Name: Stephen Thomas Knight
Born: Bournemouth, U.K.
Citizenship: British
Marital Status: Married to Margaret Quinn Sams; two
children, Elizabeth Bronwen, David Stephen
Home city: Melbourne, Australia
Email: stephen.knight at unimelb.edu.au
Educated: Bournemouth Grammar School, 1951-59
Jesus College, Oxford,
B.A., 1962, M.A. 1966
University of Sydney,
Ph.D., 1967
Honours: Cyfaill
y Celtiaid, Sydney, 1985
Ned
Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award, 2002
International
Mythopoeic Society Award for Non-Fiction, 2005
James
Randall Leader Prize for best Arthurian essay in a US publication, 2011
Fellow of the Australian
Academy of the Humanities, 1990-
Fellow
of the English Association, 1999-
Employment: University of Sydney: Teaching Fellow,
1963
Lecturer,
1964-7
Senior
Lecturer, 1970-74
Associate
Professor, 1975-86
Australian
National University: Lecturer, 1968-9
University
of Melbourne: Robert Wallace Professor of English, 1987-92, Head of Department,
1989-92
De
Montfort University, Leicester: Professor in English and Head of Department of
English, Media and Cultural Studies, 1992-94
University
of Wales, Cardiff: Professor of English 1994-2005; Head of English Literature,
1994-2002; Head of School of English, Communication and Philosophy 1995-7.
Distinguished Research Professor in English Literature, 2005-11
University
of Melbourne, Honorary Research Professor in English Literature 2011-13; Vice-Chancellor’s
Research Fellow, 2013-15
Societies: New Chaucer Society ;
International
Arthurian Society;
International
Association for Robin Hood Studies.
Association for the
Study of Welsh Literature in English
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
I have
lectured and tutored at all levels from very large first year lectures (up to
four hundred students) to small specialist classes for senior year and postgraduate
students. Subjects covered include medieval literature and language; language
studies; Arthurian legend; Robin Hood tradition; critical theory; fiction from
the eighteenth century to the present, with specialist courses on crime
fiction, industrial fiction, Welsh fiction in English and Australian literature.
Postgraduate
supervision and assessment has been a major feature, including the
co-ordination of the research programmes at Melbourne and De Montfort and being
Director of Research in English Literature at Cardiff. I have supervised 35 successful
PhDs and examined over 70 (50 of them externally). I have substantial
experience in both organising and contributing to postgraduate training courses
at Masters and Doctorate level. I have also acted for many years as research
mentor and appraiser to colleagues at all levels, and have regularly managed
and advised on promotion procedures on behalf of colleagues.
My undergraduate
courses have frequently been cross-disciplinary, and at times taught jointly with
staff from other departments, particularly History and Media Studies.
Developing courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level has been a regular
activity, with on average a new course established each year through my career.
I have been external Examiner at Flinders University (BA) 1976-7, Swansea (MA)
1993-5, Southampton (MA) 1994-8, Lancaster (BA) 1995-8, Edinburgh (BA)
1997-2000, Royal Holloway London (MA) 1997-2000, Queen Mary and Westfield London
(BA), 1999-2003, York (MA) 2000-3. I have had extensive involvement with
Continuing Education/Lifelong Learning courses.
I have been
invited as Visiting Professor at Kent (1994), Santiago (1997), Tuebingen
(1998), Nantes (2001), Swansea (2002-5), Rossell Hope Robbins visiting
lecturer, Rochester University, New York, 1995; Joseph Schick visiting
lecturer, Terre Haute, Indiana, 2005, Lansdowne Lecturer Victoria University, BC,
2012. I have been invited plenary speaker at Boulder (1996), Cheltenham (1996),
Oxford (1997), Sydney (1997), Rochester (1997), Reading (1998), Germersheim
(1998), London (1999), Kalamazoo (1999), York (2000), Cambridge (2001), London
(2002), Canberra (2004), Frankfurt (2004), Exeter (2005), Delaware (2005),
Warwick (2006), Limerick (2007), Perth (2007), Newcastle (2008), Cardiff (2009),
Perth (2011), Toronto (2012).
