Professor of English, primarily engaged in teaching, researching and developing his subject. Professor Goodridge's special interests as a lecturer include poetry, eighteenth and nineteenth century literature, Romanticism, recovery research, labouring-class poets especially John Clare, and a range of modern and contemporary writings including writers on the Spanish Civil War, the poet Tony Harrison, and the novelist Philip K. Dick (He runs an annual ‘PKD-Day’ at NTU). Professor Goodridge is also the Editorial Director of the research publication imprint, Trent Editions and is an internal advisor on NTU’s REF research assessment presentation.
After working in transport and commerce for some years Professor Goodridge took his first and higher degrees at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. During his doctoral research he worked on transcribing the manuscripts of Sir Walter Scott as an assistant for the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, and as an Oxford-based MHRA Research Fellow cataloguing and describing the manuscripts of Allan Ramsay for the Index of English Literary Manuscripts. Professor Goodridge was the Lord Adams Fellow at Newcastle University for 1991-93, working on an edition of John Dyer’s georgic poem The Fleece (1757).
Professor Goodridge's principal publications include monographs on eighteenth century rural poetry and on John Clare and community. He is the General Editor of two three-volume series of anthologies of labouring-class poetry, and has edited and written extensively on eighteenth and nineteenth century poetry, including work on the poets Robert Bloomfield, Thomas Chatterton, John Clare, Mary Collier, Stephen Duck, John Dyer, John Philips and Allan Ramsay. Professor Goodridge is currently working on a series of essays and a co-authored monograph on labour in labouring-class poetry, and on a book chapter on ‘Late Clare and the Meanings of “Madness”’, with a second monograph on Clare as a longer-term aim.
Opportunities to carry out postgraduate research towards an MPhil / PhD exist and further information may be obtained from the NTU Graduate School.
Selected publications
- John Clare and the Community. Goodridge J, 2012
- Hell, Hull and Halifax: John Dyer Visits the Workhouse. Goodridge J, 2012
- A Bio-Bibliographical Database of British and Irish Labouring-Class Poets 1700-1900, Goodridge J, 2012
- Labouring Class Poetry. Goodridge J, Teaching Romanticism, 2010, 11-23
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