Prof Richard Marggraf Turley
BA, PhD (Leeds)
Personal Chair
Department of English & Creative Writing
Contact Details
- Email: rcm@aber.ac.uk
- Office: D66, Hugh Owen Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 622531
- Research Portal Profile
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- EN21220 - Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
- ENM1520 - Romantic Radical Cultures
- WL35320 - Literatures of Surveillance
- EN30520 - Romantic Eroticism
Lecturer
- EN11320 - Critical Practice
- ENM0560 - Master's Dissertation
- PGM1610 - Public Engagement and Impact
- ENM3020 - Research and Project Planning
- WL20720 - A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s
- ENM1220 - Postwar American Fiction
- EN30820 - Haunting Texts
- WR32620 - Writing Music
Tutor
- EN21220 - Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
- PGM2310 - Research Skills and Personal Development (Science) (2310)
- ENM1520 - Romantic Radical Cultures
- PGM2210 - Research Skills and Personal Development (Arts and Humanities) (2210)
- EN30040 - Undergraduate Dissertation
Coordinator
- EN30520 - Romantic Eroticism
- ENM1520 - Romantic Radical Cultures
- EN21220 - Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
- WL35320 - Literatures of Surveillance
Moderator
Professor Richard Marggraf Turley teaches across the department's Literary Studies and Creative Writing schemes. His option modules currently include EN38320: Romantic Eroticism, EN35320: Literatures of Surveillance and ENM2540: Romanticism's Radical Cultures. He supervises Literary Studies and Creative Writing PhDs.
Research
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). 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.