Professor Simon Kövesi

  • Professor of English and Scottish Literature, Head of School, Critical Studies (English Literature)

email: Simon.Kovesi@glasgow.ac.uk

5, University Gardens, Room 304, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom, G12 8QH

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739

Biography

I'm from SE London. My undergraduate degree in English Language and Literature was here at Glasgow. My third year was spent on exchange at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After Glasgow, I did a PhD on the Romantic-period poet John Clare with Professor John Goodridge at Nottingham Trent University. I came back to Glasgow at the end of that, and taught in English Literature here for a while. Then I worked for a couple of years as a Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Dundee. I then returned to Glasgow as a graduate teaching assistant, until starting as a Lecturer in Romantic Literature at Oxford Brookes University in 2001. 

I was at Oxford Brookes for 21 years, and ended up as a Professor and Head of School there. I came back to the University of Glasgow in July 2022.

 

 

 

Research interests

John Clare remains a focus of my work. I've edited his poetry, written essays and books on him, and am editor of the John Clare Society Journal. I've been in a fight with a straw bear in a feature film about Clare, helped direct and produce a CD of music and readings of Clare, have run conferences on his world and work, and have done radio shows about him too.

More broadly, I am interested in working-class writing and culture beyond the Romantic period. I was part of the editing team of three volumes of Eighteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets, published in 2003. My 2007 study of the Glaswegian writer James Kelman (Manchester University Press) was short-listed for a Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year Award. I ran a conference on Clare and James Hogg and 2001, and have ongoing teaching and research interests in Scottish representations of working-class life. Mostly through working on Clare, I developed an interest in natural history, and in literary and critical responses to ecology and environmental politics, a core concern of my 2017 study of Clare. I am also interested in creative rewritings of (in any medium and genre), and responses to, the Romantic period. I led an Arts Council England-funded collaborative project called 'The Meeting', in which I worked on Clare with poets, a composer, a producer, poetry workshop participants, a playwright, an actor, and musicians. 

Right now for Oxford World's Classics I am editing - in cahoots with my colleague Matt Sangster, John Gardner (Anglia Ruskin) and David Stewart (Northumbria) - the first modern edition of Pierce Egan's smash hit Life in London (1821). I am also writing separate essays on the peasant in the Romantic period, and on the contemporary working-class memoir. A longer-term plan is to write a study of literature and poverty from 1800 to 2000. 

Research groups

  • Romanticism/18th Century

Publications

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2025

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (Ed.) (2025) English and Boys: why are young men turning away from our subject? English Association Newsletter. (238) [Edited Journal]

2024

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2024) John Clare out of Copyright. [Website]

2023

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2023) Poets THEN and NOW: The 1910-1911 Encyclopædia Britannica Romantic Poetry Project: CLARE, John (1793-1864). [Website]

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2023) Iain Sinclair's Edge of the Orison. In: Evans, Gareth (ed.) Solution Opportunities: For Iain Sinclair at 80. Haggerston Hound Printworks: London.

2022

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739, Corbett, Sarah, Gallas, John, McCarthy Woolf, Karen and Shaw, Clare (Eds.) (2022) The Meeting: Reading and Writing through John Clare. John Clare Society. ISBN 9781916135529

Jones, Toby, Philips, Julian, Romano, Kate and Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2022) Melodys of Earth and Sky. [Audio]

2021

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 and Hamberger, Robert (2021) A Length of Road: Interview with Robert Hamberger. John Clare Society Journal(40), pp. 87-96.

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2021) “Lord Byron, poh! the man wot writes the werses?”: John Clare, Byron and Class. In: Bucknell, Clare and Ward, Matthew (eds.) Byron Among the English Poets: Literary Tradition and Poetic Legacy. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 219-232. ISBN 9781108903790 (doi: 10.1017/9781108903790)

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739, Philips, Julian, Jones, Toby, Romano, Kate and Searle, William (2021) John Clare: The Meeting. Poetry and Song. [Performance]

2020

Kӧvesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 and Lafford, Erin (Eds.) (2020) Palgrave Advances in John Clare Studies. Series: Palgrave advances. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham. ISBN 9783030433734

2019

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2019) Clare, Kelman, and Working-Class Art - an interview with Brian Hammond. The Common Breath,

