Professor Michael Rosen
Poet and children’s author, Michael’s research areas include processes of naming and the poetics of everyday speech.
Staff details
Position
Professor of Children's Literature
School
Subject
Education and Lifelong Learning
Website
Michael Rosen is Professor of Children's Literature.
Since the late 1960s, Michael Rosen has been writing books, articles, plays and various kinds of scripts; performing poetry for audiences of all ages; and broadcasting on literature related subjects on radio and TV. From 2007-2009 he was Children's Laureate. Michael’s academic pathway took him to read English at undergraduate level at Wadham College, Oxford, and later to study for an MA at Reading University. Following his Ph.D, completed in 1997, he has taught Children's Literature on MA courses at various universities.
Click here to catch Michael's thoughts, ideas, and articles on his blog.
Read Michael's keynote speech (PDF) from the 2016 Writers and Teachers Conference at Goldsmiths.
Research Interests
Apart from continuing to publish fiction and poetry, Michael's next projects include:
- a study of Emile Zola in London
- the process and practice of naming
- the prosody and poetics of everyday speech; the alternative, popular and radical branches of poetry
- the social origins of idiolects
