Staff Profile
Dr Jonathan Quayle
Lecturer in Romantic Literature
- Email: jonathan.quayle@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: 0191 208 7753
- Address: School of English Literature, Language & Linguistics
Percy Building
Newcastle University
Newcastle, U.K.
NE1 7RU
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I was awarded my AHRC-funded PhD at Newcastle University in 2017.
I am currently working on a research project—Utopia Unbound—based on my thesis research into Shelley’s utopian poetry and ideas about the future in the Romantic period. My research is focussed on Romantic and eighteenth-century utopianism, the work of Percy Shelley, and utopian poetry more generally.
In 2019-2020 I worked in collaboration with the British School at Rome on a British Academy-funded project, ‘Mobilising Utopia’.
I have previously worked in the E-Learning sector and have a long-standing interest in online learning solutions.
Research Interests
Eighteenth-century and Romantic literature ∙ Shelley and his circle ∙ Utopian poetry ∙ Romanticism and the future ∙ nineteenth-century radicalism ∙ the role of the poet ∙ speculative science fiction ∙ migration and mobility ∙ utopian or dystopian literature of any period
Stage One:
SEL1003: Introduction to Literary Studies II
SEL1023: Transformations
SEL1030: Close Reading
Stage Two:
SEL2203: Revolutionary Britain, 1789-1832
SEL2202: Writing New Worlds, 1660-1800
SEL2210: Independent Research Project
Stage Three:
SEL3362: Dissertation in English Literature
I have also led workshops at the Keats-Shelley House museum as part of the Northern Bridge Winter School at the British School at Rome in 2018, 2019, and 2020.
- Quayle JAD. ‘Directing the ‘Unfinished Scene’: Utopia and the Role of the Poet in Shelley’s Hellas’. Romanticism 2020, 26(3).
- Quayle JAD. Utopia Unbound. 2023. In Preparation.