John Strachan (professor)

John Strachan (born April 1961) is a literary critic, historian and poet, Professor of English and Pro Vice-Chancellor at Bath Spa University, England. Strachan is the current Director of GuildHE Research, Co-Chair of the Charles Lamb Society and an Ambassador for the Association of Commonwealth Universities. He is Associate Editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature. Strachan has previously held professorships at Northumbria University and the University of Sunderland. Educated at the University of Southampton (BA) and Wolfson College, Oxford (MPhil, DPhil). Strachan specialises in Romanticism, especially late Georgian comic writing (he is the editor of British Satire 1785-1840 (2003) and Parodies of the Romantic Age (1999), and the relationship between advertising and literature. He has published two volumes of poetry and, with Richard Terry, is author of a successful text book,Poetry, which was published in 2000 (second edition, 2011) by Edinburgh University Press. Strachan has also published numerous articles in the fields of history, sport studies, poetry, and Irish culture. In 2013 he collaborated with numerous artists and poets to create Their Colours and their Forms: Artists' Responses to Wordsworth, which included some of his own poetry. He lives in Bath, Somerset. As an author, he is widely held in libraries worldwide.

Selected bibliography

• Songs of Place and Time: Birdsong and the Dawn Chorus in Natural History and the Arts, Gaia Project, co-editor with Mike Collier and Bennett Hogg, 2020
• Wordsworth/Basho: Walking Poets, Art Editions North/ Kakimori Bunko, co-editor with Mike Collier, 2016
• Waterloo: The Field of Blood. Poems, Art Editions North, 2015
• Their Colours and their Forms: Artists' Responses to Wordsworth, co-editor with Carol McKay, 2013, Wordsworth Trust, 2013
• Charles Robert Maturin, Roman Catholicism and Melmoth the Wanderer, Reimagining Ireland (Vol 38), Peter Lang, 2013
• Advertising, Literature and Print Culture in Ireland, 1891-1922, co-author with Claire Nally, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
• Poetry, co-author with Richard Terry, second edition, Edinburgh University Press, 2011
• Ireland at War and Peace, co-editor with Alison O'Malley-Younger, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011
• Key Concepts in Romantic Literature, co-author with Jane Moore, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
• Ireland: Revolution and Evolution, co-editor with Alison O'Malley-Younger, Peter Lang, 2010
• The Oxford Companion to English Literature, 7th edition, general editor Dinah Birch, associate editor for Romanticism, Oxford University Press, 2009
• Advertising and Satirical Culture in the Romantic Period, Cambridge University Press, 2007
• Essays on Modern Irish Literature, co-editor with Alison O'Malley-Younger, Sunderland University Press, 2007
• A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on the Poems of John Keats, Routledge, 2003
• Leigh Hunt: Poetical Works, 2 vols, editor, Pickering and Chatto, 2003
• British Satire 1785-1840, 5 vols, general editor, Pickering and Chatto, 2003
• Parodies of the Romantic Age, 5 vols, co-general editor, Pickering and Chatto, 1999