Guy Cuthbertson

Guy Cuthbertson

I am a Professor of British Literature and Culture.  My wife Caroline Crampton and I live on the Wirral, along with Morris our Clumber spaniel.  Our shared interests are wide-ranging, including dogs, Orkney, the Arts and Crafts Movement, Edwardian and interwar literature, trains, the countryside, clutter, and many other things, but Caroline is best known for her love of Golden Age detective fiction (she is the host of Shedunnit).  Caroline’s wonderful new book is A Body Made of Glass.  You can see more about her book here.

 

 
I studied at St Andrews University (first-class MA, with the Class Medal, the Rutherford Prize and the Wyatt-Fenty Prize) and then at The Queen’s College, Oxford University (M.Phil and D.Phil, both funded by the AHRC).  I have held lectureships at Oxford (St Edmund Hall and Merton), Swansea, Brighton and London (Queen Mary) as well as a teaching fellowship at St Andrews.  I was a Moore Institute Visiting Research Fellow at NUI Galway during 2015-16, and an Ernest Walder Memorial Scholar at Gladstone’s Library during 2017.  I gave the British Academy’s Chatterton Lecture on Poetry in November 2018.
 
 
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Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918, was published by Yale University Press in October 2018 (£18.99 in hardback).  My biography of Wilfred Owen was published by Yale University Press in 2014 and then in paperback in October 2015.
 
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I am a General Editor, with Lucy Newlyn, of the six-volume Oxford University Press edition of Edward Thomas’s prose, and I have edited the first two volumes: Autobiographies was published in March 2011, and then England and Wales (co-edited with Lucy Newlyn) was published in November that year.  I am now editing the sixth volume, Pilgrimages.
 
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I have written a number of articles and chapters on Edward Thomas, most recently a chapter on Edward Thomas for A Cambridge History of World War One Poetry.  I have also co-edited, with Lucy Newlyn, a successful anthology called Branch-Lines: Edward Thomas and Contemporary Poetry (Enitharmon, 2007).
 
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External Examining: Edge Hill University; Royal Holloway, University of London (PhD); University of Exeter (PhD); University of Durham (PhD).
 
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I have made a number of appearances on national and regional television and radio, and in the past few years I have given talks about the First World War at a wide range of places (literary festivals, bookshops, museums, schools, libraries, churches, universities, arts centres, a cinema, a pub).
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Two interviews with me:

Five Books 

Stromness Books