006), The Fossil-Box(Cinnamon, 2008), and Wan-Hu’s Flying Chair(Salt, 2009). He is a regular guest on radio artsmagazines, including Radio 3’s The Verb. In 2007,Richard won theKeats-Shelley Prize forPoetry.Louise Marshall(Lecturer)Teaches eighteenthcenturyliterature andliterary theory. Her mainresearch interests are inearly eighteenth-centurydrama, representationsof Britishness, women’swriting and literary adaptation. She is theauthor of National Myth and Imperial Fantasy:Representations of British Identity on the EarlyEighteenth-Century Stage (Palgrave, 2008), whichexamines a group of history plays that contributeto eighteenth-century debates regardingBritishness, colonial identity and Britain’s place ina world of commercial and imperial possibilities.She is currently working on a project examiningthe authorised and illegitimate spaces allocatedto women in eighteenth-century writing.Martin Padget (Senior Lecturer)Teaches a wide range of topics in English,American Studies and World Literatures. Hehas published books and essays on Americanliterature, the literary and cultural history ofthe American Southwest, American film,the history of photography (particularly theUS and Scotland) and American and Britishtravel writing. Author of Indian Country: Travelsin the American Southwest (University of NewMexico Press, 2004) and Photographers of theWestern Isles (Birlinn, 2010). He is also co-authorof Beginning Ethnic American Literatures(Manchester University Press, 2001). Martinis currently writing an introduction to NativeAmerican literature for Cambridge UniversityPress.