Staff Profile

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I was awarded my AHRC-funded PhD at Newcastle University in 2017. My research is focussed on Romantic and eighteenth-century utopianism, the work of Percy Shelley, and utopian poetry more generally. In 2019-2020 I worked in collaboration with the British School at Rome on a British Academy-funded project, ‘Mobilising Utopia’.

Research Interests

Eighteenth-century and Romantic literature ∙ Shelley and his circle ∙ Utopian poetry ∙ Daydreaming and wishful thinking ∙ Romanticism and the future ∙ nineteenth-century radicalism ∙ the role of the poet ∙ speculative science fiction ∙ migration and mobility ∙ utopian or dystopian literature of any period

Stage One:

SEL1003: Introduction to Literary Studies II

SEL1023: Transformations

SEL1030: Close Reading

Stage Two:

SEL2203: Revolutionary Britain, 1789-1832

SEL2202: Writing New Worlds, 1660-1800

SEL2210: Independent Research Project

Stage Three:

SEL3362: Dissertation in English Literature

SEL3432: Unbinding Utopia (my stage 3 module)

PGT and PGR - MA Dissertations & I supervise MLitt students.

I lead Northern Bridge PhD Residential Summer Schools in Rome--based at the British School at Rome.

• Article

  • Quayle JAD. ‘Directing the ‘Unfinished Scene’: Utopia and the Role of the Poet in Shelley’s Hellas’. Romanticism 2020, 26(3).