Professor Richard Terry
BA (Birmingham), PhD (Cambridge)Professor of Eighteenth-Century English Literature
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Contact details: School of Arts & Social Sciences Northumbria University Lipman Building, room 423a Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST phone: +44 (0) 191 227 3568 fax: +44 (0) 191 227 3696 richard.terry@northumbria.ac.uk |
Biography
I did my first degree in English Language and Literature, before going on to specialize in eighteenth-century literature at postgraduate level. My career began with a one-year lectureship at Durham University (1989-90), and I also held a two-year research fellowship at Newcastle University in the mid-nineties. The bulk of my career so far, however, has been at the University of Sunderland where I became a professor in 2005: I spent fifteen years there, in two stints, before joining Northumbria in 2008. My current role involves the leadership of research across the English Division. I have written two monographs and numerous articles and book chapters. I also act as an expert reviewer for the AHRC and several academic publishers and journals.
Teaching Interests
I have delivered a wide range of modules in my career, including undergraduate ones on Literary Stylistics, Shakespeare, Renaissance, Romanticism and Twentieth-Century Literature. I have also taught two discrete MA modules on English Drama between the Restoration and the Licensing Act of 1737. I am currently offering a second year module entitled ‘Inventing the Novel: Defoe to Austen’, as well as teaching on the division’s MRes and PhD programmes.
Research Interests
My research so far has concentrated on three main projects: on eighteenth-century literary historiography, on mock-heroic writing, and on the plagiarism allegation in English literature from Butler to Sterne. All three were supported by funding from the AHRC and issued in monographs. I have also worked extensively on the eighteenth-century poet James Thomson, as well as writing a popular textbook (co-authored with John Strachan) on the critical analysis of poetry. Between 2006 and 2009 I was a co-director of the Leverhulme-funded ‘Before Depression’ project. Arising from this, I contributed to a book co-authored by the project team and also edited two collections of essays, based on the project’s public lecture series, published by the journal Studies in the Literary Imagination. I am currently in the early stages of a new project on published letters in the eighteenth century.
Postgraduate Supervision
I have mainly supervised doctoral students working on eighteenth-century topics. My two most recent completing students conducted projects on the fiction and criticism of Sarah Fielding and on ‘Depression and the Idle Lifestyle in the Eighteenth Century’. Another student is pursuing an AHRC-funded project on Laurence Sterne in collaboration with Shandy Hall. I also act as secretary for the North East Postgraduate Forum for the Long Eighteenth Century, a seminar for staff and students engaged in eighteenth-century research across the region. I am interested in supervising topics across the chronological span of 1660-1789.
Funding Awards
The Making of the National Literary Past 1660-1781 (AHRB Research Leave Scheme 2000)
Mock-heroic writing in English in the Eighteenth-century: an investigation of style and context (AHRB Research Leave Scheme 2003)
Literary Plagiarism in England from Dryden to Sterne (AHRC Research Leave Scheme 2006)
(co-bidder) Before Depression: Representation and Culture of the English Malady, 1660-1800, a 3-year collaborative project (2006-09) with the University of Sunderland funded by the Leverhulme Trust (224K)
Tristram Shandy and Eighteenth-Century Experimental Fiction (AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award 2009-12)
Affiliations and Memberships
Member of the AHRC Peer Review College as an academic and large collaborations reviewer
Member of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Selected Publications
James Thomson: Essays for the Tercentenary, ed. R. Terry (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000) [279pp].
Co-author with J. Strachan, Poetry (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000) [200pp]. Reprinted 2003, 2005. U.S. edition published by New York University Press (2001). Chinese edition published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press (2007). Revised and expanded second edition [240pp] published by Edinburgh University Press (2011).
Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past, 1660-1781 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
‘Pope and Plagiarism’, Modern Language Review, 100 (2005): 593-608.
Mock-Heroic from Butler to Cowper: An English Genre and Discourse (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005).
“Plagiarism”: A Literary Concept in England to 1775’, English: The Journal of the English Association, 57 (2007): 1-16.
The Plagiarism Allegation in English Literature from Butler to Sterne (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010).
Allan Ingram, Stuart Sim, Clark Lawlor, Richard Terry, John Baker and Leigh Wetherall Dickson, Melancholy Experience in Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century: Before Depression, 1660-1800 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) [256pp].
Depression in the Enlightenment I: Creative Melancholy / Melancholy Creativity, ed. Richard Terry, Studies in the Literary Imagination, 44:1 (Spring, 2011).
Depression in the Enlightenment II: Symptoms, Therapies, Endings, ed. Richard Terry, Studies in the Literary Imagination, 44:2 (Fall, 2011).
Melancholy Experience in Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century: Before Depression 1660-1800 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2011) (with Allan Ingram, Clark Lawlor, Stuart Sim, John Baker and Leigh Wetherall-Dickson).
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