Staff profiles

Professor Fulford is one of the leading proponents of the new, historicised critique of literature as applied to the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries (especially Romantic literature). He has written a series of internationally acclaimed authoritative works on poetry in relation to the politics of landscape (rural society), to issues of gender (in particular, the politicisation of masculinity) and to exploration, colonialism and science.

Currently, Professor Fulford is working on a critical study of representations of and also writings by Native Americans during the Romantic era.

Professor Fulford collaborates internationally and locally with a number of eminent scholars in the field: Professor Peter J Kitson of Dundee University and Professor Debbie Lee of Washington State University (exploration, science and colonialism); also Dr Lynda Pratt of Nottingham University (the work of poet Robert Southey).

Romantic Indians: Native Americans and British Literature 1756-1830, a forthcoming critical study (Oxford).
An edition of the letters of Robert Southey.

• External examiner for undergraduate English: College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth
• External examiner for English MA: University of Bristol
• External examiner for PhD: Universities of London, Birmingham, East Anglia, Bath
• Plenary speaker: 2001 Romantic Wales conference, University of Wales, 2002 Orientalism conference, University of Wales, 2005 annual conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (Montreal)
• Literature, Science and Exploration: Bodies of Knowledge (Cambridge, 2004).  A co-written critical study (with Debbie Lee and Peter J. Kitson)
• Robert Southey: Poetical Works (Pickering and Chatto, 2004). An edition: general editor Lynda Pratt

Research Students currently supervised and previously supervised have worked on Robert Southey, colonialism and exploration, Charles Lamb and periodical culture, Felicia Hemans, John Clare and landscape aesthetics.