2018

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2018) ‘Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod? / Or Love in a golden bowl?’ On not defending the humanities. In: Eaglestone, Robert and Marshall, Gail (eds.) English: Shared Futures. D. S. Brewer: Cambridge, pp. 202-209. ISBN 9781843845164 (doi: 10.1017/9781787443297.023)

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2018) Five Questions: Simon Kövesi on John Clare: Nature, Criticism and History (interview with Matthew Sangster). [Website]

2017

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2017) John Clare: Nature, Criticism and History. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9780230277878 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-349-59183-1)

2015

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2015) John Clare: Prize-Fighter. In: Kötting, Andrew (ed.) By Our Selves. Badbloodsibyl, pp. 98-109. ISBN 9780956873361

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2015) The rural plural: Andrew Kötting, Iain Sinclair and John Clare. In: Kötting, Andrew (ed.) By Our Selves. Badbloodsibyl, pp. 184-187. ISBN 9780956873361

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2015) Patrick Spedding and Paul Watt, General eds.; Ed Cray, David Gregory and Derek B. Scott, Volume eds., Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period. British Association for Romantic Studies Review, 46, [Book Review]

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 and McEathron, Scott (Eds.) (2015) New Essays on John Clare: Poetry, Culture and Community. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781107031111

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2015) John Clare’s deaths: poverty, education and poetry. In: Kövesi, Simon and McEathron, Scott (eds.) New Essays on John Clare: Poetry, Culture and Community. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 144-166. ISBN 9781107031111 (doi: 10.1017/CBO9781139381246.008)

Kötting, Andrew, Jones, Freddie, Jones, Toby, Sinclair, Iain, Kötting, Eden, Moore, Alan, Finer, Jem, Macgillivray, Macgillivray, Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 and Aylward, David (2015) By Our Selves. [Artefact]

2013

Eaglestone, Robert and Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2013) English: why the discipline may not be 'too big to fail'. Times Higher Education, pp. 36-41.

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2013) John Clare’s horizons. Essays in Criticism, LXIII(4), pp. 375-392. (doi: 10.1093/escrit/cgt017)

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 and Morley, David (2013) Interview with David Morley: The Gypsy and the Poet. John Clare Society Journal(32), pp. 49-71.

2012

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2012) John Clare & ... & ... & ... Deleuze and Guattari’s Rhizome. In: Klaus, H. Gustav, Rignall, John and Cunningham, Valentine (eds.) Ecology and the Literature of the British Left: The Red and the Green. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey, pp. 75-88. ISBN 9781409418221 (doi: 10.4324/9781315578675-6)

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2012) Mo said she was quirky, By James Kelman. The Independent, [Book Review]

2011

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2011) Finding poems, making text: John Clare and the greening of textual criticism. Romanticism, 17(2), pp. 135-147. (doi: 10.3366/rom.2011.0019)

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2011) John Hamilton Reynolds, John Clare and The London Magazine. Wordsworth Circle, 42(3), pp. 226-235. (doi: 10.1086/TWC24043153)

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2011) Canonicity. In: Chaplin, Sue and Faflak, Joel (eds.) The Romanticism Handbook. Series: Literature and culture handbooks. Continuum: London ; New York, N.Y., pp. 141-157. ISBN 9781441164025

2010

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2010) The Ballad of John Clare, By Hugh Lupton. The Independent, [Book Review]

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2010) If It Is Your Life, By James Kelman. The Independent, [Book Review]

2009

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2009) The Quickening Maze, by Adam Foulds. The Independent, [Book Review]

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2009) James Kelman, the public and pubic wigs: United Statesians in Uhmerkin America. Drouth(30), pp. 9-14.

2008

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2008) An uncatalogued review of Poems Descriptive Dublin Inquisitor, January 1821. John Clare Society Journal(27), pp. 73-80.

2007

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2007) James Kelman. Series: Contemporary British novelists. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719070969 (doi: 10.7765/9781847791757)

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2007) Beyond the language wars: towards a green edition of John Clare. John Clare Society Journal(26), pp. 61-75.

2006

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2006) John Clare, Charles Lamb and The London Magazine: 'Sylvanus et Urban'. Charles Lamb Bulletin(NS 135), pp. 82-93.

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2006) “If I knew that any other use was made of my desires I should be mad”: competing narratives of the politics of John Clare’s language. Drouth(19), pp. 35-41.

2005

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2005) James Kelman margarined: class, language and the avoidance of butter. Drouth(18), pp. 14-23.

