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.
Publications
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Marland, J. (2026) ‘Dancing on the Edge: Shamanic Healing in Alan Garner’s Thursbitch’ in Edgar, Robert, Johnson, Wayne and Marland, John (eds. 2026) Alan Garner and the Work of Time. Manchester University Press
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Edgar, Robert, Johnson, Wayne and Marland, John (eds. 2026) Alan Garner and the Work of Time. Manchester University Press
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Edgar, R. Marland, J. and Stephenson, L. (eds. 2024) Horrifying Children: Hauntology and the Legacy of Children’s Television. Bloomsbury
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Edgar, R. Marland, J. and Smith, A G. (2023) Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition. Bloomsbury
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Edgar, R. and Marland, J. (2019) Adaptation for Screenwriters. Bloomsbury
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Edgar, R. Marland, J. and Rawle, S. (2010 and 2015) The Language of Film. Bloomsbury
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Edgar, R. Marland, J. and Richards, J. (2009) Screenwriting. AVA Books.
Conferences
- ‘Dialogue, Dialogism and the Other’ (3rd IAJS International Conference, Cornell University, August 2010)
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‘Modernism’s Dialogue with the Unconscious’ (Centre for Myth Studies, Essex University, September 2010)
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‘Developing Images Through Dialogue’ (2nd IAJS International Conference, Cardiff University, July 2009).
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‘Healing the Wound of Time: Symbols of Original Wholeness in Contemporary American Film’ (First Joint IAJS/IAAP Conference, Zurich, July 2008).
