Staff profile

Dr Paul Whickman


Senior Lecturer in English

Paul Whickman in a classroom.

Subject

English, Creative Writing and Publishing

College

College of Arts, Humanities and Education

Department

Humanities

Research centre

Identity, Culture and Representation Research Centre

ORCiD ID

0000-0003-0628-3593

Campus

Kedleston Road, Derby Campus

Email

P.Whickman@derby.ac.uk

About

Senior Lecturer in English

Teaching responsibilities

1st Year

2nd Year

3rd Year

Postgraduate

Research interests

My research interests lie in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (primarily Romanticism), and censorship and free speech more widely. I have recently completed a monograph titled Blasphemy and Politics in Romantic Literature: Creativity in the Writing of Percy Bysshe Shelley, appearing with Palgrave in 2020. I have published articles in journals such as the Keats-Shelley Review and was previously a contributor to the Year's Work in English Studies (2015-2018). I was also an academic advisor on Lord Byron for Gale/Cengage's Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism series. Particular writers of interest include Percy Shelley, Wordsworth, Keats and Byron.

Additional research interests include the intersection of poetry and philosophy; the poetics of temporality; poetry, sound and voice; the relationship between the vernacular and the literary.

I am currently supervising a PhD project on Percy Shelley and look forward to hearing from potential students interested in any of the above or related topics.

I am currently the chair of the Identity, Culture and Representation research cluster (ICR) and co-organiser of the Midlands Romantic Seminar.

Membership of professional bodies

Qualifications

Recent conferences

Conference presentations and invited papers (since 2013)

In the media

I was a contributor to the Radio 4 series 'Pride or Prejudice: How We Read Now', first broadcast in 2021. I appear in episode 2, 'Teaching Novels', about teaching material deemed offensive or otherwise subject to censorship.

Recent publications

Since 2013

Under review

Published