2004

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2004) John Clare’s “I” and “eye”: egotism and ecologism. In: Gilroy, Amanda (ed.) Green and Pleasant Land: English Culture and the Romantic Countryside. Series: Groningen studies in cultural change (8). Peeters: Leuven, pp. 73-88. ISBN 9789042914384

2003

Goodridge, John, Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739, Fairer, David, Burke, Tim, Christmas, William and Keegan, Bridget (Eds.) (2003) Eighteenth-Century Labouring-Class Poets. Pickering & Chatto: London. ISBN 9781851967582

2001

Clare, John and Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (Eds.) (2001) Flower Poems. M&C Services: Bangkok. ISBN 9789748796093

2000

Goodridge, John and Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (Eds.) (2000) John Clare: New Approaches. John Clare Society: Helpston. ISBN 9780952254164

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2000) Masculinity, misogyny and the marketplace: Clare’s “Don Juan A Poem”. In: Goodridge, John and Kövesi, Simon (eds.) John Clare: New Approaches. John Clare Society: Helpston, pp. 187-201. ISBN 9780952254164

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2000) The John Clare Copyright: 1820-2000. Wordsworth Circle, 31(3), pp. 112-119. (doi: 10.1086/TWC24044115)

1999

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (1999) ‘Her curious house is hidden’: secrecy and femininity in John Clare’s Nest poems. John Clare Society Journal(18), pp. 51-63.

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (Ed.) (1999) John Clare: Love Poems. M&C Services Company Limited: Bangkok. ISBN 9789747279009

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Articles

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 and Hamberger, Robert (2021) A Length of Road: Interview with Robert Hamberger. John Clare Society Journal(40), pp. 87-96.

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2019) Clare, Kelman, and Working-Class Art - an interview with Brian Hammond. The Common Breath,

Eaglestone, Robert and Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2013) English: why the discipline may not be 'too big to fail'. Times Higher Education, pp. 36-41.

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2013) John Clare’s horizons. Essays in Criticism, LXIII(4), pp. 375-392. (doi: 10.1093/escrit/cgt017)

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 and Morley, David (2013) Interview with David Morley: The Gypsy and the Poet. John Clare Society Journal(32), pp. 49-71.

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2011) Finding poems, making text: John Clare and the greening of textual criticism. Romanticism, 17(2), pp. 135-147. (doi: 10.3366/rom.2011.0019)

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2011) John Hamilton Reynolds, John Clare and The London Magazine. Wordsworth Circle, 42(3), pp. 226-235. (doi: 10.1086/TWC24043153)

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2009) James Kelman, the public and pubic wigs: United Statesians in Uhmerkin America. Drouth(30), pp. 9-14.

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2008) An uncatalogued review of Poems Descriptive Dublin Inquisitor, January 1821. John Clare Society Journal(27), pp. 73-80.

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2007) Beyond the language wars: towards a green edition of John Clare. John Clare Society Journal(26), pp. 61-75.

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2006) John Clare, Charles Lamb and The London Magazine: 'Sylvanus et Urban'. Charles Lamb Bulletin(NS 135), pp. 82-93.

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2006) “If I knew that any other use was made of my desires I should be mad”: competing narratives of the politics of John Clare’s language. Drouth(19), pp. 35-41.

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2005) James Kelman margarined: class, language and the avoidance of butter. Drouth(18), pp. 14-23.

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2000) The John Clare Copyright: 1820-2000. Wordsworth Circle, 31(3), pp. 112-119. (doi: 10.1086/TWC24044115)

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (1999) ‘Her curious house is hidden’: secrecy and femininity in John Clare’s Nest poems. John Clare Society Journal(18), pp. 51-63.

Books

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2017) John Clare: Nature, Criticism and History. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9780230277878 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-349-59183-1)

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2007) James Kelman. Series: Contemporary British novelists. Manchester University Press: Manchester. ISBN 9780719070969 (doi: 10.7765/9781847791757)

Book Sections

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2023) Iain Sinclair's Edge of the Orison. In: Evans, Gareth (ed.) Solution Opportunities: For Iain Sinclair at 80. Haggerston Hound Printworks: London.