This CV
does not list unpublished conference and seminar papers given: these average
about three or four annually; in the last decade papers have been given by
invitation at Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stirling, Newcastle, York, Warwick,
Birmingham, London, Bristol, Bath,
Swansea, Lampeter, Galway, Trefforest, Gregynog, Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Houston,
Columbus (Ohio), Kalamazoo, Newark (Del.), Rochester (NY), Vancouver, Winnipeg,
Bologna, Malta, Naples, Uppsala, Regensburg, Rostock.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
In the
pedagogical context, establishing, supervising and assessing a wide range of
courses; in the administrative context, departmental committees of all kinds,
especially Research, Curriculum and Staff-Student Relations; Faculty and School
committees including Management, Policy, Library, Equipment, Franchise, Budget
and Research; Academic Board and Senate committees including Ph.D., Research,
Continuing Education, Quality of Education, Estates, Academic Services.
At
Melbourne elected Deputy Dean, 1989-90, with special responsibility for inquiry
into Staff-Student ratios and also chaired an inquiry into European language
teaching in the Faculty; Acting Dean for period in 1990. Head of Department of
English 1988-91; chair of university's Theatre Board and board member of
Melbourne Theatre Company; to the end of 1989 board member of Victorian
Libraries Cooperation Agency and of Australian Book Review. External
Reviewer for Departments of English at Universities of Western Australia and
Auckland. Member, Australian Vice-Chancellors' Subject Panel, English, 1991.
At De
Montfort, Subject Leader in English and Head of Department, chair of School
Research Committee controlling allotted research budget (including for Fine
Arts, Music and Performance), chair of working party on absorption of Modern
Languages into School, and on working party on Jain Studies; Course Leader for
new European M.A. in co-operation with Tillburg Academy, Holland and University
of Granada, Spain. External member, School of Design Audit; member of DVC's
Working Party on Graduate Studies.
At Cardiff,
Head of English Literature Section controlling teaching, research and allotted
budgets 1994-2002; Head of School of English, Communications and Philosophy
1995-7, administering School of 1500 FTE and fully devolved budget; experience
on School and University Committees, including Library Allocations Working
Party, Teaching and Learning Committee, Validation Committee (International),
Estates Committee, Academic Services Committee, Senate Standing Committee.
Drafted Research submissions for 1996 Research Assessment for English,
Philosophy and Media Studies, and for English in 2001 and 2008. Quality
Assessment Mentor for European Languages, Biology, Accounting and Education; research
mentor for Welsh; external member, quality review of Finance Department;
member, Council for Lifelong Learning; member, committee on External Examining;
chair, Validation Panel for Journalism MA degrees.
In national
terms, Subject Specialist on HEFCE Teaching Quality Assessment, UK 1994-5 and
member of National Overview writing panel (drafted Aims and Curricula section).
Member, U.K. Graduate Council committee on Taught Masters Degrees, 1995-6, and
Schools Curriculum Authority Working Parties on GCSE English and A Level
English, 1997-8, 2000 and 2001. Elected to Executive of Council for College and
University English, 1998-2000; co-ordinated CCUE response to Research
Assessment Exercise proposals for 2001. Member of British national Research
Assessment Panel (English), 2001 and 2008; member REF Impact Pilot Panel
(English), 2010; external reviewer, English Department, University of Wales,
Swansea, 2002; research reviewer, Stirling University 2004; evaluator, national
English Subject Centre, 2005; REF assessor and advisor, University of East
Anglia, 2010; Northampton University, 2011; Queen Mary, London, 2011; University
of Aberystwyth, 2011- ; University of Central England, 2011- ; De Montfort
University, 2011- ; Director, University
of Wales Press, 2003-05; on editorial board of New Welsh Review (2004-7),
Clues, British Journal of Australian Studies, Sydney Medieval
Studies, continuing.
In
international terms, elected trustee of New Chaucer Society, 2000-04; joint Secretary-Treasurer
of International Association for Robin Hood Studies, 1998- present; PhD
examiner, Uppsala, 2000 and 2001, Valladolid, 2007; co-coordinator and visiting
lecturer, COTEPRA project based at University of Bologna, 1998-2001; consigliere
scientifico and sub-group co-ordinator for ACUME Project, based at University
of Bologna, 2002-6; Honorary Professor, University of Melbourne, 2006-present.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Funding
From
Australian Research Council:
1980-1
$6000 per annum for two years for .5 research assistant on Chaucer Variorum
project.
1987-8 $12000 per annum for two years for research
assistance for Robin Hood project.
1989-90
$20000 per annum for two years for research assistance on Australian crime
fiction project
1992-4 $65000 per annum for three years for team
project `Re-reading Victorian Australia' project of which I was initially
Principal Researcher, then on moving to Britain became Research Associate.
