John Strachan (born April 1961) is a literary critic, historian and poet, Professor of English[1] and Pro Vice-Chancellor at Bath Spa University, England. Strachan is the current Director of GuildHE Research,[2] Co-Chair of the Charles Lamb Society and an Ambassador for the Association of Commonwealth Universities. He is Associate Editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature. Strachan has previously held professorships at Northumbria University and the University of Sunderland. Educated at the University of Southampton (BA) and Wolfson College, Oxford (MPhil, DPhil). Strachan specialises in Romanticism, especially late Georgian comic writing (he is the editor of British Satire 1785-1840 (2003) and Parodies of the Romantic Age (1999), and the relationship between advertising and literature. He has published two volumes of poetry and, with Richard Terry, is author of a successful text book,Poetry, which was published in 2000 (second edition, 2011) by Edinburgh University Press. Strachan has also published numerous articles in the fields of history, sport studies, poetry, and Irish culture. In 2013 he collaborated with numerous artists and poets to create Their Colours and their Forms: Artists' Responses to Wordsworth, which included some of his own poetry. He lives in Bath, Somerset. As an author, he is widely held in libraries worldwide.[3]
Songs of Place and Time: Birdsong and the Dawn Chorus in Natural History and the Arts, Gaia Project, co-editor with Mike Collier and Bennett Hogg, 2020
Wordsworth/Basho: Walking Poets, Art Editions North/ Kakimori Bunko, co-editor with Mike Collier, 2016
Waterloo: The Field of Blood. Poems, Art Editions North, 2015
Their Colours and their Forms: Artists' Responses to Wordsworth, co-editor with Carol McKay, 2013, Wordsworth Trust, 2013
Charles Robert Maturin, Roman Catholicism and Melmoth the Wanderer, Reimagining Ireland (Vol 38), Peter Lang, 2013
Advertising, Literature and Print Culture in Ireland, 1891-1922, co-author with Claire Nally, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
Poetry, co-author with Richard Terry, second edition, Edinburgh University Press, 2011
Ireland at War and Peace, co-editor with Alison O'Malley-Younger, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011
Key Concepts in Romantic Literature, co-author with Jane Moore, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Ireland: Revolution and Evolution, co-editor with Alison O'Malley-Younger, Peter Lang, 2010
The Oxford Companion to English Literature, 7th edition, general editor Dinah Birch, associate editor for Romanticism, Oxford University Press, 2009
Advertising and Satirical Culture in the Romantic Period, Cambridge University Press, 2007
Essays on Modern Irish Literature, co-editor with Alison O'Malley-Younger, Sunderland University Press, 2007
A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on the Poems of John Keats, Routledge, 2003
