Ballot Archive

07 Feb 2019

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Dale Townshend

Academic degrees, honours etc.

BA, MA, PhD

Profession or occupation

Professor of Gothic Literature

Grounds for election

Dale Townshend has published extensively on late 18th- and early 19th-century Gothic poetry, romance, drama and chapbooks. His current research interests include the connections between architecture, antiquarianism and Gothic fiction, poetry and drama in the long eighteenth century. The recipient of an AHRC Leadership fellowship, Writing Britain’s Ruins, 1700-1850: The Architectural Imagination (2015-2017), he has recently completed two books: the first, Writing Britain’s Ruins (co-edited with Michael Carter and Peter N. Lindfield; British Library, 2017), and the second, Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance, and the Architectural Imagination, 1760-1840 (forthcoming 2018). His current research interests include the connections between architecture, antiquarianism and Gothic fiction, poetry and drama in the long eighteenth century. Together with Angela Wright and Catherine Spooner, he is currently at work on The Cambridge History of the Gothic, to be published by CUP in 2020.

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