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Dr Richard Robinson

Athro Cyswllt

English Literature

+44 (0) 1792 602796

r.p.robinson@abertawe.ac.uk

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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2097-1931

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Mae Richard yn Athro Cysylltiol yn yr Adran Llenyddiaeth, y Cyfryngau ac Iaith, lle mae'n Gyd-gyfarwyddwr sefydlu’r Grŵp Ymchwil Ymarfer Creadigol a Beirniadol. Ei brif feysydd arbenigedd yw ffuglen gyfoes a'r ugeinfed ganrif, yn enwedig moderniaeth, moderniaeth hwyr, ysgrifennu Gwyddelig ac astudio gororau llenyddol Ewrop. Mae'n awdur dau fonograff: Narratives of the European Border: A History of Nowhere (Palgrave, 2007) a John McGahern and Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2017). Mae'n cyhoeddi mewn cyfnodolion megis Critical Quarterly, Modern Fiction Studies, James Joyce Quarterly, Irish University Review, Journal of European Studies, Textual Practice ac English Studies. Mae'n adolygu llyfrau ar gyfer The Guardian (yma ac yma) ac mae'n aelod o fwrdd golygyddol The Journal of European Studies.

Ar hyn o bryd, mae Richard yn gweithio ar arddull a ffuglen gyfoes. Mae wedi golygu ar y cyd (gyda Barry Sheils) rifyn arbennig o Textual Practice, The Contemporary Problem of Style (2022). Mae wrthi'n cyd-ysgrifennu (gyda Barry Sheils) monograff o'r enw The Discipline of Style: Sentence, Voice, Description and Translation in Contemporary Fiction.

Meysydd Arbenigedd

Ysgrifennu Modern a Chyfoes yn Saesneg, gan gynnwys Kazuo Ishiguro
Astudiaethau Gwyddelig, gan gynnwys James Joyce a John McGahern
Astudiaethau ffiniau, gyda diddordeb arbennig mewn argraffiadau o Ganol Ewrop
Hanes disgyblaethol arddull

Uchafbwyntiau Gyrfa

Diddordebau Addysgu

Mae Richard wedi addysgu ar yr holl raglenni llenyddiaeth yn Abertawe am yr 17 mlynedd diwethaf, gyda ffocws ar foderniaeth (yn enwedig James Joyce, y mae'n cynnal modiwl MA ar ei waith), ffuglen gyfoes, damcaniaeth ac athroniaeth lenyddol. Mae wedi goruchwylio nifer o brosiectau PhD nes iddynt gael eu cwblhau ar foderniaeth ac ysgrifennu cyfoes. Mae'n Gyfarwyddwr Rhaglen yr MA mewn Llenyddiaeth Saesneg ar hyn o bryd ac yn arweinydd adran ar gyfer y Fframwaith Rhagoriaeth Ymchwil (REF 2029). Mae wedi bod yn Gyfarwyddwr Rhaglen BA, yn Swyddog Arholiadau ac yn Swyddog Derbyn. Mae'n trefnu paneli a phapurau rheolaidd ar gyfer y Grŵp Creadigol-Beirniadol, gan gynnwys sesiynau diweddar ar awtoffuglen, addasiadau, ysgrifennu cwiar a chyfieithu. Yn aml bydd yn cymryd rhan mewn digwyddiadau allgymorth gydag ysgolion ac ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd (yma ac yma).

Ymchwil

Cyhoeddiadau

Uchafbwyntiau Ymchwil

Robinson, R. (n.d.) Proust, McGahern, and Memoir: the Déjà Lu. In Michael Cronin and Max McGuinness (Ed.), The Irish Proust Bloomsbury Academic
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa68704
Robinson, R. & Sheils, B. (2022). The contemporary problem of style. Textual Practice, 36(4), 473-500.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2022.2030510, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65628
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2022.2030510
Robinson, R. & Preece, J. (2024). Central Europe. In Petra Rau William T. Rossiter (Ed.), Europe in British Literature and Culture (pp. 53-69). Cambridge University Press
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009425483.006, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67858
Robinson, R. (2023). “Many Strange Tongues” in the Fenlands: The Buried Giant as Brexit Allegory?. English Studies, 103(7), 1-20.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2022.2150941, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61930
Robinson, R. (2022). A Problem of Middlebrow Style: Dialect and Translation in Elena Ferrante’s Naples Tetralogy. Textual Practice, 36(4), 582-604.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2022.2030514, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59154

