David Punter
David Godfrey Punter (born November 19, 1949 in London ) is a British literary scholar . He holds (e) professorships at universities in England , Scotland and Hong Kong and is one of the leading international Gothic researchers.
Life
Punter studied at Fitzwilliam College at the University of Cambridge (BA 1970, MA 1974). In 1984 he earned a Ph.D.
From 1973 to 1984 he was Lecturer and from 1984 to 1986 Senior Lecturer for English at the University of East Anglia . From 1986 to 1988 he was Professor of English and Head of Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong . From 1988 to 2000 he was Professor of English at the University of Stirling (Scotland) and since then at the University of Bristol , where he is Graduate Dean and Research Director of the Faculty of Arts . He was also responsible for founding the Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts (BIRTHA) and represents his university in the Coimbra Group .
He (te) held numerous other positions such as 1983 he was visiting professor at Fudan University . From 1992 until he was on the Board of Directors of the Edinburgh Book Festival . From 1993 to 1995 he was President of the British Association for Romantic Studies . From 1995 to 2000 he was Vice-Chairman of the Scottish Committee of Professors of English . Punter is Chairman of the Editorial Advisory Board of Gothic Studies (since 1995) and Executive Chairman of the International Gothic Association (since 1995). He is on the editorial boards of the Stirling Edition of James Hogg (1991–1994), Romanticism in Context (since 1995) and La Questione Romantica (since 1997).
He is married for the second time and has three children.
Memberships and honors
- 1998: Fellow, Center for European Romanticism, University of Glasgow
- 1998: Fellow, Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)
- 1999: Fellow, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (FSA Scot)
- 2000: DLitt, University of Stirling
- Fellow, English Association (FEA)
- Fellow, Higher Education Association (FHEA)
Fonts (selection)
- The Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the Present Day (1980)
- (with David Aers and Jonathan Cook): Romanticism and Ideology: Studies in English Writing 1765–1830 (1981)
- Blake, Hegel and Dialectic (1982)
- The Hidden Script: Writing and Unconscious (1985)
- Introduction to Contemporary Cultural Studies (1986)
- William Blake : Selected Poetry and Prose (1988)
- The Romantic Unconscious: A Study in Narcissism and Patriarchy (1989)
- Notes on Selected Poems of Philip Larkin (1991)
- (Ed.): William Blake: The New Casebook (1996)
- (Ed.): Romanticism (Volume 26, Annotated Bibliography of English Studies ) (1997)
- Notes on William Blake's 'Songs of Innocence and Experience' (1998)
- Gothic Pathologies: The Text, the Body and the Law (1998)
- (Ed.): Spectral Readings (1999)
- (Ed.): Companion to the Gothic (1999)
- Writing the Passions (2000)
- Postcolonial Imaginings (2000)
Web links
- Search for David Punter in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- David Punter at the University of Bristol
- Punter, David from Debrett's People of Today
- Literature by and about David Punter in the WorldCat bibliographic database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Punter, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Punter, David Godfrey (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |