Professor Warwick Gould FRSL, FRSA, FEA

Director, Institute of English Studies

Tel: 020 7862 8673
Email: warwick.gould@sas.ac.uk

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Image from Joachim of Fiore and the Myth of the Eternal Evangel in the Nineteenth and Twentieth-Centuries (Clarendon Press, 2001) by Warwick Gould and Marjorie Reeves

Curriculum Vitæ

Warwick Gould has been Director of the Institute of English Studies since its inception, and is also Director of the Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies, for which the Institute is host institution. He has been Professor of English Literature in the University of London since 1995. He holds these posts on full-time secondment from Royal Holloway College.

Principal Publications:

Professor Gould is co-author (with Marjorie Reeves FBA) of Joachim of Fiore and the Myth of the Eternal Evangel in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Clarendon, 2001), recently revised and augmented from earlier editions (Joachim of Fiore and the Myth of the Eternal Evangel in the Nineteenth Century (Clarendon 1987) and Gioacchino da Fiore e il mito dell'Evangelo eterno nella cultura europea (Rome: Viella editrice, 2000)). He is co-editor with Phillip L. Marcus and Michael Sidnell of The Secret Rose, Stories by W. B. Yeats: A Variorum Edition (Cornell, 1981; rev. ed., Macmillan, 1992); with John Kelly and Deirdre Toomey of The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, Volume II, (1896-1900) (Clarendon, 1997); with Warren Chernaik and Ian Willison of Modernist Writers and the Market-place (Macmillan, 1992), and with Thomas F. Staley of Writing the Lives of Writers (Macmillan, 1998). He has edited Yeats Annual (Macmillan, Palgave, since 1983) and has co-editing Mythologies for Palgrave Macmillan, as well as Yeats's Occult Diaries (1898-1901). He is Associate Editor of the New DNB with particular responsibility for Irish Writing (1780-present day).

	Warwick Gould (ed.), Poems and Contexts: Yeats Annual 15: a special number (London: Palgrave, August 2005)
	W. B. Yeats, Mythologies, Warwick Gould and Deirdre Toomey (eds.), London: Palgrave Macmillan, July 2005.
	Wayne K. Chapman and Warwick Gould (eds), Yeats's Collaborations: Yeats Annual 15: a special number (London: Palgrave, September 2002)
	Warwick Gould and Marjorie Reeves (eds.), Joachim of Fiore and the Myth of the Eternal Evangel in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries New Edition (Oxford, 2001)
	Warwick Gould (ed.) Yeats Annual 14: Yeats and the Nineties: A Special Issue (London: Palgrave, 2000), pp. xxiii + 399. (Contains following contributions by W.G.: Yeats Digitally Remastered: The W. B. Yeats Collection: a review essay pp. 334-49; Lionel Johnson's The Ideal of Thomas Davis (1896) pp. 104-58: Clairvoyance: A Lecture by V.H. Soror Deo Date (1900), pp. 265-83 (both edited by W.G.).  This is the latest publication in the Yeats Annual series. Click here for more information on the Yeats Annuals
	Warwick Gould & Thomas F. Staley (eds.), Writing the Lives of Writers (June 1998)
	Ian Willison, Warwick Gould & Warren Chernaik (eds.), Modernist Writers and the Marketplace (Palgrave, 1996)
	Warwick Gould, John Kelly & Deirdre Toomey (eds.), The Collected Letters of W.B.Yeats – Volume II, 1896 – 1900 (Oxford, 1997)

Research Management:

Professor Gould co-directed (with Professor Cedric Brown, Reading) the HRB/Funding Councils Institutional Research Fellowship Project, '"Between Two Worlds": Authors and Publishers 1870-1939' (1999-2003, principal researcher, Dr Andrew Nash), and is Director of the AHRB Postdoctoral Research Project, 'The Irish Book in the Twentieth Century' (2000-4, Principal Researcher, Dr Clare Hutton).

Research Supervision:

Professor Gould is happy to supervise on a wide range of late nineteenth and early twentieth century topics, especially in the literature of the Irish Revival, and in the general field of the History of the Book. He has supervised and examined numerous PhDs on W. B. Yeats, Christopher Brennan, Lady Gregory, Seamus Heaney, John Masefield, Elkin Mathews, V. S. Naipaul, Walter Pater, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, P. B. Shelley, Australian Literature (and Patrick White), Irish Publishing, 1886-1930, Fin de siècle Poetry, Fin de siècle Lives of Jesus, 19th Century Irish Radical Verse, 19th Century Occult Publishing, 19th Century Paper-making, 20th Century Literary Theory, 20th Century Literary Agency.

Responsible Positions:

He is an elected member of the Senate and the Council of the University of London and Chairman of Subject Area Board E (Humanities), 2001-, and a member of the Management Committee, LTSN Subject Centre in English. He was a member of the University of London's Senate and Academic Council (1990-1994), the University Council (1994-2000), Academic Committee (1994-2000), Chairman of the Board of Examiners in English (BA, Federal, 1986). In 1994-5, he was Special Subject Assessor, HEFCE Teaching Assessment Exercise (Universities of Leeds, Oxford, Portsmouth, and Nottingham Trent University). He has been an elected Member of the Bibliographical Society since 1994, and currently serves on its Council, and on the Council of Goldsmiths College.

Past Career and Education:

He was Programme Director of the former Centre for English Studies in the School (1997-8; Deputy Programme Director, 1994-7) on secondment from Royal Holloway, where he was been British Academy Research Reader (1992-4), Reader, (1991-5), Senior Lecturer (1986-1991) and Lecturer (1973-1986). He was educated at the Brisbane Grammar School (1961-1964), the University of Queensland (1965-1969) where he took his B.A. (1st Class Honours, English Language and Literature) and at Royal Holloway College, University of London (1969-1973).