Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

Member of the Modern Humanities Research Association Executive Committee

Qualifications

M.A. Ph.D. (Cantab.), M.A. (New Brunswick)

Research Interests

My continuing research is in the Victorian period, with particular reference to the Pre-Raphaelites, Ruskin, Tennyson, Dickens, Victorian poetry as a genre and the relationship between Victorian literature and the visual arts. My most recent publication in the field is LADY TREVELYAN AND THE PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD,(Chatto & Windus, 2006).

Other Expertise

Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, H.G. Wells and other figures within the Modernist period (1895-1939). My books include a critical biography of Joseph Conrad (1994) and monographs on H.G. Wells (1985) and Virginia Woolf (1991).

Current Work

Preparation of a new biography of TENNYON, to be published by Chatto & Windus 2013, and separate research articles on Tennyson and Conrad.

Future Research

Literature and science in the late 19th century.

Esteem Indicators

Former Fellow of New College, Oxford; Joseph Cowen Professor of English Literature, Newcastle University, 1990-2007; Founding Fellow of the English Association; Adjunct Professor of the University of Lancaster (in association with the Ruskin Programme) 2002; Formerly editor of Modern Language Review and The Yearbook of English Studies, 2004-2011, and currently an executive member of the MHRA which publishes those two journals.

• Batchelor J. Lady Trevelyan and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. London:Chatto and Windus,2006.
• Batchelor J. Alfred Tennyson: Problems of Biography. The Yearbook of English Studies 2006,36 2 78-95.
• Batchelor J. Edwardian Literature. In:Bloom, H., ed. Edwardian to Georgian Fiction.New York:Chelsea House,2005, pp. 123-150.
• Batchelor J. Lord Jim at the Frontier. English 2007, 56(214), 29-39.
• Batchelor JB. John Ruskin: no wealth but life: a biography. London: Pimlico, 2001.
• Batchelor JB. Conrad and Wells at the End of the Century. The Critical Review, 38. 1998.
• Batchelor JB. Lord Jim à la frontière. in Lord Jim (original essays ed. and tr.Joseph Dobrinsky). Paris: Editions Autrement. 1998.
• Batchelor JB. Shakespearean Continuities: Essays in Honour of E.A.J. Honigmann. (ed. with T. Cain and C. Lamont) Macmillan, 411pp 1997.
• Batchelor JB. Ruskin and Shakespeare. Shakespearean Continuities: Essays in Honour of E.A.J. Honigmann, ed. J. Batchelor, T. Cain and C. Lamont, Macmillan 1997.
• Batchelor JB. The Art of Literary Biography. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 300pp 1995.
• Batchelor JB. The Life of Joseph Conrad: A Critical Biography. Blackwell, 344pp (paperback 1996, published in translation into French, 1997 by Editions Autrement, Paris) 1994.
• Batchelor JB. Virginia Woolf: The Major Novels. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1991.
• Batchelor JB. Lord Jim. Unwin Critical Library Series, Unwin Hyman 1988.
• Batchelor JB. Joseph Conrad's Victory. World's Classics, Oxford: OUP 1986.
• Batchelor JB. H.G. Wells. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985 1985.
• Batchelor JB. Lord Jim. (ed.) World's Classics, Oxford: OUP 1983.
• Batchelor JB. The Edwardian Novelists. Duckworth 1982.
• Batchelor JB. Mervyn Peake: a Biographical and Critical Exploration. Duckworth 1974.