Seamus Perry

Curriculum Vitæ
1. Contact | 2. Education | 3. Appointments | 4. Other Positions | 5. Societies

Lectures and Papers | Publications

1. CONTACT DETAILS.

Postal address: Balliol College, Oxford OX1 3BJ.

E-mail: seamus.perry@balliol.oxford.ac.uk

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2. EDUCATION.
  1. Heron Wood Comprehensive School, Aldershot, Hampshire, 1979-83.


  2. Farnborough VI Form College, Hampshire, 1983-85.
    • A levels in Biology, Chemistry, English and Physics.

  3. St. Catherine's College, Oxford, 1986-89.
    • Honour Moderations, English Language and Literature, First, 1987.
    • Brook Scholarship, 1987-9.
    • B.A. Hons., English Language and Literature, First, 1989.


  4. St. Catherine's College, Oxford, 1989-94:.
    • British Academy Post-Graduate Studentship, 1989-92.
    • Light Senior Scholarship, 1991-2.
    • D.Phil. thesis: '"Radical Differences": Division in Coleridgean Literary Thinking; and the Construction of an English "Romanticism"'. Examiners: John Beer (Peterhouse, Cambridge) and Dr Roy Park (University College, Oxford). Leave to supplicate granted, January 1995.

University Prizes.

  • Shelley-Mills Prize (for an essay on Shakespeare), 1988.
  • Violet Vaughan Morgan Prize (for literary criticism), 1988.
  • Newdigate Prize (for an English poem), proxime accessit, 1988.
  • Matthew Arnold Essay Prize (for a critical essay), 1992.

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3. APPOINTMENTS.

(I) UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1990-1998.

Tutorial appointments, 1990-95.
  • St. Catherine's; Magdalen; Greyfriars; Worcester; Brasenose; Merton; St. Edmund Hall; Somerville; St. Anne's; Manchester; Hertford; Exeter; Lincoln; University.
College Lectureships, 1993-95.
  • St. Edmund Hall (M 1993, 1994-5)
  • St. Catherine’s (H, T 1995)
Lincoln College, 1995-98.
  • The Sir Walter Oakeshott Junior Research Fellowship.

(II) UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW, 1998-2002.
  • Lecturer in English Literature, 1998-2000
  • Reader in English Literature, 2000-2.


Grants and Awards.

  • AHRB Research Leave: 1 January 2002-1 January 2003.

(III) BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD
AND THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 2003- .

  1. Balliol College, 2003- .
    Fellow and Tutor in English.

  2. Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, 2003- .
    CUF Lecturer in English and Member of Faculty.



4. OTHER APPOINTMENTS.

1. The Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage, Grasmere.

  • Trustee, 2003- .


The Annual Wordsworth International Summer Conference at Dove Cottage.
  • Tutor, seminar-leader, encourager and guide, 1995-2003.

2. Journal Editorship.

3. Editorial boards, etc..

  1. Member, editorial board, The May Anthology of Oxford and Cambridge Poetry and The May Anthology of Oxford and Cambridge Short Stories (Cambridge/Oxford: Varsity/Cherwell), 1994.
  2. Founding member, editorial board, Romanticism on the Net, 1995- .
  3. Member, editorial board, The Charles Lamb Bulletin, 1997- .
  4. Contributor, The Year's Work in English Studies, 1997-2002.
  5. Judge, inaugural Annual Essay Prize, Romanticism on the Net, 2000.
  6. Member, consulting editorial board, Episteme: Epistemological Controversies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (London: LSE), 2002- .

4. Teaching Appointments, 1994- .

  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1994-8.
    University of Massachusetts Summer Seminar at Trinity College, Oxford.

    Tutor and deviser of undergraduate courses on modern British poetry.

  • Middlebury College, Vermont, 1995-2001, 2004-5.
    The Bread Loaf Graduate School of English. Lincoln College, Oxford (Summers).

    Tutor and deviser of Masters courses, 'Wordsworth and Coleridge' and 'Modernism and Romanticism in Twentieth Century British Poetry'.

5. External Examining.

  • Undergraduate Degrees:
    • English BA (Hons), University of Sheffield, 2003- .
    • English BA, University of Durham, 2003- .

  • Graduate Degrees:
    1. University of Leeds: Ph.D., 1999.
    2. University of Oxford: D.Phil., 2000.
    3. University of Durham: Ph.D., 2002.
    4. University of Cambridge: Ph.D., 2004.

5. MEMBERSHIP OF SOCIETIES.

The Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. The W.H. Auden Society; The Betjeman Society; The British Association for Romantic Studies; The Friends of Coleridge; The Friends of Dove Cottage; The Charles Lamb Society; The Philip Larkin Society; The Tennyson Society; The Wordsworth-Coleridge Association. The London Library.