Prize will fund literary research for York scholar
Posted on 20 November 2007
I’m thrilled and honoured to have won this award
Dr Matthew Bevis
Dr Matthew Bevis was one of only six recipients this year of Leverhulme Prizes for Modern European Languages and Literature. The prizes are awarded to younger scholars who have made a substantial and recognised contribution to their field of study at an international level. Dr Bevis will use his award to research a new book, The Sense of Humour: Poetic Comedies from Wordsworth to Eliot. He is already working on a series of articles on Byron, Edward Lear and Tennyson as part of this project.
He is also co-editing the first complete scholarly and fully-annotated edition of The Novels of Thomas Love Peacock.
"I’m thrilled and honoured to have won this award, and I’m very much looking forward to working on the book," he said.
Dr Bevis joined the University’s Department of English and Related Literature in September 2005. He completed a BA at Bristol University, before studying for an MPhil in European Romanticism from Glasgow and Bologna, and a PhD at Cambridge. He later taught at Oxford before taking up a lectureship at Sheffield in 2001.
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Notes to editors:
- For more information on the Philip Leverhulme Prizes and the Leverhulme Trust go to www.leverhulme.ac.uk
- The Department of English at the University of York is recognised as one of the top six English departments in the country. It was awarded a 5*A ranking by the the last Research Assessment Exercise. It has over 40 members of academic staff from across the world, making it one of the country’s largest and most active English departments.