Dr Malte Urban MA (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), PhD (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), PGCHET (Queen's University, Belfast), Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Senior Lecturer in English Literature
Department of English & Creative Writing
Contact Details
- Email: mau5@aber.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0003-2506-4943
- Office: D67, Hugh Owen Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 621781
- Twitter: @econfessio
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=XexC7GoAAAAJ
- Research Portal Profile
Profile
My primary research focus is late medieval secular literature, especially the works by Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower. My monograph Fragments: Past and Present in Chaucer and Gower (Peter Lang, 2009) focusses mainly on their use and appropriation of their cultural past(s), which also informs a section in my edited collection on the works of John Gower (Brepols, 2009). More recently, I have developed two further research interests that complement this main strand: medievalism and digital humanities. The former concentrates on Chaucer’s cultural afterlives, especially in cyberspace and on screen [in Chaucer’s Poetry: Words, authority and ethics (Four Courts, 2012), while the latter explores the potentials of electronic editing and text mining for our engagement with late medieval texts, using Gower’s Confessio amantis as its central object. My teaching cuts across these three areas, concentrating on English literature of the late medieval period while looking beyond this into the Early Modern period and further towards the 21st century.
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- ENM1120 - Medieval Dreams and Marvels
- EN23120 - In the Olde Days: Medieval Texts and Their World
- EN10220 - Ancestral Voices
- WL30620 - Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
- EN11520 - The Beginning of the English Language
- ENM0920 - 21st-Century Medievalisms
Coordinator
- EN23120 - In the Olde Days: Medieval Texts and Their World
- ENM1120 - Medieval Dreams and Marvels
- WL30620 - Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
- EN10220 - Ancestral Voices
- ENM0920 - 21st-Century Medievalisms
- EN11520 - The Beginning of the English Language
Attendance Dept Admin
- EN11220 - American Literature 1819-1925
- EN11620 - Critical Practice
- EN21020 - Literary Geographies
- PGM1810 - Ways of Working
- WL30620 - Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
- WR10020 - Reading for Writers
- WR32120 - Writing and Place
- CL10120 - Greek and Roman Epic and Drama
- EN20120 - Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
- EN21220 - Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
- EN28720 - Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
- EN30040 - Undergraduate Dissertation
- EN30420 - Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
- EN33320 - Speculative Fiction and the Climate Crisis
- ENM1720 - Sensational Sales: Victorian Popular Literature 1848-1894
- WR31220 - Poetry for today
- EN10220 - Ancestral Voices
- EN19920 - Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
- ENM0920 - 21st-Century Medievalisms
- ENM1220 - Postwar American Fiction
- ENM1520 - Romantic Radical Cultures
- ENM1820 - Writing Ireland, Writing Wales
- ENM3020 - Research and Project Planning
- PGM2910 - Research Writing Programme
- WR21720 - Shaping Plots
- WR30040 - The Writing Project
- WR32620 - Writing Music
- WRM6620 - Writer as Professional
- CL20320 - Classical Drama and Myth
- ENM0220 - Queer and Now: 100 years of Queer Writing
- WL10420 - Introduction to Poetry
- WL20720 - A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
- WL32220 - Reading and Writing Science Fiction
- WR32420 - Writing Crime Fiction
- WRM6060 - Writer as Practitioner 2
- WRM6240 - Writer as Professional
- WRM6420 - Writing Poetry: Modes in Contemporary Poetry
- EN21120 - Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
- EN23420 - Demons, Degenerates and New Women (Fin de Siecle Fictions)
- EN30320 - Victorian Childhoods
- ENM0560 - Master's Dissertation
- ENM1120 - Medieval Dreams and Marvels
- WL10120 - Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
- WL35320 - Literatures of Surveillance
- WR10220 - Critical Perspectives on Creative Writing
- WR10420 - Introduction to Poetry
- WR11320 - Creative Practice
- WR21120 - Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
- WR22120 - Adventures with Poetry
- WR32320 - Kapow! Reading and Writing Graphic Narratives
