Staff Profile

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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.