In Britain:
1993 De
Montfort University provided £100000 per annum for three years for research
development in English under my supervision.
1995
British Academy award of £3184 for Early Crime Fiction Project.
2001 Arts
and Humanities Research Board award of
£22522 for six months research leave for book One Hundred Years of Fiction for
Writing Wales in English Series for University of Wales Press.
2006-07
British Academy award for research on book Merlin: Knowledge and Power,
£6800.
2009-10
British Academy award for research on Mysterious Cities project, £7450.
Projected:
Possibility
of seeking funding for project Between the Convicts and the Bush, a
Bourdieu-based study of the development of Australian self-consciousness in and
through fiction in the early-mid nineteenth century.
Research Publications
Books:
The
Structure of Sir Thomas Malory's Arthuriad, Sydney University Press,
1969, reprinted 1974
(with B. K.
Martin) Aspects of Celtic
Literature, Sydney University Press, 1970
Rymyng
Craftily: Meaning in Chaucer's Poetry, Angus and Robertson, London and Sydney, 1973;
Humanities Press, Atlantic Heights, 1976
The Poetry
of the Canterbury Tales, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1974
Form and
Ideology in Crime Fiction, Macmillan, London; Indiana University Press,
Bloomington, 1980
Arthurian
Literature and Society, Macmillan, London; St Martin's Press, New York, 1983
Geoffrey
Chaucer, Blackwell, Oxford, 1986
Robin Hood
: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw, Blackwell, Oxford, 1994,
reprinted 1995.
Continent
of Mystery : A Thematic History of Australian Crime Fiction,
Melbourne University Press, 1997
Robin Hood:
A Mythic Biography, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2003; paperback
edition, 2009
Crime
Fiction, 1800-2000: Detection, Death, Diversity, Palgrave,
London and New York, 2004 (revised second edition, Crime Fiction 1800 to the
Present, 2009)
One Hundred
Years of Fiction (first in the Writing Wales in English series), University
of Wales Press, Cardiff, 2004
Merlin:
Knowledge and Power Through the Ages, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2009
[See Amazon page]
The
Mysteries of the Cities: Urban Crime in the Nineteenth-Century,
McFarland, Jefferson NC, 2012
[See Amazon page]
Other Books
The Selling
of the Australian Mind, Heinemann, Melbourne, 1990; reprinted Mandarin,
Melbourne 1991
Freedom Was
Compulsory: Sins and Signs in Contemporary Australia, Heinemann,
Melbourne, 1994
In Planning Stage:
Sherlock
Holmes’ Grandmother: National and International
Influences In Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction
Between Convicts
and the Bush Myth: Development of
Settler Culture and Concepts in mid-Nineteenth-Century Australia, research
project (funding sought, see above ) and book, 2013-14
The Politics
of Myth, research-based book on the varieties and functions of
the Arthurian myth across Western culture 800-2000, probably for Cornell
Essay
Collections edited:
with Don
Anderson, Cunning Exiles : Studies in Modern Prose Writers, Angus
and Robertson, Sydney and London, 1974
with
Michael Wilding, The Radical Reader, Wild and Woolley, Sydney, 1977
with
S.N.Mukherjee, Worlds and Words : Studies in the Social Role of
Verbal Culture, Sydney Studies in Society and Culture, 1983
with
H.Gustav Klaus, The Art of Murder, Tübingen, Stauffenburg, 1998
with
H.Gustav Klaus, British Industrial Fictions, University of Wales Press,
Cardiff, 2000
with H.
Gustav Klaus, `To Hell with Culture’: Anarchism in Twentieth Century British
Literature, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 2005
Robin Hood
: An Anthology of Scholarship and
Criticism, Cambridge, Brewer, 1999
Cultural
Memory: Oralcy and Literacy, a CD Rom containing twenty papers and associated
hypertext links, for ACUME project based at University of Bologna, 2006
WWW2.linguie.unibo.it/Acume/acumedvd/index.html
Robin Hood
in Greenwood Stood: Alterity and Context in the English Outlaw Myth, Brépols, Turnhout,
2012.
At Press
With
Maurizio Ascari, Crime and the Sublime, special issue of La Questione
Romantica (Bologna), 2012
Texts edited:
with T.
