Professor Chris Baldick

BA (Hons) English Language & Literature, University of Oxford, 1976; DPhil University of Oxford 1981, Lecturer in English, Lancaster University, 1990-3; appointed Professor of English, Goldsmiths College, 1993

Teaching

Postgraduate and undergraduate courses in Modern Poetry and in Post-Victorian English Literature.

Areas of supervision

I supervise some topics in British poetry and fiction from 1890 to the present, and in the history of modern criticism and its terminologies. Examples of projects I have previously supervised include:

• British writers’ representations of Italy 1900-1930
• Edward Thomas’s prose
• History of Ambit magazine
• Wyndham Lewis and the Body
• Aldous Huxley’s guru figures
• The novels of Graham Swift
• Poetic influences on Philip Larkin
• The modern beach-walk poem

Publications and research outputs

Book

Baldick, Chris. 2012. Literature of the 1920s: Writers Among the Ruins. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748627301

Baldick, Chris. 2004. The Modern Movement (The Oxford English Literary History, Volume 10: 1900-1940). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198183100

Baldick, Chris. 1996. Criticism and Literary Theory 1890 to the Present. Routledge. ISBN 978-0582033832

Edited Book

Desmarais, Jane H. and Baldick, Chris, eds. 2017. Arthur Symons: Selected Early Poems, eds. Jane Desmarais and Chris Baldick. Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association. ISBN 9781781880999

Baldick, Chris and Desmarais, Jane H., eds. 2017. Arthur Symons: Selected Early Poems. Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association. ISBN 9781781880999

Baldick, Chris, ed. 2015. The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford: OUP. ISBN 978-0198715443

Book Section

Baldick, Chris. 2019. Modern Prophetic Poetry and the Decadence of Empires: From Kipling to Auden. In: Jane H. Desmarais and David Weir, eds. Decadence and Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 347-361. ISBN 9781108550826

Baldick, Chris. 2015. The Novel in Theory, 1900–1965. In: Stephen Arata; Madigan Haley; J. Paul Hunter and Jennifer Wicke, eds. A Companion to the English Novel. London: Wiley, pp. 256-270. ISBN 9781405194457

Baldick, Chris. 2014. Modernist Criticism. In: David. E. Chinitz and Gail McDonald, eds. A Companion to Modernist Poetry. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 185-196. ISBN 9780470659816

Research Interests

My research interests are chiefly in British and European writing of the 20th century, especially English poetry and fiction 1900-1950; the history of English literary criticism; literary terminology; and the work of W. H. Auden.