Co-founders and co-directors of NEICN:- John Strachan

John Strachan is Professor in Romantic Literature at Sunderland. He has published widely on the comic literature of the late Georgian period and is co-editor of Parodies of the Romantic Age (5 volumes, 1999), general editor of British Satire 1785-1840 (5 volumes, 2003), and editor of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine: Selected Criticism, 1820-25 (2006). He is also a specialist in the poetry of Leigh Hunt, John Keats and the 'Cockney School' and has edited Hunt's Poetical Works (2 volumes, 2003; the first scholarly edition for 80 years). His Routledge Complete Critical Guide to the Poems of John Keats appeared in 2004. With Professor Richard Terry, he is co-author of Poetry (2000). A long-term project Advertising and Satirical Culture will be published in 2007 by Cambridge University Press. Dr Strachan is the Associate Editor for Romanticism for the seventh edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature (to be published in 2010). He has a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2006-2007 to complete his book The Devil’s Baits: The Literature of Sport 1780-1840.

Professor Strachan has a long-term interest in Irish literature. His Oxford D.Phil. was on the work of Charles Robert Maturin and he is the general editor of The Satires of Thomas Moore (2003). With Dr Alison Younger, he co-founded the annual Sunderland Irish Literature conferences and he is a founding member of NEICN. He is currently involved in a research project entitled Shopping with James Joyce: The Cultural History of Advertising in Nineteenth-Century Ireland with Dr Younger, Professor Stephen Regan (University of Durham) and Dr John Nash, (University of Durham). John enjoys clay pigeon shooting, playing the five-string banjo and spreading world peace.