Newcastle University

Roles

I'm assisting the Dean of Postgraduate Studies in the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences in a bid to the Arts and Humanities Research Council for postgraduate research studentships under the BGP2 programme. 

I'm an external examiner for undergraduate degrees in English at the Universities of Aberdeen and Sheffield.

Qualifications

MA, DPhil (Oxford)

Interests

Poetry, life-writing and political discourse in late C18 and early C19 Britain and Europe; the Shelleys; textual editing.

PhD supervision

Wordsworth’s poetry and Trauma theory (2009), Codes of manliness in 1790s writing (2010), Goethe's Faust and the poetry of Byron and Shelley (2011), Memory in William Wordsworth and George Eliot (2011), The philosophy of death in the poetry of Wordsworth and Shelley (2012); Political economy in Shelley's prose (2013); The man of feeling and nationhood, 1760-1820 (2013).

PhD externalling

Birkbeck, University of London (2008); King's College London (2010). 

Funding

British Academy Overseas Conference Grant (2008).

Advisory/Editorial Boards

L'Analisi linguistici e letteraria; The Oxford University Press Edition of the Works of Robert Burns; The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe (ex officio); The Shelley-Godwin Archive.

Peer reviewing

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2013); Agenzia Nazionale di Valutazione del Sistema Universitario e della Ricerca (Italy) (2013); National Research Foundation (South Africa) (2010). 

Subject Association Memberships

British Association for Romantic Studies; North American Society for the Study of Romanticism.

Conference/Visiting Speaker papers

Bologna (2008); Cambridge (2011); Glasgow (2009, 2012); Milan (2012); Oxford (2010, 2013); Turin (2010).

International conference organization

Co-convenor of 'From the Renaissance to the Risorgimento: British Perceptions of Italy as a Nation State, Between Aesthetics and Ethics' Round Table, ESSE 10 conference, University of Turin (2010).

Co-organiser of 'Republican exchanges c.1550-c.1850' conference (http://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/republicanexchanges), Newcastle University (2009).

Convenor of ‘Romantic Republicanism’ Special Session, '(Trans)National Identities/Reimagining Communities' CISR/NASSR conference, University of Bologna (2008).

Visiting Fellowships

St Catherine's College, Oxford (2012).

Public engagement

'Shelley's Ghost' exhibition lunchtime lecture, The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (2011).

Current work

I'm co-ordinating editor of the fifth volume of 'The Poems of Shelley' in the 'Longman Annotated English Poets' series (see 'Projects', below), and am preparing a monograph on Shelley and republicanism.

Projects

• The Poems of Shelley
  Project Leader(s): Dr. Jack Donovan (University of York), Dr. Michael Rossington (Newcastle University).

Revolutionary Britain (SEL2203) 

Romantic Poetry (SEL3305)

Place and Pilgrimage (SEL8341) 

Manuscript, Print, Digital (SEL8353) 

• Rossington M, Donovan J, Everest K. The Poems of Shelley, Volume 4: 1820-21. Longman Annotated English Poets 2013. London and New York: Longman. In Preparation.
• Rossington M. Editing Shelley. In: O'Neill, M., Howe, A. with the assistance of Madeleine Callaghan, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp.645-656.
• Rossington M. Tragedy: The Cenci and Swellfoot the Tyrant. In: O'Neill, M., Howe, A. with the assistance of Madeleine Callaghan, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp.299-308.
• Donovan J, Duffy C, Everest K, Rossington M, eds. The Poems of Shelley, Volume 3: 1819-20. Longman Annotated English Poets series 2011. London and New York: Longman, 784 pp.
• Monahan J. A Critic's Perspective on Frankenstein. emagazine: the magazine for Advanced Level English 2010, (49), 33-37.
• Rossington M. Mary Shelley’s Short Stories Notebook in the Bodleian Library. La questione Romantica: Rivista interdisciplinare di studi romantici 2009, n.s. 1(1: Mary Shelley Special Issue in Memory of Betty T. Bennett), 113-117.
• Rossington M. Republican histories and memories: The Shelleys, Switzerland and Geneva. In: Cossy, V; Kapossy, B; Whatmore, R, ed. Genève, lieu d’Angleterre 1725-1814 / Geneva, an English Enclave 1725-1814. Geneva: Slatkine, 2009, pp.307-325.
• Rossington M. Shelley's Neapolitan-Tuscan poetics: 'Sonnet: Political Greatness' and the 'Republic' of Benevento. In: Alan M. Weinberg and Timothy Webb, ed. The Unfamiliar Shelley. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009, pp.137-156.
• Rossington M. Theorizing a republican poetics: P. B. Shelley and Alfieri. European Romantic Review (Special Issue: Transforming Tragedy, Identity and Community) 2009, 20(5), 619-628.
• Rossington M. Beyond Nation: Shelley's European Dramas. In: Crisafulli LM; Pietropoli C, ed. The Languages of Performance in British Romanticism. Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, 2008, pp.83-95.
• Rossington M. Rousseau and Tacitus: republican inflections in the Shelleys' History of a Six Weeks' Tour. European Romantic Review 2008, 19(4), 321-333.
• Schmid S, Rossington M, ed. The Reception of P. B. Shelley in Europe. London and New York: Continuum, 2008.