Dr. Alan Marshall

Biography

Alan Marshall joined King’s College London in 1995 after completing his doctoral thesis at the University of York, and has previously studied at St David’s University College in Wales and the University of Edinburgh. He served as Head of the Department of American Studies from 2004 to 2008, which was later incorporated into the Department of English. His research focuses on American poetry, particularly the broad experimental tradition that encompasses figures like Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and others. He also emphasizes twentieth-century British and Irish poetry, examining poets connected to the American experimental tradition. His teaching covers a wide range, from 19th and 20th-century American literature to modern American and British poetry, with a particular focus on modern American poetry and its phenomenological aspects. His academic contributions include peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on various poetic forms and critical theories, as well as supervision of doctoral research in contemporary American realism and modernist literature.

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