Ohlgren, Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales, Western Michigan University
Press, Kalamazoo, 1997 (second edition, 2000)
Robert
Barr, The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont, Oxford University Press, 1997
Robin Hood
: The `Forresters’ Manuscript, Boydell and Brewer, Cambridge, 1998
Robin
Hood Classic Fiction Library, 8
vols. Routledge, London, 2005
Anthologies edited:
Dead
Witness : Best Australian Mystery Stories, Penguin, Melbourne 1990
Crimes for
a Summer Christmas, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1990
More Crimes
for a Summer Christmas, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1991
A Corpse at
the Opera House, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1992
Murder at
Home, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1993
Enter the
Detective: Crime Fiction in Early Nineteenth Century Magazines, Cardiff
Papers in English Literature, 1995, revised ed.1997
Essays:
`The
Meaning of "The Parlement of Foulys",' Southern Review, 2 (1967), 223-39
`Almoost a
spanne brood,' Neophilologus, 52, (1968), 178-80
`The Oral
Transmission of "Sir Launfal",' Medium Aevum, 38 (1969),
164-70
`Satire in Piers
Plowman,' in Piers Plowman : Critical Approaches, ed. S.S.Hussey, Methuen,
London, 1969
`Rhetoric
and Poetry in "The Franklin's Tale",' Chaucer Review, 4
(1970), 14-30
`Forms of
Gloom: The Novels of Flann O'Brien,' in Cunning Exiles, see under Essay
Collections above, 1974
`Style and
the Effects of Style in Malory's Arthuriad,'Parergon, 9, (1974), 3-27
`Some
Aspects of Structure in Medieval Literature.' Parergon, 16 (1976), 3-17
`Chaucer
and the Sociology of Literature,' Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 2
(1980), 15-51
`Welsh
Poetic's Well-Shaped Art,' Journal of European Studies, 11 (1981), 18-28
`Ideology
in "The Franklin's Tale",' Parergon, 28 (1981), 3-45
`The Case
of the Great Detective', Meanjin 40 (1981), 175-85; reprinted in Arthur
Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Major Stories with Contemporary Critical
Essays, ed. John Hodgson (St Martin's, New York, 1990), 368-80.
`Proesce
and Cortoisie : Ideology in Chrétien de Troyes' "Le Chevalier au
Lion",' Studium, 14 (1982), 1-53
`Textual
Variants, Textual Variance,' Southern Review, 16 (1983), 44-54
`Arthurian
Ideologies,' in Words and Worlds, see under Essay Collections above,
1983
`Jack
Lindsay, Medievalist,' in Culture and History : Essays Presented to Jack
Lindsay, ed. Bernard Smith, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1984
`Why was
"Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight the Most Popular Ballad in Europe ?' in Not
the Whole Story, ed. Sneja Gunew and
Ian Reid, Local Consumption, Sydney, 1985; reprinted in Non-Chaucerian
Medieval Poetry, ed. S. J. Trigg, Longman, London, 1993
`The Social
Function of the Middle English Romances,' in Medieval Literature :
Culture, Ideology, History, ed. David Aers, Harvester, Brighton, 1986
`Bold Robin
Hood : The Structures of a Tradition,' Southern Review, 20 (1987),
153-67
`The Case
of the Missing Genre: In Search of Australian Crime Fiction,' Southerly,
48 (1988), 235-49
`Turf Bench
and Gloriet : Medieval Gardens and their Meaning,' Meanjin, 47 (1988),
388-96
`A Hard
Cheerfulness : An Introduction to Raymond Chandler,' in American Crime Fiction : Studies in a
Genre, ed. Brian Doherty, Macmillan, London, 1988
`Personal
Substance: The Novels of Raymond Williams,' New Welsh Review, 2
(1988), 28-32
`The
Borders and their Ballads,' in Jacobean Poetry and Prose, ed. Clive
Bloom, Macmillan, London, 1989
`Larded
Milk and Pastry Castle : The Social Semiotics of Medieval Food,' Meanjin,
48, 1989, 124-33
`Searching
for Research: The Selling of the Australian Mind,' Meanjin, 48 (1989),
456-62
`Chaucer's
British Rival: on Chaucer and Dafydd ap Gwilym,' Leeds Studies in English,
n.s.20 (1989), 87-98
`Correctness
in Language' in Frontiers of Style, ed. P.H.Peters, Macquarie University
Press, Sydney, 1990
`The Men of
the North: British Southern Scotland and Its Cultural Heritage,' Australian
Celtic Studies 2, 1990, 3-10
`Radical
Thrillers,' in Watching the Detectives, ed. Ian Bell and Graham Daldry,
Macmillan, London, 1990
`The Knife
Beneath the Skin: Crime Writing, Masculinity and Sadism,' Arena, 97,
1991, 145-56
`The Case
of the Stolen Jumbuck,' in Reconnoitres: Essays in Australian
Literature in Honour of G.A.Wilkes, ed. Margaret Harris and Elizabeth
Webby, Oxford University Press, Sydney, 1992
`Sterling
Settlement and Colonial Currency: Post-Colonial Patterns in Australian Crime
Fiction,' Working Papers no. 74, Sir Robert Menzies Centre for
Australian Studies, University of London, 1992
`How Red
Was My Story ? The Working Class Novel in Wales,' Planet, 98, 1993,
83-94
`A Blood
Spot on the Map: Place and Displacement in Australian Crime
Fiction,' Australian
Cultural History, 12, 1993, 145-59
`Robin Hood
and the Royal Restoration,' Critical Survey, 5, 1993, 298-312
`In the
Golden World : Shakespeare and the Pedagogy of Power,' in Shakespeare's
Books : Contemporary Cultural Politics and the Persistence of Empire, ed.
