Dr Lucinda Towler

Associate Tutor History of Art

Email: lucinda.towler@warwick.ac.uk 

FAB5.69
Faculty of Arts Building
University of Warwick

About

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[Title and full name] is [Academic role], and teaches on the English and Comparative Literary Studies and Philosophy and Literature programmes. Her main interest is in poetry and phenomenology – how poetry explores and articulates human and nonhuman religious and emotional experience. She serves on the editorial boards of Literature and Theology and Literature Compass (Romanticism). With Mark Knight, Emma edits the Bloomsbury monograph series New Directions in Religion and Literature. She is also a member of the Arts Emergency network.

Research interests

My research interests include poetry 1750-present, elegy, poetry and emotion, and religion and ecology. I co-founded the Comparative Religions and Literatures (CoRAL) research group, am a member of the Critical Environments cross-disciplinary research and teaching collective, and a member of the Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts. My current projects include Christina Rossetti: Poet of Grace (Oxford University Press) and a new edition of Jack Clemo's poetry with Alan Kent.

Teaching and supervision

I teach on the BA/MA programmes in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies and the Philosophy and Literature degree in the Department of Philosophy. I also convene the Poetry and Poetics Pathway on the MA in English Literature. My BA options include:

• What Are Poets For?
• Poetry and Emotion
• Blake and Wordsworth

MA options include Poetry and Music and Romantic Elegy . I currently supervise several doctoral students working in the fields of poetry and poetics, and religion and literature.

Administrative roles

• [Admin role] for the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies in the academic year 2013/2014

Selected publications

• Ed., Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Criticism and Debates (Routledge, 2014)
• Ed., Reading the Abrahamic Faiths: Rethinking Religion and Literature (Bloomsbury, 2014)
• Co-ed., On Human Flourishing: An Anthology of Poetry (McFarland, 2014)
• Ed., Elizabeth Jennings: The Collected Poems (Carcanet Press, 2012); Guardian Poetry Paperback of 2012
• The Cambridge Introduction to Wordsworth (Cambridge University Press, 2010) [featured on the CUP blog]
• Co-ed., The Oxford Handbook to the Reception History of the Bible (Oxford University Press, hb 2011; pb 2013)
• Co-ed., The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature (Blackwell, hb 2009; pb 2011)
• Nineteenth Century Religion and Literature (Oxford University Press, 2006)
• Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century (Writers and their Work, 2006)

Professional associations

• Associate Fellow of the English Association

Qualifications

• BA; MA (Cardiff)
• PhD (Warwick)
• BAPDF/JRF (Corpus Christi, Oxford)