Professors Emeriti and Honorary Fellows

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Derek Attridge was educated in South Africa and England, and has taught in England, Scotland, France, and the U.S.A. Among his research interests are South African literature, Joyce, deconstruction and literary theory, and the performance of poetry.

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David Attwell has published on anglophone African literatures and postcolonial studies. With Derek Attridge he co-edited The Cambridge History of South African Literature (2012), the first comparative literary history of the country’s democratic era, covering all the major languages. He collaborated with J.M. Coetzee on Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews (1992) and has published two monographs on the Nobel laureate, J. M. Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing (1993) and J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing (2015), which was short-listed for the Alan Paton Prize. He lives in Cape Town.  

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After retirement from teaching Anglo-Saxon at York, Sid Bradley has continued as co-editor of the Copenhagen journal Grundtvig-Studier, published a book on the 19th-century Danish poet, historian and theologian N. F. S. Grundtvig and articles on Grundtvig’s reception of Anglo-Saxondom, and lectured on this subject, most recently in Denmark, America and Ireland.

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Harriet Guest's research interests centre on British Literature and culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.  Since retirement she has continued to research her abiding interests in early British seaside resorts and women writers, and has recently published essays on Bognor and on Frances Burney at Teignmouth.

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Hugh Haughton works in the field of modernism, modern poetry and poetics; the literature of nonsense; letters and life-writing; and twentieth-century Irish literature. He is the author of The Poetry of Derek Mahon (OUP, 2007), the first full-scale study of a major contemporary Irish poet, as well as numerous essays on twentieth-century poetry.

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Nicholas R. Havely has principal research interests in English-Italian literary relations, translation and travel-writing. He has recently published two edited collections of essays on reception of Dante in the nineteenth century (2011 and 2012) and a study of Dante's British readers and public (2014).

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David Moody's earlier interests are represented by his books Virginia Woolf (1963) and Shakespeare's ‘The Merchant of
Venice'; (1964); by articles on Samuel Johnson's poetry and Henry James's novels; by two books of verse, At the Antipodes: Homage to Paul Valéry (1982) and News Odes: The El Salvador Sequence (1984); and by his books on T .S. Eliot, Thomas Stearns Eliot: Poet (1979, 1994) and Tracing T.S. Eliot's Spirit: essays on his poetry and thought (1996). He also edited ‘The Waste Land’ in Different Voices: lectures given at the University of York in the fiftieth year of ‘The Waste Land’ (1974) and The Cambridge Companion to T.S. Eliot (1994).

On Ezra Pound, his main later interest, he has published numerous articles, and a three volume critical biography of the poet: Ezra Pound: Poet. A Portrait of the Man & His Work – I. The Young Genius 1885-1920 (2007), II.The Epic Years: 1921-1939 (2014) and III. The Tragic Years, 1939-1972 (2015). He also edited, with Mary de Rachewiltz and Joanna Moody, Ezra Pound to His Parents. Letters 1895-1929 (2010).

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Linne Mooney was Professor of Medieval English Palaeography in the Department and at the Centre for Medieval Studies. She remains research active in her field of late medieval English manuscripts, especially specialising in the scribes of major works of Middle English literature. She maintains the web sites

Late Medieval Scribes (medievalscribes.com) with Simon Horobin and Digital Index of Middle English Verse (DIMEV.net) with Daniel Mosser.

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Graham Parry has written a number of books about the cultural history of the seventeenth century, and in recent years turned to the study of the antiquaries of early modern England. He also has strong interests in Victorian cultural life, and is active in Ruskin’s Guild of St George, the Pugin Society, and the Sydney Smith Association. In addition, he is much involved in the activities of the York Bibliographical Society.

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Adam Phillips is an author and a psychoanalyst in private practice in London. He is the author of twelve highly praised books on literature, history, philosophy, child psychology, biography and psychoanalysis. Adam makes three visits a year, during which he gives lectures and participates in seminars, and is available for individual consultation.

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Felicity Riddy has published extensively on a wide range of subjects relating to the literature and culture of England and Scotland in the later Middle Ages.  

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John Roe's main research areas are Shakespeare, and English and Italian Renaissance literature.  His publications include The Poems of Shakespeare (an edition) and Shakespeare and Machiavelli.  He has a keen interest in modern American poetry and has also contributed 'John Berryman' to the Continuuum 'Great Shakespeareans' series.  An abiding passion is the work of the novelist Anthony Powell, and he is a trustee of the Anthony Powell Society.  Following his retirement from York he has taught in Germany at the University of the Saarland.

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Gillian Russell is an expert on British and Irish literature and culture of the period 1730-1830, focusing on theatre, gender, sociability, war studies, and print culture, especially the history of printed ephemera.  

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Nicole Ward Jouve is Emerita Professor of Literature at the University of York, has published fiction and essays in English and French, and has research interests in psychoanalysis, spirituality and self-development, and writing family memoirs as well as fiction.

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Judith Woolf's main academic research areas are twentieth-century Italian-Jewish writers, especially Primo Levi and Natalia Ginzburg; life-writing, especially in relation to the Holocaust; and narrative patterns in European literature. She is a translator from both Italian and Old Icelandic, and her publications as a creative writer include poetry, music theatre and fiction.