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Stuart John Sillars

Stuart John Sillars

Stilling

Emeritus, Engelsk litteratur

Tilhørighet

E-post
stuart.sillars@uib.no
Besøksadresse
Sydnesplassen 7
5007 Bergen
Postadresse
Postboks 7805
5020 Bergen

Stuart John Sillars

Stilling

Emeritus, Engelsk litteratur

Tilhørighet

Forskning

Stuart Sillars has been Professor of English Literature at Bergen since 1999, having previously been a member of the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge. His research has mainly focussed on the relations between literature and the visual arts, on which he has written and lectured extensively. His earlier publications were on literature and art during the two world wars, and illustration in the novel, but he has also written on the contention between modernism and tradition in the early twentieth century. He now works largely in the area of Shakespeare and the visual arts, in particular the exchange of concept and technique between theatre, illustration and painting, as well as Shakespeare and the idea of character in the early modern theatre. His teaching in Bergen involves all areas, from first year survey courses to doctoral supervision, and he also travels extensively to lecture and teach throughout Europe and the USA. From 2011 to 2013 he was Professor II at the University of Agder.

Professor Sillars is joint general editor of Early Modern Culture Online, associate editor of Cahiers elisabethains, and editorial board member of The Nordic Journal of English Studies; American, British and Canadian Studies (Romania); Oasis (New Delhi); and Countertext (Malta). He is on the editorial board of The Greenwood Shakespeare Encyclopedia, for which he is also illustrations editor.

He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Arts and Sciences; a Visiting Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; and an Honoraray Research Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham

 

 

 

 

 

Undervisning

Teaching ranges across periods and levels, from the 100-level survey course to doctoral supervision.

Courses at 200 level have included work on Shakespeare and Modernism, and at 300 level the early Twentieth-century English novel, Shakespeare and the visual sense, Shakespeare and the Victorians, metaphysical poetry, and the long eighteenth century.

MA theses supervised have included topics from a wide diversity of genres and periods, from Chaucer through seventeenth-century poetry and Shakespeare to recent and contemporary film adaptations.

I am always happy to discuss ideas for Master's theses that discuss aspects of English writing from all periods, with a particular interest in those that combine literature with the visual arts or music.

Doctoral thesis supervision has covered the poetry of Paul Muldoon, the teaching of English poetry in Norwegian schools, African tragedic theatre and the poetry of Ezra Pound, and aspects of Shakespeare's plays in visual form.

 

Publikasjoner
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Vitenskapelig artikkel
Konferanseforedrag
Vitenskapelig bokkapittel
Vitenskapelig monografi
Tidsskriftomtale
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel
Forelesning
Antologi
Vitenskapelig litteraturgjennomgang
Medieintervju
Arbeidsnotat
Utstillingskatalog
Leksikonartikkel
Lærebok

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Books

Shakespeare and the Victorians (Oxford Shakespeare Topics) Oxford University Press, 2013

Shakespeare, Time and the Victorians: A Pictorial Exploration Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011

The Illustrated Shakespeare, 1709-1875 Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Fields of Agony: British Poetry of the First World War Penrith, Cumbria: Humanities Ebooks, 2007

also available as a Kindle

Painting Shakespeare: The Artist as Critic, 1720-1820 Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Structure and Dissolution in English Writing, 1910-1920 London: Macmillan and New York: St Martin's Press, 1999

Visualisation in English Fiction, 1840-1940 London and New York: Routledge, 1995

also available as an e-book

British Romantic Art and the Second World War London: Macmillan and New York: St Martin's Press, 1992

Art and Survival in First World War Britain London: Macmillan and New York: St Martin's Press, 1987

Articles and reviews in Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare Quarterly, Archiv, Interfaces, English Studies and numerous other journals

For a full list of articles and contributions to collections, see FRIDA via the link above

Prosjekter

Professor Sillars is the founder and director of the Bergen Shakespeare and Drama Network, a group of international scholars that meets regularly to exchange research and develop new projects and activities in which research students are fully involved as equal members. For more information, see https://www.uib.no/rg/bsdn

From 2007 to 2012 he was the Norwegian co-ordinator of a five-year research project funded by NUFU, in collaboration with Makerere University, Uganda, on Ugandan oral forms as a repository of traditional wisdom. The project has produced three volumes of essays,a collection of folktales in translation and an archive of text and video material housed in Makerere.

He was also the co-curator, with Dr Erin Blake, of 'The Extra-Illustrated Shakespeare' exhibition, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C., 24 January - 25 May 2010.

Forthcoming publications

 

Shakespeare and the Visual Imagination Cambridge University Press (in production, due 2015)

Multiple contributions to The Greenwood Shakespeare Encyclopedia

Macro entry on Shakespeare and visual art and micro entry on Photography for The Cambridge World Shakespeare Encyclopedia, New York: Cambridge University Press

Articles on the Shakespeare paintings of Man Ray;  the mirror in Elizabethan drama; Shakespeare, rhythm and music.

Current writing

Eden at Half-Time, a study of ideas of England in word and image, 1918-39, for Oxford University Press.

Collection of essays, some new, some reprinted, for Cambridge University Press.

Commissioned articles on illustration in the sixteenth-century English Romance; illustrated editions of Shakespeare, 1910-20.