Born in 1967, I was educated at Gosforth High School, the University of Oxford and the University of York before joining the OU in 1998.
My research centres on Renaissance and twentieth- century poetry. The New Poet: Novelty and Tradition in Spenser’s Complaints (Liverpool University Press, 1999) reflects my interest in the poetry of the English Renaissance. I have published articles on Spenser and Du Bellay, the traditions of the complaint mode in the poetry and drama of the sixteenth century, and on the poetry of Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender and W. H. Auden. I am currently writing a book provisionally entitled Louis MacNeice and the poetry of the 1930s for the Writers and their Work series. I’ve also had some of my own poems published in Other Poetry.
While at the OU, I have worked on AA305, The Renaissance in Europe, AA306, Shakespeare; text and performance, and A300, Twentieth-Century Literature; Texts and Debates writing extensively on all courses. Most recently for A300, I have written units on the Poetry of the 1930s and Seamus Heaney; I am joint editor of the first course book, Aestheticism and Modernism: Debating Twentieth-Century Literature 1900-1960.
I was the Course Team Chair of AA305 from 2000 to 2004. Currently I am Director of Level 1 Teaching in the Faculty. This post involves chairing the replacement of A103, AA100 (first presentation in 2008) and having an overview of the Faculty’s Level 1 provision.
See also Open Research Online for further details of Richard Danson Brown’s research publications.