- WR32720 - Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science
- WRM6320 - Writer as Scholar
- EN11520 - The Beginning of the English Language
- EN30520 - Romantic Eroticism
- EN31320 - The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920a
- ENM1620 - Women, Fiction and Female Community, 1660-1792
- WR20620 - Writing Selves
- WR32820 - Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
- WRM6140 - Writer as Practitioner 1
- EN10520 - Contemporary Writing
- EN11320 - Critical Practice
- EN20920 - Literary Modernisms
- EN21620 - Contemporary Queer Fiction
- EN22920 - Literature since 1945
- EN30120 - Reading Theory / Reading Text
- PGM1610 - Public Engagement and Impact
- WL11420 - Literature And The Sea
- WL20220 - Reading and Writing Fantasy Fiction
- WL20320 - Short stories: Grit and Candour
- EN22120 - Place and Self
- EN23120 - In the Olde Days: Medieval Texts and Their World
- EN30820 - Haunting Texts
- PGM0410 - Ways of Reading
- WR20220 - Beginning the Novel
- WR31820 - Crisis Writing
Blackboard Dept Admin
- EN20120 - Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
- EN23120 - In the Olde Days: Medieval Texts and Their World
- ENM0560 - Master's Dissertation
- ENM1120 - Medieval Dreams and Marvels
- WL20220 - Reading and Writing Fantasy Fiction
- WR21120 - Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
- WR32620 - Writing Music
- WRM6140 - Writer as Practitioner 1
- EN19920 - Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change
- EN23420 - Demons, Degenerates and New Women (Fin de Siecle Fictions)
- EN30520 - Romantic Eroticism
- ENM3020 - Research and Project Planning
- PGM2910 - Research Writing Programme
- WR10020 - Reading for Writers
- WR11320 - Creative Practice
- WR32720 - Big Ideas: Writing Popular Science
- WRM6420 - Writing Poetry: Modes in Contemporary Poetry
- WRM6620 - Writer as Professional
- EN11620 - Critical Practice
- EN21120 - Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis
- EN21220 - Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
- ENM1220 - Postwar American Fiction
- ENM1620 - Women, Fiction and Female Community, 1660-1792
- EN11220 - American Literature 1819-1925
- EN20920 - Literary Modernisms
- EN21620 - Contemporary Queer Fiction
- EN22920 - Literature since 1945
- EN30320 - Victorian Childhoods
- EN30820 - Haunting Texts
- ENM1520 - Romantic Radical Cultures
- WL10420 - Introduction to Poetry
- WL30620 - Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
- WL32220 - Reading and Writing Science Fiction
- WR20220 - Beginning the Novel
- WR20620 - Writing Selves
- WR30040 - The Writing Project
- WR31220 - Poetry for today
- WR31820 - Crisis Writing
- WRM6060 - Writer as Practitioner 2
- WRM6240 - Writer as Professional
- CL20320 - Classical Drama and Myth
- EN10220 - Ancestral Voices
- EN30420 - Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
- EN33320 - Speculative Fiction and the Climate Crisis
- ENM0220 - Queer and Now: 100 years of Queer Writing
- ENM1820 - Writing Ireland, Writing Wales
- WL35320 - Literatures of Surveillance
- WR22120 - Adventures with Poetry
- EN21020 - Literary Geographies
- EN22120 - Place and Self
- EN28720 - Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
- EN30040 - Undergraduate Dissertation
- EN31320 - The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920a
- ENM1720 - Sensational Sales: Victorian Popular Literature 1848-1894
- PGM0410 - Ways of Reading
- WR32120 - Writing and Place
- WR32320 - Kapow! Reading and Writing Graphic Narratives
- WRM6320 - Writer as Scholar
- EN10520 - Contemporary Writing
- EN11320 - Critical Practice
- EN30120 - Reading Theory / Reading Text
- ENM0920 - 21st-Century Medievalisms
- WL10120 - Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature
- WR10420 - Introduction to Poetry
- WR21720 - Shaping Plots
- CL10120 - Greek and Roman Epic and Drama
- EN11520 - The Beginning of the English Language
- PGM1610 - Public Engagement and Impact
- PGM1810 - Ways of Working
- WL11420 - Literature And The Sea
- WL20320 - Short stories: Grit and Candour
- WL20720 - A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
- WR10220 - Critical Perspectives on Creative Writing
- WR32420 - Writing Crime Fiction
- WR32820 - Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
EN11300/EN11320 (Critical Practice)
EN10220 (Ancestral Voices)
EN11520 (The Beginnings of the English Language)
EN22120 (Place and Self)
EN30620 (Remix: Chaucer in the Then and Now)
ENM0920 (21st-Century Medievalisms)
ENM1120 (Medieval Dreams and Marvels)
Responsibilities
Associate Dean (FASS) for Learning, Teaching and Student Experience (FASS pages)