Holl Ymchwil

Erthyglau Cylchgronau

Robinson, R. (2023). “Many Strange Tongues” in the Fenlands: The Buried Giant as Brexit Allegory?. English Studies, 103(7), 1-20.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2022.2150941, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61930
Robinson, R. & Sheils, B. (2022). The contemporary problem of style. Textual Practice, 36(4), 473-500.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2022.2030510, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65628
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2022.2030510
Robinson, R. (2022). A Problem of Middlebrow Style: Dialect and Translation in Elena Ferrante’s Naples Tetralogy. Textual Practice, 36(4), 582-604.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2022.2030514, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59154
Robinson, R. & Sheils, B. (2022). The contemporary problem of style. Textual Practice, 36(4), 473-500.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2022.2030510, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59153
Robinson, R. & Sheils, B. (2015). The Violation of Style: Englishness in Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels. Textual Practice, 1-22.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2015.1059030, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa22013
Robinson, R. (2014). An Umbrella, a Pair of Boots, and a 'Spacious Nothing': McGahern and Beckett. Irish University Review, 44(2), 323-340.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa30563
Robinson, R. (2010). The Modernism of Ian McEwan’s 'Atonement'. MFS Modern Fiction Studies, 56(3), 473-495.
https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2010.0015, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11458
Robinson, R. (2006). Nowhere, in Particular: Kazuo Ishiguro’s 'The Unconsoled' and Central Europe. Critical Quarterly, 48(4), 107-130.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa30593
Robinson, R. (2006). From Border to Front: Italo Svevo's 'La Coscienza di Zeno' and International Space. Journal of European Studies, 36(3), 243-268.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa30594

Llyfrau Awdurol

Robinson, R. (2016). John McGahern and Modernism (1st. ed.). Bloomsbury Academic.
https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472544117, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa30108
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/john-mcgahern-and-modernism-9781441125781
Robinson, R. (2007). Narratives of the European Border: A History of Nowhere Palgrave Macmillan.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa357

Penodau Llyfrau

Robinson, R. & Preece, J. (2024). Central Europe. In Petra Rau William T. Rossiter (Ed.), Europe in British Literature and Culture (pp. 53-69). Cambridge University Press
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009425483.006, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67858
Robinson, R. (2019). 'Not Even a Shadow of Violence': Undead History in John McGahern's Anglo-Irish Short Stories. Assessing a Literary Legacy: Essays on John McGahern (pp. 28-44). Cork University Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa36095
Robinson, R. (2013). ‘That Dubious Enterprise, the Irish Short Story’: The Untilled Field and Dubliners. James Joyce in the Nineteenth Century (pp. 46-60). Cambridge University Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11189
http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/english-literature-1900-1945/james-joyce-nineteenth-century
Robinson, R. (2010). 'The Dangerous Edge of Things': Geopolitical Bodies and Cold War fiction. Conflict, Nationhood and Corporeality in Modern Literature: Bodies-at-War (pp. 185-204). Palgrave Macmillan
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11457
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=364057
Robinson, R. (2009). 'To Give a Name, Is That Still to Give?': Footballers and Film Actors in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled. Kazuo Ishiguro: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (pp. 67-78). Continuum
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11459
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/kazuo-ishiguro-9780826497246/
Robinson, R. (2007). ‘Buckley in a General Russia: Finnegans Wake and Political Space’ in Joyce in Trieste: An Album of Risky Readings. (pp. 1University Press of Florida
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa361
Robinson, R. (n.d.) Proust, McGahern, and Memoir: the Déjà Lu. In Michael Cronin and Max McGuinness (Ed.), The Irish Proust Bloomsbury Academic
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa68704

Goruchwyliaeth

The Penthos Principle (cyfredol)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Alan Bilton
Fiction on the women's revolution (cyfredol)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Francesca Rhydderch
Arnold Bennett: A Critical Re-evaluation of his novels and literary criticism (cyfredol)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Prof Daniel Williams
The tyranny of non-objectivity: The philosophical and legal systems of authoritarian regimes in dystopian literature, 1932–1958, examined from Ayn Rand’s perspective on authoritarianism. (dyfarnwyd 2025)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Prof Daniel Williams
Gutenberg Galaxy to Google Galaxy – Contemporary Literature, Technology, and the Legacies of Modernism and Postmodernism (dyfarnwyd 2023)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Dr Rachel Farebrother
Navigating Borderlands: The Literary Landscape of Climate Migration (subject to review.) (cyfredol)

MPhil

Goruchwyliwr arall: Prof Owen Sheers

Modiwlau a Addysgir

EN-120 English Essentials

This is a skills-based module which will equip students with the technical and critical expertise that is necessary for their academic journey in English Literature and Creative Writing. It is designed to support the transition from post-16 study to undergraduate study and to show students *how* to become successful scholars of English. How should we read texts? How do we write essays? Focusing on an exciting anthology of texts selected by the English academics at Swansea, this team-taught module uncovers the power of written language. We will explore how writers inspire and challenge their readers, how to think critically, how to close-read, how to construct powerful arguments and how to produce written work that is rigorous, academic and convincing. This module empowers students to think, write, and persuade.
EN-206 Debating Texts: Theory in Literature

Literature prompts debate, and speaks to us differently depending on the questions that we ask of it. This course looks at how our understanding of meaning in literature changes when we think about critical debates concerning the role of history, language and subjectivity in texts. We take three very different texts from different periods, and look at the ways in which the texts (and debates around them) raise questions of history, language and subjectivity, and how the texts comment on these issues. We begin with a classic of 19th century realism, Charles Dickens's HARD TIMES (1854), move on to the groundbreaking work of modernist experiment, Virginia Woolf's MRS DALLOWAY (1925), and end with a powerful example of postmodern representation, Toni Morrison's BELOVED (1987). The course will be taught by a formal lecture followed by a discussion forum, in which short passages of literary and theoretical text will be read and debated in the lecture theatre.
EN-207 Revolution of the Word: Modernism