Philip Mead and Marion Campbell, Melbourne University Literary and Cultural
Studies Series, vol. 1, 1993
`The
Vanishing Policeman: Patterns of Control in Australian Crime Fiction,' British
Journal of Australian Studies, 11, 1994, 95-114
`Carbonek
and Camelot : The Crusades and the Development of the Grail Myth,' in Medieval
Codicology, Iconography, Literature and Translation : Studies for K.V.Sinclair,
ed. P. R. Monks and D.D.R.Owen, Brill, Leiden, 1994
`Regional
Crime Squads: Location and Dislocation in Provincial British Crime Fiction', in
Peripheral Visions, ed. Ian A. Bell, University of Wales Press, Cardiff,
1995
Entries on
`Australian Crime Fiction' and `Peter Corris' for
Encyclopedia
of Post-Colonial Literatures in English, Routledge, London, 1995
`Bobbin Up
and the Working-Class Novel,' in Dorothy Hewett, ed.Bruce Bennett,
University of Western Australia Press, 1995; reprinted in Bobbin Up: 40th
Anniversary Edition, Vulgar Press, Melbourne, 1999, 213-26.
`Murder in
Wartime' in History and Culture in the Second World War, ed. P. Kirkham
and D. Thoms, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1995
`The Case
of the Hidden Dragon : Style, Simile and Gender in The Big Sleep,'Q/W/E/R/T/Y,
5, 1995, 259-66
`The
Emergence of Robin Hood as a National Hero,' in Robin Hood : The Many Faces
of That Celebrated Outlaw, ed. K. Carpenter, Bibliotheks- und
Informationssystem der Universität Oldenburg, 1995
`What Kind
of Ghoul am I ? Genre and Sub-Genre in Crime Fiction,' in How to Write a
Crime Novel, ed. Marele Day, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1996
`Textualising
the Margins: Recuperating Alienation in American Crime Fiction,' in Representing
and Imagining America ed. Philip John Davies, Keele University Press, 1996
`Outlaw
Myths : Or, Was Robin Hood Alone in the Woods ?' in Myth and Its Legacy in
European Literature, ed. N. Thomas and F. Le Saux, Durham Modern Language
Series, University of Durham, 1996
`"A
Local Moment" : Raymond Williams' The Volunteers as Crime Fiction,'
Welsh Writing in English 2, 1996, 226-37
`Men in
Tights : Fitting the Tradition Snugly,' in Pulping Fictions, ed. D.
