Post:	Professor of English
Location:	Arts B B260
Email:	N.W.O.Royle@sussex.ac.uk
Telephone numbers
Internal:	7396
UK:	(01273) 877396
International:	+44 1273 877396

Biography

Nicholas Royle is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. He was formerly Reader in English Studies at the University of Stirling, Scotland (1992-9), and Associate Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Tampere, Finland (1989-92). He has published many essays and is author of numerous books, including:

 

How to Read Shakespeare. London: Granta, 2005.

An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory. Third edition. London and New York: Pearson, 2004. Co-author (with Andrew Bennett).

Jacques Derrida. London and New York: Routledge, 2003.

The Uncanny. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press/Routledge, 2003.

E.M. Forster. Writers and Their Work, New Series. Plymouth: British Council/Northcote House, 1999.

After Derrida. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1995.

Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel: Still Lives. London and New York: Macmillan/St Martin's Press, 1995. Co-author (with Andrew Bennett).

Telepathy and Literature: Essays on the Reading Mind. Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1990.

 

He is also editor of Deconstructions: A User's Guide (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2000) and joint editor of the Oxford Literary Review.

Research

Modern literature and literary theory, especially deconstruction and psychoanalysis; the uncanny; creative writing.