Dr John Gardner

Dr John Gardner

MA, PhD (Glasgow) PGCE (Anglia)

Principal Lecturer and Admissions Tutor, English Literature
University Learning and Teaching Fellow


Room: Hel 161

Email: john.gardner@anglia.ac.uk

Telephone: 0845 196 2266
International: +44 1223 363271 ext 2266


John Gardner's research activity


Dr John Gardner joined Anglia Ruskin as a Lecturer in English Literature in 2004 - having previously taught at the University of Glasgow - and was Programme Leader for English, Writing and Publishing between 2005 and 2011.

John teaches English Literature from Chaucer to the present day, nonetheless his current research interests are mainly in Romantic period poetry and eighteenth/nineteenth century culture.

He has published on a range of authors and topics, including Lord Byron, William Hone, Charles Lamb, Percy Shelley, William Wordsworth and Romantic period radicalism. His monograph, Poetry and Popular Protest, is published by Palgrave Macmillan.

John is currently carrying out research on radical print culture between 1815 and 1842 - in particular the transmission of Romantic literary radicalism into the Victorian period.

John will be pleased to consider supervising post-graduate students with the following research interests:

  • Romantic and Victorian poetry and drama
  • Illustrators in the romantic period
  • Politics and nineteenth-century literature
  • Poetry and conflict

Recent and Current PhD Supervision as First Supervisor

Dr Eleanor Crouch, 'Frances Burney' (2009-2012)
Steven White, 'Conservative poetry of the 1790s' (current)
Kirsty Harris, 'Shipwrecks and Loss in Romantic Period Poetry' (current)
Kate Morrison, 'Illegality in Detective and Spy Fiction; 1880-1919' (current)

Forthcoming Papers

'Radicalism in the 1820s' at Making a Darkness Visible: The Literary Moment 1820-1840, The Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle, Friday 19 April, 2013

'Continuing After Defeat; "Radical Anger" and the Established Church' at The Making of the English Working Class: Fifty Years On, Anglia Ruskin University, Saturday 11 May 2013

'Cobbett's return to England in 1819' at Cobbett at 250, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Friday 13 September 2013

Professional Activities

External Examiner, Oxford Brookes University, 2008-2012
External Examiner, The University of Hertfordshire (current)
External Examiner, The University of East Anglia, (current)

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Member of the Charles Lamb Society
Member of the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association
Member of the British Association of Romantic Studies
Member of the Editorial Board of The John Clare Journal


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