Prof Antony Rowland

Research expertise

I research in the areas of modern and contemporary poetry, and Holocaust and trauma studies.

In 2021, I was awarded an AHRC Leadership Fellowship to complete a monograph on contemporary British poetry for Cambridge University Press, and to expand the European ‘metamodernism’ network, which was funded by the AHRC in 2018-19.

I am also completing a co-authored book on virtual Holocaust memory, which will be published by Oxford University Press in 2022.

Since 2015, I have been a member of the English Association’s HE Committee. In 2018, I agreed to lead a bid to host the English: Shared Futures conference with the University of Manchester and the University of Salford. The bid was successful in competition with nine other submissions. The E:SF conference is the largest of its kind in the UK―the equivalent of the MLA in the US―and attracts over 700 academics.

I was research centre head for the English Department between 2016 and 2021.

Publications

• Featured Works

  A. Rowland (2021). Metamodernism and Contemporary British Poetry. Cambridge University Press.

  A. Rowland (2017). M.

  A. Rowland (2014). Poetry as Testimony Witnessing and Memory in Twentieth-century Poems. Routledge.

  A. Rowland (2005). Holocaust Poetry Awkward Poetics in the Work of Sylvia Plath, Geoffrey Hill, Tony Harrison and Ted Hughes.

• Books (authored/edited/special issues)

  A. Rowland (2023). Caldebroc.

  M. Boswell, A. Rowland (2023). Virtual Holocaust Memory. Oxford University Press, USA.

  M. Boswell, A. Rowland (2023). Virtual Holocaust Memory. Oxford University Press.

  A. Rowland (2021). Metamodernism and Contemporary British Poetry. Cambridge University Press.

  A. Rowland (2017). M.

  A. Rowland, J. Kilby (2014). The Future of Testimony: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witnessing in Law, Politics, and Literature Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witnessing. Routledge.

  A. Rowland (2014). Poetry as Testimony Witnessing and Memory in Twentieth-century Poems. Routledge.

  A. Rowland (2012). I Am a Magenta Stick.

  R. Crownshaw, J. Kilby, A. Rowland (2010). The Future of Memory. Berghahn Books.

  R. Emig, A. Rowland (2010). Performing Masculinity. Palgrave Macmillan.

  A. Rowland (2008). The Land of Green Ginger.

  A. Rowland (2005). Holocaust Poetry Awkward Poetics in the Work of Sylvia Plath, Geoffrey Hill, Tony Harrison and Ted Hughes.

  A. Michelis, A. Rowland (2003). The poetry of Carol Ann Duffy: choosing tough words. Manchester University Press.

  A. Rowland (2001). Tony Harrison and the Holocaust. Liverpool University Press.

  A. Rowland, E. Liggins, E. Uskalis (1998). Signs of Masculinity Men in Literature 1700 to the Present. Rodopi.

• Journal articles

  A. Rowland (2012). Culpability and the lyric in Tadeusz Borowski'sSelected Poems. Textual Practice. 26(2), pp.243-261.

  A. Rowland (2011). The Oasis Poets: Perpetrators, Victims, and Soldier Testimony. Comparative Literature. 63(4), pp.366-382.

  A. Rowland (2010). Voices Magazine: A Cultural History’. North West Labour History.

  A. Rowland (2008). Poetry as testimony: Primo Levi'sCollected Poems. Textual Practice. 22(3), pp.487-505.

  A. Rowland, T. Pióro (2008). Interview with Tadeusz Pióro (re Tadeusz Borowski's Selected Poems). Critical Survey. 20(2),

  A. Rowland (2001). Love and Masculinity in the Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy. English. 50(198), pp.199-218.

  A. Rowland (1998). 'All Is Not Dead' : Philip Larkin, Humanism and Class. Critical Survey. 10(2), pp.1-14.

  A. Rowland (1997). Re-Reading “Impossibility” and “Barbarism”: Adorno and Post-Holocaust Aesthetics’. Critical Survey.

  A. Rowland (1994). Silence and Awkwardness in Nuclear Discourse. English. 43(176), pp.151-160.

  A. Rowland (1994). Love, Elegies and Annihilation. Meridian.

Grants

May 2021 AHRC Leadership Fellowship (£160,789)

February 2020 Arts Council England grant (£12,065)

October 2018 AHRC Research Networks award (£44,998)

October 2012 Manchester Poetry Prize (£10,000)

March 2012 British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (£87,782)

June 2009 AHRC Research Networks award (£26,479)

July 2003 AHRB Research Leave award (£13,153)

May 2000 Eric Gregory award (Society of Authors) (£6,000)