Charles Lock

Primary fields of research

For almost thirty years I have been the Contributing Editor of the Powys Journal, of which I have ben since 2010 the Editor. My interests are extensive, ranging across all parts of the English-writing world, and beyond, to art history, comparative literature, literary theory and book history. I regularly teach courses on Shakepseare, Jane Austen, Chaucer and other canonical English writers. Less often I teach courses on recent and contemporary experimental poetry; one course, on ‘Rotten English’, is based on a long engagement with the work of the Nigerian author Ken Saro-Wiwa. Many of my recent publications have been on modern and contemporary poetry, from Thomas Hardy and Gerard Manley Hopkins to Derek Walcott, Roy Fisher, Geoffrey Hill and Anne Blonstein. I have a continuing involvement in literary theory, with opublicatiosn on M.M. Bakhtin and Roman Jakobson, and in book history with a particular interest in punctuation, layout, scripts, and the iconic properties of text.   

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Charles Lock has been Professor of English Literature at the University of Copenhagen since 1996. A Senior Scholar of Keble College, he received his D.Phil. from Oxford in 1982 for a dissertation on John Cowper Powys. In 1979 he was awarded the Laurence Binyon Prize (a University Prize) in the History of Art. He taught for two years at the University of Karlstad, in Sweden, and from 1983 was at the University of Toronto where he was appointed to Full Professor in 1993; he was also adjunct professor at Toronto in Comparative Literature, Russian and East European Studies, Religious Studies and Medieval Studies.

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