Nick Groom
Nick Groom FRSA (born 1966) is Professor of English Literature at the University of Exeter, a critically acclaimed author on subjects ranging from the history of the Union Jack[1][2] to Thomas Chatterton,[3][4] has edited several books and regularly appears on television, radio and at literary festivals as an authority on English Literature and the ‘Gothic’ and ‘British’ identity.[5][6][7][8][9]
Early years
Nicholas Groom was born in 1966 and educated at Bedford Modern School[10] and Hertford College, Oxford where he graduated with first class honours in 1988.[5] He was made DPhil (Oxon) in 2004 with his dissertation, Thomas Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Its Context, Presentation, and Reception.[5][11]
Career
Groom became a lecturer in English at the University of Exeter in 1994, a Senior Lecturer in Post-Medieval Literature at the University of Bristol in 2000 and Reader in English Literature at the University of Bristol in 2003.[5] In April 2000 he was a Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford University following which he was made Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago in October 2001.[5]
In 2007 Groom was made Professor of English Literature at the University of Exeter and was appointed co-director of the Exeter Centre for Literatures of Identity, Place and Sustainability in 2008.[5]
Groom’s research has ‘largely focussed on three areas; cultural formation and authenticity, including attribution studies (work on forgery and, specifically, Chatterton); national identity (Englishness and Britishness, including the Gothic); and historicist popular culture and folklore (seasons and saints’ days)’.[5]
Groom wrote an essay on The Young Ones for The Cassell Book of Great British Comedy and in 2008 he nominated Rik Mayall for an Honorary Degree at the University of Exeter.[12] Following Mayall’s death in 2014, Groom was regularly interviewed to comment on Mayall’s unique contribution to English comedy.
Groom is a critically acclaimed author, has edited several books including a twelve volume edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare (London and Bristol: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1995),[13] has contributed over thirty chapters in edited collections, articles in several academic journals[5] and regularly reviews books for The Financial Times, Times Higher Education and The Independent.[5]
Bibliography
Books
- Groom, Nick (1999). The making of Percy's Reliques. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Thomas Chatterton and romantic culture. Published by London: Macmillan ; New York : St Martin’s Press, 1999[14]
- Introducing Shakespeare (Cambridge: Icon, 2001), with illustrations by Piero. 176pp.[5][6][15]
- The Forger’s Shadow: How Forgery Changed the Course of Literature (London: Picador, 2002; paperback, 2003). 350pp.[5][6]
- The Union Jack: The Story of the British Flag (London: Atlantic, 2006; paperback, 2007). xxii + 398pp[5][6]
- The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). Xviii + 164pp.[5][6][16]
- The Seasons: An Elegy for the Passing of the Year (London: Atlantic, 2013), 400pp.[5][6][17]
Critical studies, reviews and biography
- McDonagh, Melanie (4 January 2014). "Eat, drink and be merry ...". Books. The Spectator. 324 (9671): 20–21. Review of The seasons.
References
- ↑ Mike Phillips. "Review: The Union Jack: The Story of the British Flag by Nick Groom". the Guardian. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
- ↑ "The Union Jack: The story of the British flag, by Nick Groom". The Independent. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
- ↑ "System Cookie Warning". Retrieved 10 January 2015.
- ↑ "Jonathan Lamb reviews 'Thomas Chatterton and Romantic Culture' by Nick Groom · LRB 20 September 2001". London Review of Books. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/includes/documents/staff_cvs/groom.pdf
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Groom, Nick 1966-". Retrieved 10 January 2015.
- ↑ "Literary Encyclopedia - Profile of Nick Groom". Retrieved 10 January 2015.
- ↑ "A Very British Union Flag - The Symbol Of Union Which In Reality Is Anything But - Flagmakers". Flagmakers. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
- ↑ http://www.ucd.ie/scholarcast/transcripts/alright_jack.pdf
- ↑ School of the Black and Red, by Andrew Underwood (1981); reset and updated 2010 (page 286)
- ↑ "Thomas Percy's Reliques of ancient English poetry : its context, presentation, and reception". Retrieved 10 January 2015.
- ↑ "Featured news - Rik Mayall - a tribute - University of Exeter". Retrieved 10 January 2015.
- ↑ "The plays of William Shakespeare / with a new introduction by Nick Groom. - Version details - Trove". Retrieved 10 January 2015.
- ↑ "Thomas Chatterton and romantic culture". Retrieved 10 January 2015.
- ↑ "Introducing Shakespeare". Retrieved 10 January 2015.
- ↑ "Review of The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction". Retrieved 10 January 2015.
- ↑ Sarah Bakewell. "The Seasons: an Elegy for the Passing of the Year by Nick Groom – review". the Guardian. Retrieved 10 January 2015.