Prof Nicholas Royle

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:

Veering: A Theory of Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011.

In Memory of Jacques Derrida. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009.

An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory. Fourth edition. London and New York: Pearson, 2009. Co-author (with Andrew Bennett).

How to Read Shakespeare. London: Granta, 2005.

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

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

Deconstructions: A User's Guide (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2000) (as editor)

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 an editor of the Oxford Literary Review. Besides critical and theoretical writings, Royle has also published numerous works of short fiction and a novel, Quilt (Brighton: Myriad Editions, 2010). 

Royle, Nicholas (2012) Miracle play. Oxford Literary Review, 34 (1). pp. 123-153. ISSN 0305-1498

Royle, Nicholas (2011) Veering: a theory of literature. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748636549

Royle, Nicholas (2010) Quilt. Myriad Editions. ISBN 9780956251541

Royle, Nicholas (2008) Fear of Freud (on the universal tendency to debasement in the sphere of literature). Oxford Literary Review, 30 (1). pp. 109-146. ISSN 0305-1498