Paul Wright

Part-time Lecturer
Lecturer Paul Wright Headshot

Background

Dr Paul Wright holds a PhD in Keats and Medicine. He has taught and undertaken a variety of roles at UWTSD for over 25 years, including contributing to the creation of one of the first MA programmes in Creative Writing in Wales. He has extensive experience in programme development and management, as well as in working with external bodies on projects relating to creative practice. He is currently a part-time lecturer, contributing to programmes in English and Creative Writing at all levels, from foundation to PhD.

Specialist Subjects

  • Creative Writing
  • Romantic Poetry
  • Literature and Medicine

Professional and/or Research Experience

He holds a PhD in Keats and Medicine and has published work on Romanticism, Contemporary Literature, and Literature and Science.

Qualifications

  • Phd Keats and Medicine (Hull University, 1995)
  • MA Romantic Literature (York University 1990)
  • BA First Class English Literature and Language (Hull University 1989)

Languages Spoken

English
Basic French

Professional Membership or Roles

He is a Fellow of the HEA and has been a member of BARS (the British Association for Romantic Studies), the British Association of New Zealand Studies, and Academi
From 2000 to 2006, he served as Reviews Editor for the British Review of New Zealand Studies and was a member of its editorial board
He is also a member of NAWE (the National Association of Writers in Education) and has acted as a reader for UWP, the Arts and Books Councils of Wales, and the Modern Language Review

Academic Teaching

Professional Publications

  • The Poems of John Keats (Wordsworth Classics, 2001)
  • Don Juan and Other Poems (Wordsworth Classics, 2005)
  • Vile Saxons and Ancient Britons: Wordsworth, the ambivalent Welsh tourist' in Dangerous Diversity ed. Gramich & Hiscock (UWP 1998)
  • 'Longinus' and 'Milton as Translator' in Literary Translation ed. Olive Classe (Fitzroy Dearborn 2000)
  • ‘Oscar Wilde’ and ‘George Bernard Shaw’ in Literary Modernism ed. Paul Poplawski (Greenwood 2002)
  • 'From Kbblamm to Splat: The Graphic Novel' Books in Wales 3/96
  • ‘O for a Life of Sensations’ or the Internal and External Parts’: Keats and Medical Materialism in Paul Poplawski ed. Studying English Literature in Context (CUP, 2022)

Available to Supervise Doctoral Students

Yes