Cartmell et al., Pluto Press, London, 1996
`Splitting
the Arrow' : Robin Hood, History and Historicism,' in History, Literature
and Society: Essays in Honour of S.N.Mukherjee, ed. Mabel Lee and Michael
Wilding, Sydney Studies in Society and Culture 15, 1997
`From
Script to Print: Editing the Forresters Manuscript,' in Ballads into Books :
The Legacies of Francis James Child, ed. Tom Cheesman and Sigrid
Rieuwerts, Bern, Lang, 1997
`"Quite
Another Man": The Restoration Robin Hood,' in Playing Robin Hood : The
Legend as Performance in Five Centuries, ed. Lois J.Potter, University of
Delaware Press, 1998
`Enter the
Detective,' in The Art of Murder, ed. Gustav Klaus and Stephen Knight,
Tübingen, Stauffenburg, 1998
`The Tale
of Gamelyn' in Medieval Outlaws: Ten Tales in Modern English, ed. Thomas
H. Ohlgren, Stroud, Sutton, 1998
Review
article on Reliques of English Poetry, Ed. by Thomas Percy, with an
Introduction by Nick Groom, 3 Vols, London, Routledge/Thoemmes, Folk Music
Journal, 45, 1998, 520-22
`Listeth
and Listneth: Reading Gamelyn for Text not Context,' in Tradition and
Transformation in Medieval Romance, ed. Rosalind Field, Brewer, Cambridge
1999
`"Love's
Altar is a Forest Grove": Chaucer in the Light of Dafydd ap Gwilym,' Nottingham
Medieval Studies, 43, 1999, 172-88
`Robin Hood
and the Printer,' Trivium, 31, 1999, 155-68
`Which Way
to the Forest : Approaches to Robin Hood Studies,' in Robin Hood in Popular
Culture: Violence, Transgression, and Justice, ed Thomas Hahn, Brewer,
Cambridge, 2000
`Region,
Gender and Value in Crime Fiction' in Terranglian Territories, Proceedings
of the Seventh International Conference
on the Literature of Region and Nation,
Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2000
`"...
the uncertainties and hesitations that were the truth...": Welsh
Industrial Writing by Women,' British Industrial Fictions, ed. H.G.Klaus
and S.Knight, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 2000
`The Voice
of Labour Fourteenth-Century English Literature,' in The Problem of Labour
in Fourteenth-Century England, ed. James Bothwell, P.J.P. Goldberg and
W.M.Ormrod, York Medieval Press, The University of York, York, 2000
`The
Lordship Claim in "The Monk's Tale",' Studies in the Age of
Chaucer, 22 (2000), 181-6
`Post-Colonial
Peredur' in Canhwyll Marchogyon: Cyd-destunoli Peredur, ed.
Sioned Davies and Peter Thomas, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 2001
`Filling an
emptying bath, or Understanding humanities funding,' Critical Quarterly,
43 (2001), 81-7
`Chaucer: The
Canterbury Tales' in Literature in Context ed. R.Rylance and
J.Simons, Palgrave, London, 2001,
`Places in
the Text: A Topographicist Approach to Chaucer,' in Speaking Images: Essays
in Honor of V.A.Kolve, ed. Robert F. Yeager and Charlotte Morse, Pegasus
Press, Asheville, North Carolina, 2001
`The Nun's
Priest's Tale,' in Essays on the Art of Chaucer's Verse, ed. Alan
T.Gaylord, Routledge, New York, 2001 (Chap.5 of Rymyng Craftily
reprinted)
`"not
a place for me": Rhys Davies and the South Wales Coalfield' in Decoding
the Hare: Essays on Rhys Davies, ed. Meic Stephens (University of Wales
Press, Cardiff, 2001)
`"The
Voices of Glamorgan": Gwyn Thomas's Colonial Fiction,' in Welsh Writing
in English, 7 (2001-02), 16-34.
`Introduction'
to Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Loffredo, Naples,
2002), pp.xiii-xxxi.
with Carole
Ferrier, `Jean Devanny and Dorothy Hewett: Two Australian Industrial Fiction
Writers' in Socialist Cultures East and West: A Post-Cold War Reassessment,
ed. Dubravka Jurga and M. Keith Booker, Prager, Westport, 2002
`The Golden
Age' in The Cambridge Companion to Companion to Crime Fiction,
ed. M. Priestman, Cambridge University Press, 2003
`A New
Enormous Music: The Welsh Industrial Novel' in Welsh Writing in English,
Guide to Welsh Literature Vol.VII ed. M.Wynn Thomas, Cardiff, University
of Wales Press, 2004
`How Red
Was Robin Hood ?' in Running Wild: Essays, Fictions and Memoirs Presented to
Michael Wilding, ed. David Brooks and Brian Kiernan, Manohar. New Delhi,
2004
`"meere
English flocks": Ben Jonson's The Sad Shepherd and the Robin Hood
Tradition",' in Robin Hood: Medieval and Post-Medieval, ed. Helen
Phillips, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2005
`Post-Colonial
Wales: Literature’, in Post-Colonial Wales, ed. Jane Aaron and Chris
Williams, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 2005
`Anarcho-Syndicalism
in Welsh Industrial Fiction' in `To Hell with Culture': Anarchism in
Twentieth Century British Literature, ed. H.G.Klaus and S.Knight,
University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 2005
`Crimes
Domestic and Crimes Colonial: The Role of Crime Fiction in Developing
Post-Colonial Consciousness' in Christine Matzke and Susanne Mǖhleisen, eds., Postcolonial
Postmortems: Crime Fiction from a Transcultural Perspective, Rodopi,
Amsterdam, 2006
`Remembering
Robin Hood: Five Centuries of Outlaw Ideology', European Journal of English
Studies, 10 (2006), 149-61
`Afterword’
to Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood , Signet, New York.
