Professor David Duff
Chair in English
BA, MA, DPhil (York)
Personal Details
| Telephone: | +44 (0)1224 273686 |
| E-mail: | d.a.s.duff@abdn.ac.uk |
| Address: | B3 Taylor Building |
Biography
David Duff is Professor of English and Research Coordinator for English Literature in the School of Language & Literature. A graduate of the University of York, from where he holds a doctorate, he taught in Poland at the Nicholas Copernicus University of Torun and the University of Gdansk before joining the staff at Aberdeen. He has also been a visiting professor at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, USA, and a guest lecturer at other American and European universities. He is a founding member of the English Department's Centre for the Novel and a contributor to the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies. His professional affiliations include membership of the British Association of Romantic Studies, the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, and the European Society for the Study of English. He is Chair of the Council for College and University English and a Fellow of the English Association.
Research Interests
His research interests include Romantic poetry, Shelley and his circle, the 1790s, 'Four Nations' Romanticism, romance and other genres, the history of poetics, Russian Formalism and its legacy, genre theory, cognitive poetics, and theories of influence and intertextuality. His latest book, Romanticism and the Uses of Genre, won the ESSE Book Award for Literatures in the English Language. He is currently editing a major new teaching anthology, The Oxford Anthology of Romanticism, and a volume of critical essays, The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism. Other work in progress includes a monograph on the genre of the prospectus, further research on Shelley and on Romantic lyric, and a theoretical history of 'bad poetry' in English. He welcomes inquiries from prospective MLitt and PhD students in most areas of Romanticism, genre studies, and modern literary theory.
Teaching Responsibilities
His undergraduate teaching includes two English courses, Romanticism and Transformations of Romance, and a comparative literature course, Literature, History and Thought: 1848 to 9/11. He also lectures on Controversial Classics and The Tragedy of Knowledge. His postgraduate course Romanticism and Genre is part of the MLitt in English Literary Studies and the MLitt in the Novel, as is Theory of the Novel, a team-taught course to which he contributes. He is currently Junior Honours Advisor for English.
Publications
Books
Romanticism and the Uses of Genre (Oxford University Press, 2009, pbk 2013). Winner of the ESSE Book Award for Literatures in the English Language 2010
Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic, co-ed. with Catherine Jones (Bucknell University Press, 2007)
Modern Genre Theory, ed. (Longman, 2000)
Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre (Cambridge University Press, 1994, pbk 2005)
The Oxford Anthology of Romanticism, ed. (Oxford University Press, c. 2014), in progress
The Oxford Handbook of British Romanticism, ed. (Oxford University Press, c. 2014), in progress
Selected Articles and Chapters
'The Retuning of the Sky: Romanticism and Lyric', in The Lyric Poem: Formation of a Genre, ed. Marion Thain (Cambridge University Press, c. 2013), in progress
'The 1810 Poetry Collections', in The Unfamiliar Shelley: Volume 2, ed. Alan Weinberg and Timothy Webb (Ashgate, c. 2013), in progress
'"Melodies of Mind": Poetic Forms as Cognitive Structures', in Cognition, Literature, and History, ed. Mark Bruhn and Donald Wehrs (publisher tbc), forthcoming
'Novelization and its Discontents', in Anglistentag 2011 Freiburg: Proceedings, ed. Monika Fludernik and Bernd Kortmann (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2012), 113-23
'Charles Lamb's Art of Intimation', The Wordsworth Circle, 42.2 (2012), 127-34
'Lyric Development: Esdaile Notebook to 1816 Hymns', in The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. Michael O'Neill and Tony Howe (Oxford University Press, 2012), 240-55
'Intimations of Informality: Ode and the Essay Form', in Informal Romanticism, ed. James Vigus, Studien zur Englischen Romantik (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2012), 145-59
'Burke and Paine: Contrasts', in The Cambridge Companion to British Writing of the French Revolution in the 1790s, ed. Pamela Clemit (Cambridge University Press, 2011), 47-70
'Superscriptions of Bliss: Influence and Form in the Poetry of Lawrence', in Reading, Writing and the Influence of Harold Bloom, ed. Alan Rawes and Jonathon Shears (Manchester University Press, 2010), 193-216
'"The Casket of My Unknown Mind": The 1813 Volume of Minor Poems', in The Unfamiliar Shelley, ed. Timothy Webb and Alan Weinberg (Ashgate, 2009), 41-67
'Wordsworth and the Language of Forms: The Collected Poems of 1815', The Wordsworth Circle, 34.2 (2003), 86-90
'Maximal Tensions and Minimal Conditions: Tynianov as Genre Theorist', New Literary History, 34.3 (2003), 553-63. ‘Theorizing Genres 2’ special issue, ed. Ralph Cohen and Hayden White
'Muir’s Facsimiles and the Missing Visions', Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly, 37.1 (2003), 32-34
'Intertextuality versus Genre Theory: Bakhtin, Kristeva and the Question of Genre', Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory, 25.1 (2002), 54-73
'Anti-Didacticism as a Contested Principle in Romantic Aesthetics', Eighteenth-Century Life, 25.2 (2001), 256-74
'The Ode and Its Afterlife', in Paradoksy humanistyki: Ksi?ga pami?tkowa ku czci Profesora Andrzeja Zgorzelskiego, ed. Ola Kubinska and David Malcolm (University of Gdansk Press, 2001), 103-14
'Paratextual Dilemmas: Wordsworth’s "The Brothers" and the Problem of Generic Labelling', Romanticism, 6.2 (2000), 234-61
'Shelley’s "Foretaste of Heaven": Romantic Poetics and The Esdaile Notebook', The Wordsworth Circle, 31.3 (2000), 149-58