Prof Nicholas Royle
| Post: | Emeritus Professor (English) |
| Other posts: | Professor Of English (Centre for Literature and Philosophy, Centre for Creative and Critical Thought) |
| Location: | ARTS B |
| Email: | N.W.O.Royle@sussex.ac.uk |
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Biography
Nicholas Royle has been Professor of English at the Â鶹´«Ã½ of Sussex since 1999. He established the MA/PhD programme in Creative and Critical Writing in 2001 and is founding director of the Centre for Creative and Critical Thought.
He has previously taught at the Â鶹´«Ã½ of Stirling, Scotland (1992-9), the Â鶹´«Ã½ of Tampere, Finland (1987-92) and at the Â鶹´«Ã½ 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:
An English Guide to Birdwatching: A Novel (2017)
An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory (Fifth edition, 2016, co-authored with Andrew Bennett)
This Thing Called Literature (2015, co-authored with Andrew Bennett)
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 the app Quick Fictions. He is currently completing a book entitled Hélène Cixous: Dreamer, Realist, Analyst, Writing.