2006, pp. 377-980.
`Watson's
Wound and the Speckled Band': Representations of Imperial Forces in the work of
Arthur Conan Doyle' in Linguae & Rivista di Lingue e Culture Moderne
1 (2006), 11-24.
`Rabbie
Hood: The Development of the English Outlaw Myth in Scotland,' in
Bandit
Territories, ed. Helen Phillips, University of Wales Press,
Cardiff, 2008, 99-118.
With Thomas
Hahn, `”Exempt me Sire, I am Afeared of Women” : Homosocial and
Homosexual in the Robin Hood tradition’, in Bandit Territories, ed.
Helen Phillips (see above), 24-43.
`Sherlock
Holmes’s Grandmother: An Untraditional Look at the Anglophone Crime Fiction Tradition’
Anglo Files: Journal of English
Teaching (Denmark), 149, September 2008, 29-37.
`Robin
Hood: The Earliest Contexts’ in Images of Robin Hood ed. Joshua Calhoun
and Lois J. Potter, Delaware University Press, Newark DE, 2008, pp.21-40.
`Robin Hood
and the Crusades: When and Why Did the Longbowman of the People Mount Up Like a
Lord?’ Florilegium 23 (2008, for 2006), 201-22.
`From
Myrddin to Merlin and Back Again’, Transactions of the Honourable Society of
Cymmrodorion, 14 (2008), 5-20.
`Our Dark
Materials: Australian Crime Fiction in the Twenty-First Century’, Age (Melbourne), 22nd July, 2009
`Arthur in
the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries’, Cambridge Companion to the
Arthurian Legend, ed. Elizabeth Archibald and Ad Putter (with Rob Gossedge)
2009, 103-119.
`Celtic and
Christian in Arthurian Romance’ in Christianity and Arthurian Romance, ed.
Rosalind Field, and Michelle Sweeney, Brewer, Cambridge 2010,
`”Toward
the Fen”: Churls and Church in Chaucer’s Fabliaux’, in Chaucer and Religion,
ed. Helen Phillips, Brewer, Cambridge, 2010, 41-51.
`Classicising
Christianity in Chaucer’s Dream Poems’, in Chaucer and Religion, see
above, 143-55.
`Poetry and
Gore and More: Peter Temple’s Australian Crime Fiction’, Arena, (Melbourne),
107 (2010), 37-41.
`”On Stony
Ground”: Rhys Davies’s The Withered Root’, in Mapping the Teritory:
Critical Approaches to Welsh Fiction in English, ed. Katie Gramich,
Parthian, Cardigan, 2010, 11-34.
` Robin
Hood versus King Arthur', in In Strange Countries: Middle English Literature
and Its Afterlife: Essays in Memory of John Anderson, ed. David Matthews,
Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2011, 9-24.
`Peter
Temple: Australian Crime Fiction on the World Stage’, Clues, 29 (2011), 71-81.
`The Arctic
Arthur’, Arthuriana 12 (2011), 59-89.
`Indexing
Vivien’, in Re-Fashioning Myth, ed. Jessica L. Wilkinson, Eric Parisot
and David McInnis, Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011
with
Jonathan Evans, `The Hand at the Window: Twm Siôn Cati: The Welsh Colonial
Trickster’ in Welsh Mythology and Folklore in Popular Culture, ed.
Audrey L. Becker and Kristin Noone,
Jefferson NC: McFarland, 2011, 91-107.
