Professor
Patrick McGuinness
Professor of French and Comparative Literature
Sir Win and Lady Bischoff Fellow in French
Tutor in Modern Languages
Academic background
Patrick is an academic, critic, novelist, and poet.
Teaching
French language and modern literature;
comparative literature;
modern theatre;
modern British and American poetry.
Research
His main research interests include 19th and 20th century French literature, especially Poetry and Theatre; French and Belgian Symbolism; Belgian Literature in French and Comparative Literature; Anglo-American Modernism and modern poetry in English.
Academic books
Modernism and its Aftermaths: British and American Poetry after Pound, Liverpool University Press, forthcoming 2020
Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siècle France (Oxford University Press 2015; pb 2018)
Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre (Oxford University Press, 2000)
Recent articles
‘Gilles Ortlieb: L’Oetranger’, Revues de Belles Lettres, 2018
‘Joan Murray’, London Review of Books, 20 December 2018
‘Their Mad Gallopade: Nancy Cunard’, London Review of Books, 25 January, 2018
‘Orhan Pamuk et le musée imaginaire’, Cahiers de l’Herne, ed. Sophie Basch, 2017
Fiction
Throw me to the Wolves (Jonathan Cape, Bloomsbury US), 2019
Other People’s Countries (Jonathan Cape), 2014
The Last Hundred Days, (Seren/Bloomsbury US), 2011
Poetry
Déjà-vu: Poesie schelte vecchie et nuove, trans. Girogia Sensi, Latiano, Interno Poesia, 2019
Five Poems, Clutag Press, 2016
Guide bleu, trans. Gilles Ortlieb, éditions Fario, 2015
Jilted City, Carcanet, 2010
19th Century Blues, The Poetry Business, 2006
The Canals of Mars, Carcanet, 2004