Prof Nicholas Royle
| Post: | Emeritus Professor (English) |
| Other posts: | Professor Of English (Centre for Creative and Critical Thought) |
| Location: | ARTS B |
| Email: | N.W.O.Royle@sussex.ac.uk |
Biography
Nicholas Royle is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Sussex where he has been based since 1999. He established the MA/PhD programme in Creative and Critical Writing in 2001 and was founding director of the Centre for Creative and Critical Thought.
He has previously taught at the University of Stirling, Scotland (1992-9), the University of Tampere, Finland (1987-92) and at the University of Oxford (1981-87).
Nicholas Royle has published many critical books and essays, as well as novels and short stories (including quick fictions). His books to date are:
This Thing Called Literature (Second edition, 2024, co-authored with Andrew Bennett)
An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory (Sixth edition, 2023, co-authored with Andrew Bennett)
David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the Sun Machine (2023)
Hélène Cixous: Dreamer, Realist, Analyst, Writing (With an Afterword by Cixous) (2021)
Mother: A Memoir (2020)
An English Guide to Birdwatching: A Novel (2017)
Veering: A Theory of Literature (2011)
Quilt: A Novel (with a Critical Afterword) (2010)
In Memory of Jacques Derrida (2009)
How to Read Shakespeare (2005, new edition 2014)
Jacques Derrida (2003)
The Uncanny (2003)
Deconstructions: A User's Guide (2000) (as editor)
E.M. Forster (1999)
After Derrida (1995)
Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel: Still Lives (1995, co-authored with Andrew Bennett)
Telepathy and Literature: Essays on the Reading Mind (1990)
Royle is also an editor of the Oxford Literary Review, a journal with which he has been involved since the 1970s, and director of Quick Fictions. He has recently written his first detective novel and is currently completing a book entitled The Weird, the Uncanny and the New Fantastic.