An introduction to Modernist literature, focussing upon its origins in response to the crisis of modernity, its engagement with colonialism and the First World War, its formal experimentation, its depiction of city-life and its engagement with new ideas of gender and the unconscious.
EN-M31 Dissertation

Individual project devised and defined in discussion between supervisor and student.
EN-M69 James Joyce and Literary Theory

This module is centred on the detailed study of the magnus opus of the Anglophone modernist novel, James Joyce's Ulysses (1922). We begin by considering the relationship between late nineteenth century naturalism (in fiction and drama) and symbolism ( in poetry) and how these aesthetic tensions informed Joyce's early development into what we now call a modernist writer. Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man introduces us to Stephen Dedalus as he formulates his theories of language and art: this is an ironic Bildungsroman of a writer not yet capable of composing Ulysses. Our study of Ulysses concentrates on individual chapters, or pairs of chapters, which are tied to modernist thematics. We discuss the following:the transformation of the supposedly omniscient narrative voice into that of the impersonal "Arranger" of the artwork; the mind of Stephen and the body of Bloom, or soul and matter; debates between Irish cultural nationalism (voiced by the Citizen) and utopian cosmopolitanism (voiced by Bloom, a Jewish Irishman); a parody of the history of English letters and of rationalist encyclopaedism; Molly's interior life, and how mimetically it is rendered. As an aftertaste, we then scrutinise an excerpt- a mere twenty six pages - of Joyce's Finnegans Wake: "Shem the Penman" is, by now a late modernist portrait of the exiled artist. We conclude by tracing Joyce's critical reputation ( not always as secure as it is now0 in Ireland, the United States and Britain, and touch on ways in which signs of Joycean textuality are to be found in more recent fiction.
EN-M80 Practising Ideas: Advanced Research Skills in English / Contemporary Writing / Welsh Writing in English

This module is designed to introduce you to key practical and conceptual tools necessary for scholarship at Master¿s level and beyond. The aim is for you to gain the competencies and confidence to complete and enjoy the degree. In a seminar and occasional workshop format, you will practise a range of core professional research skills. You will be encouraged to reflect on your own learning and academic development to become a more independent and self-directed lifelong learner. You will produce a Portfolio of assessed work. These activities will support your work in other MA modules, particularly EN-M41 Research Practice and your EN-M31 Dissertation, while also equipping you with a set of transferable skills that are highly valued by many employers.
EN-M89 Publishing: Cultures and Contexts

This team-taught module introduces students to different cultures and contexts of the publishing industry and its history. Students will gain both practical and intellectual skills across a range of topics taught by staff from English Literature and Creative Writing. The module begins with focused seminars on book history and print culture, and then moves on to workshops in which students will gain a familiarity with industry terminology and the mechanisms of the book trade. Students will be able to choose from different methods of assessment that develop academic or industry-focused skills.

Hanes Gyrfa

Darlithydd, Uwch Ddarlithydd, Athro Cyswllt , Prifysgol Abertawe

Medi 2007 - Presennol

Dr Richard Robinson

Rhif ffôn

Cyfeiriad ebost

Welsh language proficiency

Dolenni Ymchwil

Trosolwg

Meysydd Arbenigedd

Uchafbwyntiau Gyrfa

Cyhoeddiadau

Uchafbwyntiau Ymchwil

Holl Ymchwil

Erthyglau Cylchgronau

Llyfrau Awdurol

Penodau Llyfrau

Goruchwyliaeth

The Penthos Principle (cyfredol)

Fiction on the women's revolution (cyfredol)

Arnold Bennett: A Critical Re-evaluation of his novels and literary criticism (cyfredol)

The tyranny of non-objectivity: The philosophical and legal systems of authoritarian regimes in dystopian literature, 1932–1958, examined from Ayn Rand’s perspective on authoritarianism. (dyfarnwyd 2025)

Gutenberg Galaxy to Google Galaxy – Contemporary Literature, Technology, and the Legacies of Modernism and Postmodernism (dyfarnwyd 2023)

Navigating Borderlands: The Literary Landscape of Climate Migration (subject to review.) (cyfredol)

Modiwlau a Addysgir

EN-120 English Essentials

EN-206 Debating Texts: Theory in Literature

EN-207 Revolution of the Word: Modernism

EN-M31 Dissertation

EN-M69 James Joyce and Literary Theory

EN-M80 Practising Ideas: Advanced Research Skills in English / Contemporary Writing / Welsh Writing in English

EN-M89 Publishing: Cultures and Contexts

Hanes Gyrfa

Darlithydd, Uwch Ddarlithydd, Athro Cyswllt , Prifysgol Abertawe