Prof Richard Marggraf Turley

BA, PhD (Leeds)

Module Coordinator

• AB2 Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century (EN21220)
• AB1 Romantic Radical Cultures (ENM1520)
• AB2 Literatures of Surveillance (WL35320)

Lecturer

• AB1 A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s (WL20720)
• AB1 Critical Practice (EN11320)
• AB1 Haunting Texts (EN30820)
• AB1 Independent Research Project (WL30140)
• AB1 Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues (EN20120)
• AB1 Postwar American Fiction (ENM1220)
• AB2 Public Engagement and Impact (PGM1610)
• AB1 Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature (WL10120)
• AB2 Research and Project Planning (ENM3020)
• AB2 Writing Music (WR32620)

Moderator

• AB1 Crisis Writing (WR31820)
• AB1 Literature since the '60s (EN22920)

Tutor

• AB2 Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century (EN21220)
• AB1 Research Skills and Personal Development (Arts and Humanities) (2210) (PGM2210)
• AB1 Research Skills and Personal Development (Science) (2310) (PGM2310)
• AB1 Romantic Radical Cultures (ENM1520)

Richard is author of several books on the Romantics, including Keats's Boyish Imagination (2004), Bright Stars: John Keats, Barry Cornwall and Romantic Literary Culture (2009) and (ed.) Keats's Places (2018). His new book, Fantastic Shapes: Topology and Textuality in Romantic Poetry, is forthcoming in 2026. He is also co-author of a wide-ranging study, Food and the Literary Imagination (2014). He is the winner of the 2007 "Keats-Shelley Prize" for poetry, and won the 2010 Wales Book of the Year "People's Choice" for his poetry collection, Wan Hu's Flying Chair (2009). Richard has been involved in several collaborative Arts-Science projects, and is a regular guest on BBC arts and culture programmes. He is also author of a crime novel set in 1810, The Cunning House (2015), and Writing Essays: A Guide for Students in English and the Humanities, 2nd edn (2016). He is Co-Director of the Keats Foundation International Keats Conference.