Staff Profile
John Marland
Senior Lecturer in English Literature
I was a student of Philosophy before taking a second BA degree in English and American Literature, and an MA in Analytical Psychology. I taught at the Universities of Kent and London before coming to York St John University in 1993, where I have taught and developed undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Literature, Theatre, Film, Comparative Media and Scriptwriting.
- School – School of Humanities
- Email – j.marland@yorksj.ac.uk
- Phone – 01904 876 772
Further information
Teaching
As a Senior Lecture in Literature Studies, I currently specialise in the ‘Philosophy of Literature’, Narrative Theory, Modern Drama, Film Adaptation and Scriptwriting.
Much of my work is interdisciplinary in nature, and I teach across numerous programmes within the School of Humanities, including:
- BA English Literature
- BA Creative Writing
- BA Creative Writing and English Literature
- BA English Literature and Film Studies
- BA English Literature and History
- BA Media and English Literature
- BA English Literature and Religion
- MA Literary Studies
Modules I contribute to include:
- Introduction to Literature Studies
- Adaptation
- The Making of Modern Drama
- Scriptwriting
- Literary Studies Now
- Readers, Markets and Literary Value
- World, Globe, Literature
Research
My research interests include fictional representations of Christian faith, the impact of Psychoanalysis on Literary Modernism, Thomas Hardy and Hauntology, James Joyce and Dialogism, the Apophatic in Samuel Beckett, and the ‘Lyric Philosophy’ of Jan Zwicky.
