Michael Bradshaw

I joined the University of Winchester in April 2023. Previously, I have been Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Worcester (2017-23), and Head of the Department of English, History & Creative Writing at Edge Hill University (2009-17). I have also worked at Manchester Metropolitan University, Japan Women’s University, the University of Tokyo, Bristol University, and the University of the West of England. I hold degrees from Cambridge and Bristol.

As Faculty Dean, I have overall responsibility for academic planning and development, and support the Heads of Department in HSS. But I will also devote as much time as I can to my own teaching and research interests.

I’m a specialist in British Romanticism, especially poetry and drama of the later Romantics. My published critical work includes authors such as: Thomas Lovell Beddoes, John Clare, George Darley, Thomas Hood, John Keats, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Walter Savage Landor, Mary Shelley, and Percy Shelley. I have also published on aspects of Romantic drama, ‘Romantic generations’, Romantic fragment poems, and the periodical press in the 1820s, as well as the contemporary author Alan Moore. My recent and ongoing work focuses on Critical Disability Studies, applied to Romantic-era and contemporary writing. I would welcome enquiries about postgraduate research in any of these areas.