Professor Antony Rowland
Professor of Modern and Contemporary Poetry
My profile
Research outputs
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.
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Books (authored/edited/special issues)
Rowland, A. (2023) Caldebroc.
Boswell, M., Rowland, A. (2023) Virtual Holocaust Memory. Oxford University Press.
Rowland, A. (2021) Metamodernism and Contemporary British Poetry. Cambridge University Press.
Rowland, A.C., Boswell, M. (2019) Virtual Holocaust Memory.
Rowland, A. (2017) M.
Rowland, A., Kilby, J. (2014) The Future of Testimony: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witnessing in Law, Politics, and Literature Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witnessing. Routledge.
Rowland, A. (2014) Poetry as Testimony Witnessing and Memory in Twentieth-century Poems. Routledge.
Rowland, A. (2012) I Am a Magenta Stick.
Crownshaw, R., Kilby, J., Rowland, A. (2010) The Future of Memory. Berghahn Books.
Emig, R., Rowland, A. (2010) Performing Masculinity. Palgrave Macmillan.
Rowland, A. (2008) The Land of Green Ginger.
Rowland, A. (2005) Holocaust Poetry Awkward Poetics in the Work of Sylvia Plath, Geoffrey Hill, Tony Harrison and Ted Hughes.
Michelis, A., Rowland, A. (2003) The poetry of Carol Ann Duffy: choosing tough words. Manchester University Press.
Rowland, A. (2001) Tony Harrison and the Holocaust. Liverpool University Press.
Rowland, A., Liggins, E., Uskalis, E. (1998) Signs of Masculinity Men in Literature 1700 to the Present. Rodopi.
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Journal articles
Rowland, A. (2016) 'A Dialectic of forgetting: János Pilinszky and Ted Hughes.' Comparative Literature, 68(1) pp. 46-58.
Rowland, A. (2015) 'Reading Holocaust poetry: singularity and Geoffrey Hill's ‘September Song’.' Textual Practice, 30(1) pp. 69-88.
Rowland, A. (2012) 'Culpability and the lyric in Tadeusz Borowski's Selected Poems.' TEXTUAL PRACTICE, 26(2) pp. 243-261.
Rowland, A. (2011) 'The Oasis Poets: Perpetrators, Victims, and Soldier Testimony.' COMPARATIVE LITERATURE, 63(4) pp. 366-382.
Rowland, A. (2010) 'Voices Magazine: A Cultural History’.' North West Labour History,
Rowland, A., Pióro, T. (2008) 'Interview with Tadeusz Pióro (re Tadeusz Borowski's Selected Poems).' Critical Survey, 20(2)
Rowland, A. (2008) 'Poetry as testimony: Primo Levi's 'Collected poems'.' TEXTUAL PRACTICE, 22(3) pp. 487-+.
Rowland, A. (2001) 'Love and masculinity in the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy.' ENGLISH, 50(198) pp. 199-217.
Rowland, A. (1998) ''All Is Not Dead' : Philip Larkin, Humanism and Class.' Critical Survey, 10(2) pp. 1-14.
Rowland, A. (1997) 'Re-Reading “Impossibility” and “Barbarism”: Adorno and Post-Holocaust Aesthetics’.' Critical Survey,
Rowland, A. (1994) 'Love, Elegies and Annihilation.' Meridian,
Rowland, A. (1994) 'Silence and Awkwardness in Nuclear Discourse.' English Studies: a journal of English language and literature,