ProfessorRichard Lansdown

After thirty years teaching in small English departments at provincial universities, I have done it all, from Beowulf to Martin Amis. But specifically: first year introductions to Critical Reading; Romanticism; Victorianism, women in the nineteenth-century novel, the eighteenth century, Modern drama from Ibsen to Mamet; 'strangers in the south seas'; the idea of the self in twentieth-century non-fiction from Edmund Gosse to Geoff Dyer; Shakespeare and the English Renaissance; and contemporary British Literature.

I have supervised dozens of MA theses in the Netherlands, on every subject under the sun—though mostly nineteenth- and twentieth-century English literature in its many varieties. I have also supervised PhD projects on topics like Walter Scott, Richard Lovelace, cyclones in Australian Literature, painting on the Pacific Rim, sleep in Shakespeare and Spenser, and the influence of Max Stirner on European and English literature.