Mark
Robson
BA (CNAA), MA (Reading), PhD (Leeds), PGCAP (Nottingham)
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My main interests are in Renaissance or early modern studies and in critical theory, particularly deconstruction, and it is the combination of these two interests that guides both my teaching and research. For more on my research, please see the details of publications and work in progress below.
In addition to my work in Nottingham, I have previously held posts at the universities of Manchester and Leeds, and I have also taught or delivered research papers in Argentina, Bermuda, Canada, Germany, Hungary and the USA, as well as at many institutions, seminars and conferences in the UK.
In 2004-05, I am teaching modules on early modern literature and culture, and on areas of critical theory. Please see the listing below. I would be happy to work with postgraduate students interested in either of these areas, and particularly with those who would like to bring the two together.
PUBLICATIONS
Book-length projects
Jacques Rancière: Aesthetics, Politics, Philosophy, ed. Mark Robson (Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press, 2005).
Published simultaneously as Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory
28.1 (2005), 117 pp.
Language in Theory: A Resource Book for Students (with Peter Stockwell),
Routledge English Language Introductions
(London and New York: Routledge, 2005), xviii + 176 pp.
The
Limits of Death: Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, ed. Joanne
Morra, Mark Robson and Marquard Smith
(Manchester and New York: Manchester University
Press, 2000), xxiv + 256 pp.
Articles and chapters in books
'Shakespeare's Words of the Future: Promising Richard III', Textual
Practice 19.1 (2005): 13-30
'Jacques Rancière's Aesthetic Communities', Paragraph 28.1 (2005): 77-95. Special issue: Jacques Rancière: aesthetics, politics, philosophy, ed. Mark Robson
'Introduction: Hearing Voices', Paragraph 28.1 (2005): 1-12. Special issue: Jacques Rancière: aesthetics, politics, philosophy, ed. Mark Robson
'Lady Hester Pulter', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2004)
'The Baby Bomber', Journal of Visual Culture 3.1 (2004): 63-76 [ISSN
1470-4129].
'Translatio Mori: Ellis Heywood's "Thomas More" ', in Travels and
Translations in the Sixteenth Century
ed. Mike Pincombe (Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004), pp.
73-87. [ISBN 0-7546-0832-8]
'Defending poetry, or, is there an early modern aesthetic?', in The new
aestheticism,
ed. John J. Joughin and Simon Malpas (Manchester and New York: Manchester
University Press, 2003), pp. 119-30.
[ISBN 0-7190-6138-5 (Hardback), 0-7190-6139-3 (Paperback)]
' "Trying to pick a lock with a wet herring": Hamlet, film,
and spectres of psychoanalysis'.
EnterText 1.2 (2001): 242-58. Special section: Hamlet on Film,
ed. Gabriel Egan.
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/faculty/arts/EnterText/hamlet/robson.pdf
[ISSN 1472 3085]
'Looking with ears, hearing with eyes: Shakespeare and the ear of the early
modern'.
Early Modern Literary Studies 7.1 (May, 2001): 10.1-23
<URL: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/07-1/robsears.htm
[ISSN 1201-2459]
'Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter'.
English Manuscript Studies, 1100 - 1700 9 (2000): 238-56.
Special issue: Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret
J. M. Ezell.
[ISBN 0-7123-4674-0]
'Editors' foreword' (with Joanne Morra and Marquard Smith), in the limits
of death: between philosophy and psychoanalysis,
ed. Joanne Morra, Mark Robson and Marquard Smith (Manchester and New York:
Manchester University Press/Palgrave, 2000), pp. xi-xiv.
'Writing Limits in William Roper's Life of Thomas More', in Writing the
Lives of Writers, ed. Warwick Gould and Thomas F. Staley
(Basingstoke and New York: Macmillan/St Martin's Press, 1998), pp. 79-89.
[ISBN (UK) 0-333-68461-3; (US) 0-312-21403-0]
'Wolfes wyfe', parallax 3 (1996), 95-97. [ISSN 1353-4645]
'Day of the Dead', in 'The Birthday of My Self': Martha Moulsworth, Renaissance
Poet, ed. Ann Depas-Orange and Robert C. Evans
(Princeton, NJ: Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and
Culture, 1996), pp. 93-97.
Published simultaneously as 'Day of the Dead', Critical Matrix: The Princeton
Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture 10 (1996), 93-97.
[ISSN 1066-288X]
Book-length projects
Rhetorics of the Early Modern: Reading the Senses in the Age of Shakespeare.
Contracted to Manchester University Press. A monograph which touches on texts
by, among others, William Shakespeare, Philip Sidney, Jacques Derrida, Thomas
More, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Hester Pulter.
Stephen Greenblatt. Contracted for the Routledge Critical Thinkers
series.
Figures of Hamlet: Readings in the Politics of Tragedy. An attempt
to read the figurations of the Western obsession with Hamlet within literature,
philosophy, film and visual culture.
Hester Pulter, Poems, ed. and intro. Mark Robson, Leeds Texts and Monographs
(Leeds Studies in English), 250 pp. A critical edition of a manuscript containing
120 poems written during the English Civil Wars by a previously 'unknown'
Royalist woman writer.
Articles and chapters in books
'Oedipal Visuality: Freud's Father Figures', for Post-Romantic Identities,
ed. Matt Green and Ed Larissy (Publisher to be confirmed)
'Impractical Criticism', for English: The Condition of the Subject, ed. Philip W. Martin (Publisher to be confirmed)
'The Ethics of Anonymity', for a collection on early modern anonymous publication
to be edited by Janet Wright Starner and Barbara Traister
(Details to be confirmed)
'Reading Hester Pulter Reading', for a Literature Compass 'panel' of papers
on Pulter
TEACHING
In 2004-05, I am teaching What is Literature? and Early Modern
Love, as well as contributing to Exploring Theory (Level 2), Understanding
Literary Culture (Level 2), and Reading Modern Literature (Level
1). Students registered on these latter modules should check WebCT.
What is literature?, Level D (MA). [2003
version]
CONTACT INFORMATION
School of English Studies
University of Nottingham
Nottingham
UK
NG7 2RD
Email: mark.robson@nottingham.ac.uk
Last revised: April 2005