Geoff Ward (academic)

Geoffrey 'Geoff' Ward, FRSA is a British academic specialising in American literature.^[1] He is the current Principal of Homerton College, University of Cambridge.

He formerly worked as Lecturer then Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool. Following a year spent lecturing in Japan, he took up a Chair and the Headship of Department at the University of Dundee in 1995.^[2] His first book Statutes of Liberty: The New York School of Poets (1993: new edition, 2001) was succeeded by other books and articles including The Writing of America: Literature and Cultural Identity from the Puritans to the Present (Polity, 2002), which he researched during a year spent in the USA as a Fellow of the Leverhulme Foundation.^[3] In 2002, he was made a Deputy Principal at Dundee, leaving four years later to serve as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and then Vice Principal at Royal Holloway, University of London, before coming to Homerton as Principal in 2013.^[4][5]

In addition to his scholarly work, he has written and presented occasional broadcasts for BBC Radio 3, most recently on David Foster Wallace.^[6] A Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, he has also been elected to an Honorary Fellowship at Harris Manchester College, Oxford.^[7]

References

1. "Professor Geoff Ward". Royal Holloway, University of London. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
2. Profile of Geoff Ward, Homerton College, University of Cambridge. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
3. Profile of Geoff Ward, Homerton College, University of Cambridge. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
4. "Clare Alumnus to become Principal of Homerton". Clare College, Cambridge. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
5. "New Principal for Homerton College". University of Cambridge. 24 January 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
6. Profile of Geoff Ward, Homerton College, University of Cambridge. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
7. Profile of Geoff Ward, Homerton College, University of Cambridge. Retrieved 12 August 2014.