Guy Cuthbertson

 

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).

 

 

 

 

 

 

• I discussed my work on Thomas at the Centre for the History of the Book, Edinburgh, 28 February 2020.
• I took part in the Edward Thomas Literary Festival on 3 October 2020, with a talk on The Icknield Way and as part of a panel on Thomas and Robert Frost.
• I spoke at the Edward Thomas Fellowship Study Day on 12 June 2021 – the title of the talk was ‘”Run hard hounds”: Edward Thomas and dogs’.
• I spoke at the Edward Thomas Literary Festival in October 2021: ‘Pike, Popler, Oram, and Fatt’: Exploring Churchyards, Graves and Epitaphs with Edward Thomas.
• I interviewed my wife Caroline Crampton for the podcast Shedunnit (6 October 2021).
• On 3 March 2022, I gave my inaugural professorial lecture at Liverpool Hope: ‘A Return to Nature: The pursuit of “the simple life”, from Edward Thomas to the present day’.  The recording is now available on YouTube.
• I wrote a chapter on Edward Thomas and Walter de la Mare for Walter de la Mare: Critical Appraisals.
• On 8 October, I spoke about The Icknield Way at the Edward Thomas Literary Festival 2022.  I was also part of a joint event with the Robert Frost Society.
• Peace at Last was published in paperback in December 2022.
• I appeared on the BBC’s In Our Time, discussing Wilfred Owen, on 27 October 2022. (‘Today’s Pick’, The Times, 27 October 2022.)
• I presented the 100th episode of Shedunnit, ‘The Shedunnit Centenary’, 2 November 2022.  BBC Sounds.
• I spoke about Peace at Last at the National Army Museum in London on 11 November 2022.
• I wrote a chapter on Edward Thomas for A History of World War One Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
• I wrote an essay on ‘Edward Thomas and the Mundays of East Meon’ for the Edward Thomas Fellowship Newsletter, 89 (January 2023).
• I wrote and presented an episode of Shedunnit (BBC Sounds) on ‘The Death of the Country House’ in February 2023.