Prof. Dr. Philip Shaw

I am a Professor in the Department of English, specialising in British Romantic literature, literary theory, and visual culture. I developed my interest in Romanticism while pursuing an undergraduate degree in English and Philosophy at the University of Liverpool in the late 1980s. Following the completion of my PhD on the poetry of Wordsworth and Byron I joined the Department of English at the University of Leicester where I have taught a wide range of subjects, including eighteenth and nineteenth century literature, the novel as a genre, literary theory, visual culture, and twentieth-century and contemporary literature.