Personal Info

E-mail: Patrick.mcguinness(at)st-annes.ox.ac.uk

Tel: 01865 274836

Web Link: www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk

Academic Background:

I studied English and French at Cambridge, did a MA on Ezra Pound at York, and then a DPhil in Oxford on avant-garde theatre. I was a Junior Research Fellow at the Queen’s College, Oxford, for a year; I taught at Warwick for a short time, then was Fellow and Tutor in French at Jesus College Oxford (1995-98). I arrived in St Anne’s in 1998.

Teaching Interests:

Undergraduate:
I teach most modern French topics. ‘Modern’ in Oxford starting in the early 19th century, I therefore teach from about 1800 to the present day, across genres: poetry, fiction, theatre and thought. I also teach earlier period for Prelims.

Graduate:
My graduate teaching is centred around late 19th-century and early 20th-century literature, but I also supervise work on contemporary poetry and thought. I have supervised doctorates, MPhils and Masters on a range of topics including: 19th-century French poetry, avant-garde theatre, English and French poetic relations, ‘the fragment’, etc.

Research Interests:

My current interest is poetry, of any period, in any genre, and in any language (if I can find good translations). I am at the moment working on two books, one on French poetry and politics from 1871 to 1914, and one on the British/American poet Thom Gunn. I have written on a range of subjects, from French decadence to contemporary American poetry.
With Matthew Reynolds (a St Anne's Tutorial Fellow in English) I co-founded the College's Comparative Literature seminar.
I have also written and presented radio programmes, notably two Radio 3 Sunday Features, ‘The Art of Idleness’ and ‘A Short History of Stupidity’.

Selected Publications:

Academic:
Patrick McGuinness (ed.), Maurice Maeterlinck, Le Trésor des humbles, 2008
Patrick McGuinness (ed.), Lynette Roberts, Collected Poems, 2005
Patrick McGuinness (ed.), J.K. Huysmans, Against Nature, 2003
Patrick McGuinness (transl.), Stéphane Mallarmé, For Anatole’s Tomb, 2003
Patrick McGuinness, Anthologie de la Poésie symboliste et décadente, 2001
Patrick McGuinness, Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre, 2000
Patrick McGuinness, Symbolism, Decadence and the fin de siècle: French and European Perspectives, 2000

Poetry:
Patrick McGuinness, Jilted City, 2010
Patrick McGuinness, 19th Century Blues, 2007
Patrick McGuinness, The Canals of Mars, 2004

Novel:
Patrick McGuinness, The Last Hundred Days, 2011