Dr Jonathon Shears
- Title
- Senior Lecturer in English
- Location
- CBB0.053
- Role
- Programmes Director
- Contact me
- By email
- Phone
- (+44) 01782 733014
- j.r.shears@keele.ac.uk
Biography
I am a Senior Lecturer in English and Editor of The Byron Journal. I studied at Oxford and Liverpool and held posts at Chester and Aberystwyth before arriving at Keele in 2009. I research and work in a number of areas including Romanticism, material culture in the nineteenth century and the representation of alcohol in literature and culture. I am currently completing a monograph titled The Hangover: A Cultural History, 1600-2000 (Liverpool University Press). Other projects include editing The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron and work on a new monograph provisionally titled Byron's Voice. I recently joined the Advisory Board of Keele Centre for Ageing Research (KCAR), founded the Romanticism and Ageing Research Network and will be co-editing a journal special issue on the subject in 2018. I would be very interested in hearing from you if you are looking to research in any of my areas of specialism, particularly Byron and Romantic Studies. For information and queries about submissions to The Byron Journal please follow this link.
Teaching
I convene the following modules at undergraduate level: ENG10027 Reading Literature, ENG20033 Romanticisms, ENG 30057 Dissertation, ENG30073 The Alcohol Question and ENG30059 Romantic Voices. At Masters level I convene ENG40032 Canon, AntiCanon, Context. I currently supervise PhD students working in the following areas: representations of the working poor in C19th English and Russian literature, the Brontes, and Romantic-period travel writing.
Publications
School of Humanities
Chancellor's Building
Keele University
Staffordshire
ST5 5AA
Tel: +44 (0) 1782 733109
Head of School
Dr Nick Seager
Room: CBB1.038 (Chancellor's Building, 'B' Extension)
Tel: +44 (0) 1782 733142
Email: n.p.seager@keele.ac.uk
School and college outreach
Tel: +44 (0) 1782 734009
Email: outreach@keele.ac.uk