Dr Alex Wylie

Teaching

Between 2006 and 2017 I taught mainly in 19th- and 20th-century literature at Queen’s University Belfast. Modules I taught on include: Literature and the Great War (Third Year/module lead and co-lead); British Poetry 1880-1990 (MA/module lead); Criticism and Creativity core module (MA); British Poetry 1945-1990 (Third Year); American Fiction 1945-1960 (Third Year); Introduction to American Writing (Second Year); Literature and Society 1850-1930 (Second Year); Sounds of the City (First Year); English in Transition (First Year).

At York St John I work mainly on the Liberal Arts Foundation Year, and have also taught on modules in Literature (Gender and Sexualities; World, Globe Literature; Shakespeare: Perspectives; Historicizing the Contemporary; Writing, Research and Literature), Creative Writing (Introduction to Creative Writing), and Publishing (MA) (The Business of Publishing).

In academic year 2022/23, I am teaching on:

• LIB3001M: Eboracum: York, Space and Place
• LIB3007M: Identity and Otherness: The Self and Society (module lead)
• LIB3008M: Truth and Invention: Culture, Myth and Representation
• LIB3006M: Independent Project
• LIB3004M: Freedom and Justice (module lead)
• LIB3005M: Imagining the Future: Environment, Apocalypse and the Digital Revolution
• LIT7003: Historicizing the Contemporary

Research

I work in the fields of creative writing (poetry) and literature.

I am the author of Geoffrey Hill's Later Work: Radiance of Apprehension (Manchester UP, 2019), and 2 collections of poetry: Secular Games (2018) and Krishna's Anarchy (forthcoming November 2022). I have also published critical work, mainly on modern/contemporary poetry, in such places as Essays in Criticism, English: The Journal of the English Association, Cambridge Quarterly, Literary Imagination, and PN Review, as well as a chapter in the forthcoming book CH Sisson Reconsidered (Palgrave Macmillan, November 2022).

Publications and conferences

Critical monograph

Geoffrey Hill’s Later Work: Radiance of Apprehension. 200pp. Manchester University Press: Manchester, 2019. ISBN: 978-1-5261-2494-4

Poetry collections

Krishna’s Anarchy. Black Spring Press Group/Eyewear, London. (Forthcoming November 2022.)

Secular Games. 84pp. Eyewear Publishing, London: 2018. ISBN: 978-1912477241. (Shortlisted for Melita Hume Prize, 2016.)

New Poetries V. Michael Schmidt, Eleanor Crawforth eds. Carcanet, Manchester: 2011. ISBN: 978-1 847771-31-5. Nine poems.

Landing Places: Immigrant Poets in Ireland. Eva Bourke and Borbála Faragó eds. and intro. Dedalus: Dublin, 2011. ISBN: 9781906614218. Four poems.

Incertus. W.R. Irvine ed. Netherlea Press: Belfast, 2007. ISBN: 978-0955798504. Ten poems.

Journal articles

‘A Proxy for Submission: On Taste and Tastefulness in Contemporary Poetry’. PN Review 267, September-October 2022.

‘The Bureaucratic Sublime: On the Secret Joys of Contemporary Poetry’. PN Review 262, November-December 2021.

‘Democratic Rags: On the “Democratic” in Contemporary Poetry’. PN Review 251, January-February 2020.

‘Ivor Gurney’s Imperfection’. Essays in Criticism, Volume 68, Issue 1, January 2018, pp. 54-73, https://doi.org/10.1093/escrit/cgx029. Oxford University Press, 2018.

‘“Soft aftershocks of calm”: Order and Anarchy in Geoffrey Hill’s For the Unfallen’. Literary Imagination, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 259-273, doi:10.1093/litimag/imvo31. Oxford University Press, 2015.

‘Bunting and the Vile Patterns of Expediency’. Essays in Criticism, Volume 65, Issue 3, pp. 305-325, https://doi.org/10.1093/escrit/cgv014. Oxford University Press, 2015.

‘“It is not anyone’s dream”: C.H. Sisson’s Utopias’. Cambridge Quarterly, Volume 44, Issue 1, pp. 25-42, https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfv004. Oxford University Press, 2015.

‘“This: ad Socium?”: Verbal Power in Geoffrey Hill’s The Triumph of Love’. English, 2014, vol. 63, no. 243, pp. 330-346, doi:10/.1093/english/efu020. Oxford University Press. November 2014.

‘Sisson’s Troy’. PN Review 217, May-June 2014.

‘“Things that other people have desired”: The Contexts of T.S. Eliot’s “Portrait of a Lady”’. The Journal of the T.S. Eliot Society, 2014.

‘Eros in Geoffrey Hill’s Scenes from Comus’. English, Volume 60, Issue 230, Autumn 2011, Pages 198-211, https://doi.org/10.1093/english/efr003. Oxford University Press, 2011.

‘Prophet and Citizen: Fifty Years of Geoffrey Hill’s For the Unfallen’. PN Review 190, November-December 2009.

Book chapter

‘“Here lies a civil servant”: C.H. Sisson and the Possibility of Honesty’, Revisiting C.H. Sisson. Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming November 2022.  

Conference papers

‘'Here lies a civil servant': C.H. Sisson and the Possibility of Honesty.’ Revisiting C.H. Sisson: Modernist, Classicist, Translator. Brigham Young University / King’s College London, April 2017.

‘‘For Whom Should I Build?': Place and Self in Basil Bunting’. The British and Irish Contemporary Poetry Conference, Queen’s University Belfast, 2010.

‘Context and Circumscription in Geoffrey Hill's 'Funeral Music'’. Geoffrey Hill and His Contexts. Keble College, Oxford, 2008.

‘"What did you say?": Silence and Logorrhoea in John Berryman and Geoffrey Hill.’ Waste and Abundance. Queen’s University Belfast, 2007.

‘'Not Unworded. Enworded': Geoffrey Hill, Difficulty, and Silence.’ The British and Irish Contemporary Poetry Conference, St. Anne’s College, Oxford, 2006.

Professional activities

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a mentor on the HEA accreditation scheme. I work as Progression Route Coordinator on the Liberal Arts Foundation Year. I am am member of the York Centre for Writing research group at York St John.