Simon SWIFT
Prof. Simon SWIFT
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RESEARCH INTERESTS / RECHERCHES
Originally from West Oxfordshire, I studied at the Universities of Cambridge, Leeds and London, and went back to Leeds to teach for a decade, first as Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer in Critical and Cultural Theory. I took up my post of Associate Professor of Modern English Literature at Geneva in 2015.
I have a very broad range of research and teaching interests, including poetry from the Seventeenth Century to the present (with a special focus on Romantic poetry); theories of the lyric; the relationship between visual culture (especially painting and film), literary form and time, and especially the impact of Renaissance art on Romantic writing; the links between anthropology, philosophy and imaginative writing. With Prof. Arthur Bradley of Lancaster AV短视频, I am a founder member of the 听and co-editor of the School鈥檚 book series, . 听I am currently writing a book about touch, artifice and absorption in Romantic and post-Romantic poetry and visual culture, a study which will seek to attend to the structures of feeling that circulate around our current sense of political and ecological emergency, while also describing the ways in which art both embodies the pressures of that situation and models moments of reprieve or respite from its intensities.
SUPERVISION
I鈥檝e supervised, or co-supervised eight PhD projects on topics ranging from gender and sexuality in the writings of Lord Byron to Elizabeth Bishop and baroque aesthetics. I have also supervised over twenty-five MA dissertations or听尘茅尘辞颈谤别蝉; topics have included 鈥淪pectral Haunting in De Quincey: The Relationship Between Body and Spirit in De Quincey鈥檚 Short Stories鈥�; 鈥淭heories of Colour in Holocaust Representation鈥�; 鈥淛onathan Franzen and the New Social Novel鈥�; 鈥淗ome, Space and Place in the Novels of D.H. Lawrence and John Cowper Powys鈥�. I鈥檇 be happy to hear from anyone interested in working with me at Geneva towards a PhD in the following fields: Romantic writing, the relation between the visual arts and poetry; the links between anthropology and literary writing (ie in postcolonial thought, affect theory); critical approaches to the question of the human; the intersections of Twentieth-Century political thought and philosophy with modern literature (for example Hannah Arendt).
PUBLICATIONS
Books and Monographs / Livres et monographies
(editor) "Contours of Learning: On Spivak", Parallax听17:3 (Summer 2011).
Hannah Arendt (London and New York: Routledge, 2008). Translated into Korean, Japanese, simplified Chinese and Arabic.
Romanticism, Literature and Philosophy: Expressive Rationality in Rousseau, Kant, Wollstonecraft and Contemporary Theory (London and New York: Continuum, 2006; paperback edition published 2008).
Articles and Chapters / articles et chapitres
听"The Crisis of Enlightenment",听in听The Cambridge History of European Romantic Literature,听ed. by Patrick Vincent (Forthcoming).
"Keats, Peterloo and Seriality",听Peterloo at 200: Histories, Narratives, Representations,听ed. Anna Anselmo and Marco Canani,听The Keats-Shelley Review听35:2 (September 2021), 158-168.
,听ELH听听85 (2018), 941-972.*
,听The Challenge of Change,听SPELL36 (2018), ed. by Margaret Tudeau-Clayton and Martin Hilpert, 143-160.*
, translated by Oran McKenzie, in David Spurr and Nicolas Ducimeti猫re, eds,听"Frankenstein": Cr茅e des T茅n猫bres听(Paris: Gallimard/ Fondation Martin Bodmer, 2016), 15-21.*
"Stoicism and Romantic Literature", in听The Routledge Handbook of the Stoic Tradition,听ed. By John Sellars (London and New York: Routledge, 2016), 303-318.
听, in听Called to Civil Existence: Mary Wollstonecraft's 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman',听ed. by Enit K. Steiner (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014), 131-154.*
听, in听Grasmere 2013: Selected Papers from the Wordsworth Summer Conference,听ed. by Richard Gravil (Penrith: Humanities Ebooks, 2013), 50-62.*
, in听The Poetic Enlightenment: Poetry and Human Science in Eighteenth-Century Thought,听ed. by Rowan Boyson and Tom Jones (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013), 153-167.*
,听Theorizing Violence,听ed. by Jane Kilby,听The European Journal of Social Theory听16:2 (August, 2013), 357-376.*
,听On the Move: Mobilities in English Language and Literature,听ed. by Annette Kern-St盲hler听and David Britain,听Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature听27 (T眉bingen: Narr, 2012),听39-52.*
听"Romanticism and Unhappiness: Melancholy as a Romantic Legacy", in听Legacies of Romanticism: Literature, Culture, Aesthetics,听ed. by Carmen Casaliggi and Paul March-Russell (London and New York: Routledge, 2012), 245-259.
"The Lesson of Gayatri Spivak",听Parallax听17:3 (Summer 2011), 84-97.*
Introduction to "Contours of Learning: On Spivak",听Parallax听17:3 (Summer 2011), 1-3.
,听Arendt After Modernity,听ed. by Devorah Baum, Stephen Bygrave, and Stephen Morton,听New Formations71 (Spring 2011), 79-94.*
"Mary Wollstonecraft and the Reserve of Reason",听Studies in Romanticism听45:1 (Spring 2006), 3-24, republished in听Mary Wollstonecraft,听ed. by Jane Moore (Farnham, Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012).
"Kant, Herder, and the Question of Philosophical Anthropology",听Textual Practice听19:2 (June 2005), 219-238.
Reviews / comptes rendus
Timothy Michael,听British Romanticism and the Critique of Political Reason听(Johns Hopkins, 2016),听The Keats-Shelley Journal听66 (2017), 173-174.
Ewan Jones,听Coleridge and the Philosophy of Poetic Form听(Cambridge AV短视频 Press, 2014),听Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies听41:2 (May 2018).
Emma Peacocke,听Romanticism and the Museum听(Palgrave, 2015),听Journal of British Studies听54:4 (October 2015), 1057-8.
Richard Adelman,听Idleness, Contemplation and the Aesthetic 1750-1830听(Cambridge AV短视频 Press, 2011),听Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies听38:2 (June 2015), 308-309.
Adam Potkay,听Wordsworth鈥檚 Ethics听(Johns Hopkins AV短视频 Press, 2012),听The Keats-Shelley Review听29:1 (April 2015), 60-62.
Rowan Boyson,听Wordsworth and the Enlightenment Idea of Pleasure听(Cambridge AV短视频 Press, 2012),听Romanticism听21:1 (April 2015), 103 -105.
Alexander Regier and Stefan H. Uhling, eds,听Wordsworth's Poetic Theory: Knowledge, Language, Experience听(Palgrave, 2009),听BARS Bulletin听(June 2011), 39-40.
Paul Hamilton,听Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory听(AV短视频 of Chicago Press, 2003),听Southern Humanities Review听39:4 (Summer 2006), 288-291.
Ono Oerlemans,听Romanticism and the Materiality of Nature听(AV短视频 of Toronto Press, 2003),听Southern Humanities Review听39:3 (Fall 2005), 378-381.