`Preface’
to New Directions in Crime Fiction, ed. Malcah Effron and Maureen
Sunderland, Jefferson NC: McFarland, 2011
`King
Arthur’ and `Robin Hood’, essays for Icons of the Middle Ages edited by
Lister Matheson, Garland, New York, 2012
`Speaking
from the Grave: Universities Past Present and Question Mark Future’
for Arena, 116, February-March, 2012
`Alterity,
Parody and Habitus: the Formation of the Early Robin Hood Texts’, for Robin
Hood in Greenwood Stood: Alterity and Context in the English Outlaw Tradition,
ed. Stephen Knight, Brépols, Turnhout, 2012
Completed and Forthcoming:
`Robin
Hood', in Encyclopedia of English Literature, Oxford University Press,
New York, 2012
`Welsh Literature
in English’, essay for Encyclopedia of World Literature, New York, 2012
`Arthurian
Literature’, bibliography for Oxford Bibliographies On-Line, Oxford University
Press, New York, 2012
`Robin Hood’,
bibliography for Oxford Bibliographies On-Line, Oxford University Press, New
York, 2012
`Edgar
Wallace’ and `Robert Barnard’ in Encyclopedia of Crime Fiction, ed. Esme
Miskimin, 2012
`Parody,
Comedy and Archery: Re-Generating the Robin Hood Tradition’ for
essay-collection ed. Thomas Hahn, 2012
`The
Mysteries of the Cities and the Myth of Urban Gothic’, for special issue of La
Questione Romantica (Bologna), ed. Maurizio Ascari and Stephen Knight,
2012.
`A Tale of
Three Cities: Megalopolitan Fiction in the 1840s’, for essay-collection, ed.
Catherine Hughes, University of Wales Press, 2012.
`Across the
Swamp to the Immigrants’ Home: Donald Cameron’s 1873 The Mysteries of
Melbourne Life’, paper for Melbourne University, October, 2011 and probably
an Australian journal 2013
`Feasts in
the Forest’, for festschrift for Thomas H. Ohlgren, ed. Dorsey Armstrong, Sean
Hughes and Alexander Kaufman, 2012/13
`Oralcy and
Literacy in Dialectic: The Case of Robin Hood’, for festschrift for
Richard
Green, University of Toronto Press, 2013
`Dates and
Themes in the Broadside Robin Hood Ballads’, for essay collection
`Robin
Hood: Popular, Medieval, International’, paper for Perth conference on Memory
and Medievalism, and subsequent publication, 2012
`Face and
Heart: the Inter-relation of Honour and Love in Medieval Chivalric Literature’,
contribution to History of Emotions project: conference paper and lengthy essay
for subsequent publication, 2012-3
`Harold C. Wells’s
The Earth Cries Out’, for essay collection
`Preface’
to William Adler, Maigret, Paris and
France, McFarland Jefferson, 2012
In Progress
.
`Laurie
Clancy on Nabokov’, for essay collection ed. John MacLaren
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Not listed
here are non-research essays, magazine and newspaper features or public
lectures -- a substantial number of items in these genres have been produced.
Also omitted are reviews and review articles: for ten years I was a regular
book reviewer for the Sydney Morning Herald and acted for three years in
the same capacity for the Melbourne
Herald, specialising in modern fiction, including crime writing. In Britain
and Australia I have also written reviews and features for radio, as well as
for a number of other newspapers and magazines. I continue to do this kind of
work intermittently, notably for the Melbourne Age and Arena. I
have always written academic reviews, on average two or three a year, rather
more in recent years.
I am
regularly invited to appear as a media commentator on cultural and social
matters. I have acted as consultant and on-camera interviewee in television
documentaries for SATEL, HTV (Wales), Tiger Aspect and the BBC. I have regularly and
recently been interviewed on radio programmes on areas of my expertise in
Britain, USA, Ireland, Canada, France and Australia. I recurrently respond to
press inquiries on matters of my expertise.
I have
acted as consultant for a large number of academic and fiction publishers in
Britain and Australia, as a reader for a wide range of academic journals, and
have worked as consultant editor on several guides to English usage. I am on
the editorial board for Clues: A Journal of Crime Fiction, The
Journal of British Australian Studies and Medieval Studies in Australia.
On several occasions I have been involved in judging literary prizes; I was
chair of the fiction panel for the Premier's prize in Victoria, 1988, and for
the Welsh Arts Council Book of the Year in 1997, was invited to fill that role
in 2011 but declined, and was chair of
the Periodicals Panel, Arts Council Wales 1998-2000. I was founding Secretary
and Treasurer of Penarth Arts and Crafts Limited, management body of the
Washington Gallery, Penarth, dedicated to showing and selling new art, running
a publicly-funded art education and cultural programme, and organising the
restoration of the Penarth Pier Pavilion, which was awarded £1.7 million by the
U.K. Heritage Lottery Fund in June 2011 and £2.1 million from other sources. I
am now involved in organisation and delivery of programmes for the Melbourne
Free University.
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