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Dr Stephen Cheeke
Senior Lecturer
Room: 2.8
Phone: 0117 928 9782
Fax: 0117 331 7933
Email: S.H.Cheeke@bristol.ac.uk
Head of Education (2011/13)
I have been a lecturer in the English department since 1994 and teach the following courses:
- Approaches to Poetry;
- Literature III: 1700-1830;
- Contemporary Writing: 1945-Present;
- Literature IV: 1830-1945;
- Writing for Art;
- American Literature: 1945-Present.
I also teach on the MA pathways in Romanticism and in Modern and Contemporary Poetry.
Research Interests
My principle interest is in nineteenth century literature, and my publications in that field have previously been on Shelley and Byron [Byron and Place: History, Translation, Nostalgia was published in 2003], with more recent research interests in Coleridge, Keats, Hazlitt, De Quincey, D.G.Rossetti and Pre-Raphaelitism, and Robert Browning. My particular interest is in the relations between literature and art (painting, sculpture and photography). Writing for Art: The Aesthetics of Ekphrasis was published in 2008. This covered inter-art relations from the early nineteenth century to the present day, with an emphasis upon the Victorians, but also reflected my further interest in post-war American literature. I am currently writing a book on the relationship between literature and art in the nineteenth century that will cover both poetry and prose.
Publications
My publications have been on Romantic and Victorian writing. Byron and Place: History, Translation, Nostalgia (Palgrave, 2003); Writing for Art: The Aesthetics of Ekphrasis (Manchester, 2008).