Mr Russell Dent
| Post: | Associate Tutor (American Studies) |
| Other posts: | Research Student (American Studies) |
| Location: | Arts A 106 |
| Email: | R.J.Dent@sussex.ac.uk |
| Personal homepage: | www.rjdent.com |
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Biography
R J Dent is a poet, novelist, translator, essayist, blogger, short story writer, creative writing tutor and researcher.
His most recent book is an English translation of The Songs of Maldoror by Le Comte de Lautréamont, which includes twenty illustrations by Salvador Dali.
R J Dent's previous translations include an English version of Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil & Artificial Paradise and a modern English version of the Poems and Fragments of Alcaeus.
He has also translated major works by Louis Aragon, Antonin Artaud, Guillaume Apollinaire, Cyprien Berard, André Breton, Paul Eluard, Paul Feval, Maurice Heine, J.K. Huysmans, André Masson, Maurice Rollinat, and Tarjei Vesaas.
R J Dent has also published poems, short stories, novellas and essays in numerous magazines, periodicals and journals, including Writer's Muse, Orbis, Roundyhouse, Chanticleer, and Philosophy Now, to name but a few. His translations of the poems of Alcaeus and Baudelaire have appeared in Acumen and Inclement.
His poetry collection Moonstone Silhouettes was published by Inclement Publishing in 2009.
His debut novel Myth was published in 2006.
His literary influences are William S. Burroughs, Angela Carter, J G Ballard, Ayn Rand, Anna Kavan and Ray Bradbury, amongst others.
Contemporary authors he admires include Pascale Petit, Jeremy Reed, Stephen Barber, Rupert Thomson, and Philippe Djian.
R J Dent is currently at work on his next book, a study of Emily Dickinson.
http://sussex.academia.edu/Russell Dent
Role
Associate Tutor (University of Sussex) Subject interests: Emily Dickinson, American poetry, Victorian America, Transcendentalism, Nineteenth Century literature
Creative Writing Tutor (Varndean College - Adult Ed)
Qualifications
BA; MA; Cert. Ed; Cert. SpLD; QTLS
Activities
poetry readings, live music, theatre, cinema
Emily Dickinson, American poetry, American fiction, Modernist poetry, European poetry, French literature, French poetry, Decadent literature, creative writing, translation studies, gender studies
Lautréamont, Le Comte de and Dent, Russell (trans) (2011) The songs of Maldoror. Solar Books/ University of Chicago Press, p. 1. ISBN 9780982046487
Baudelaire, Charles and Dent, Russell (trans) (2009) The flowers of evil. Solar Books/University of Chicago Press, p. 1. ISBN 9780979984778