Gabriel Rolfe, Magdalene

Biographical Information

I am a Vice-Chancellor's and Magdalene College Scholar with various research interests. Some of these include: post-Romantic philology, Australian literature, universities, the life and work of the Baron Corvo, and the history, theory, and practice of English poetry. My own poem, 'Nullarbor', recently received the John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan Prize.

I have supervised undergraduate work for the English Tripos Part IA, 'Practical Criticism and Critical Practice', and Part II, 'History & Theory of Literary Criticism'. Previously I read English as an undergraduate at Magdalen College, Oxford, and as a postgraduate at University College London, where I was awarded the John Oliver Hobbes Memorial Scholarship in Modern English Literature. 

My doctoral thesis, due to be completed this summer, is a comparative study of the work of Geoffrey Hill and J.H. Prynne in the context of the post-War university in Britain, drawing upon extensive archival material relating to both Hill and Prynne's academic employment.