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Staff Profile

Dr Mark Byers

Lecturer

Background

Qualifications

DPhil in English, Balliol College, Oxford

MSt in English (1900-Present), Balliol College, Oxford

BA (Hons) English Literature, Durham University

Research

Research Interests

My work to date concerns 'later' modernisms, primarily in poetry. My first monograph, Charles Olson and American Modernism: The Practice of the Self (OUP 2018), investigated the ‘remaking’ of literary and visual modernism in the first decade after 1945, reading the work of American poet Charles Olson alongside contemporary American painting and music. I have written on several other aspects of late modernist poetry, including questions of attention, language, and media change in American 'Language' writing and the work of poets R.F. Langley and Tom Raworth.

Current Research

I am currently completing an edition of the letters of Tom Raworth, a project supported by a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant. Recently, I began work on a new project on British Surrealism which will trace the emergence of the movement through the lives of five British Surrealist poets and artists. 

Postgraduate Supervision 

I welcome inquiries from prospective research students in any of my areas of expertise.

Teaching

I am module leader for American Poetry Now (SEL3397, semester 1) and Modernisms (SEL2207, semester 2).

Publications