Dr Ian Patterson, Queens'

ikp1000@cam.ac.uk

 

Biographical Information

I received my BA in English from Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1969 and returned to academia to do my PhD (https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/244805) in the 1990s. I held a Junior Research Fellowship at King's College, Cambridge from 1995 to 1999; since 1999 I have been a Fellow of Queens' College where, until 2018, I directed studies for Part II of the Tripos. I have now retired from teaching, and am a Life Fellow of Queens'.

 

Research Interests

Modernism, twentieth-century and contemporary literature, especially poetry. I have written on, and have a continuing interest in, poetry in the modernist tradition in Britain and the USA; contemporary fiction; literature and politics in the 1930s and after; literature and war, including pacifism and the Spanish Civil War; little magazines; forgotten writers; translation; psychoanalysis; Proust; and prosody. I'm interested in arguments about literary value, and the historical and cultural conditions of literary production, as well as in historical poetics.