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2021) “Lord Byron, poh! the man wot writes the werses?”: John Clare, Byron and Class. In: Bucknell, Clare and Ward, Matthew (eds.) Byron Among the English Poets: Literary Tradition and Poetic Legacy. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 219-232. ISBN 9781108903790 (doi: 10.1017/9781108903790)

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2018) ‘Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod? / Or Love in a golden bowl?’ On not defending the humanities. In: Eaglestone, Robert and Marshall, Gail (eds.) English: Shared Futures. D. S. Brewer: Cambridge, pp. 202-209. ISBN 9781843845164 (doi: 10.1017/9781787443297.023)

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2015) John Clare: Prize-Fighter. In: Kötting, Andrew (ed.) By Our Selves. Badbloodsibyl, pp. 98-109. ISBN 9780956873361

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2015) The rural plural: Andrew Kötting, Iain Sinclair and John Clare. In: Kötting, Andrew (ed.) By Our Selves. Badbloodsibyl, pp. 184-187. ISBN 9780956873361

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2015) John Clare’s deaths: poverty, education and poetry. In: Kövesi, Simon and McEathron, Scott (eds.) New Essays on John Clare: Poetry, Culture and Community. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 144-166. ISBN 9781107031111 (doi: 10.1017/CBO9781139381246.008)

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2012) John Clare & ... & ... & ... Deleuze and Guattari’s Rhizome. In: Klaus, H. Gustav, Rignall, John and Cunningham, Valentine (eds.) Ecology and the Literature of the British Left: The Red and the Green. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey, pp. 75-88. ISBN 9781409418221 (doi: 10.4324/9781315578675-6)

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2011) Canonicity. In: Chaplin, Sue and Faflak, Joel (eds.) The Romanticism Handbook. Series: Literature and culture handbooks. Continuum: London ; New York, N.Y., pp. 141-157. ISBN 9781441164025

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2004) John Clare’s “I” and “eye”: egotism and ecologism. In: Gilroy, Amanda (ed.) Green and Pleasant Land: English Culture and the Romantic Countryside. Series: Groningen studies in cultural change (8). Peeters: Leuven, pp. 73-88. ISBN 9789042914384

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2000) Masculinity, misogyny and the marketplace: Clare’s “Don Juan A Poem”. In: Goodridge, John and Kövesi, Simon (eds.) John Clare: New Approaches. John Clare Society: Helpston, pp. 187-201. ISBN 9780952254164

Book Reviews

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2015) Patrick Spedding and Paul Watt, General eds.; Ed Cray, David Gregory and Derek B. Scott, Volume eds., Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period. British Association for Romantic Studies Review, 46, [Book Review]

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2012) Mo said she was quirky, By James Kelman. The Independent, [Book Review]

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2010) The Ballad of John Clare, By Hugh Lupton. The Independent, [Book Review]

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2010) If It Is Your Life, By James Kelman. The Independent, [Book Review]

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2009) The Quickening Maze, by Adam Foulds. The Independent, [Book Review]

Edited Books

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739, Corbett, Sarah, Gallas, John, McCarthy Woolf, Karen and Shaw, Clare (Eds.) (2022) The Meeting: Reading and Writing through John Clare. John Clare Society. ISBN 9781916135529

Kӧvesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 and Lafford, Erin (Eds.) (2020) Palgrave Advances in John Clare Studies. Series: Palgrave advances. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham. ISBN 9783030433734

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 and McEathron, Scott (Eds.) (2015) New Essays on John Clare: Poetry, Culture and Community. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781107031111

Goodridge, John, Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739, Fairer, David, Burke, Tim, Christmas, William and Keegan, Bridget (Eds.) (2003) Eighteenth-Century Labouring-Class Poets. Pickering & Chatto: London. ISBN 9781851967582

Clare, John and Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (Eds.) (2001) Flower Poems. M&C Services: Bangkok. ISBN 9789748796093

Goodridge, John and Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (Eds.) (2000) John Clare: New Approaches. John Clare Society: Helpston. ISBN 9780952254164

Kövesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (Ed.) (1999) John Clare: Love Poems. M&C Services Company Limited: Bangkok. ISBN 9789747279009

Edited Journals

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (Ed.) (2025) English and Boys: why are young men turning away from our subject? English Association Newsletter. (238) [Edited Journal]

Artefact

Kötting, Andrew, Jones, Freddie, Jones, Toby, Sinclair, Iain, Kötting, Eden, Moore, Alan, Finer, Jem, Macgillivray, Macgillivray, Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 and Aylward, David (2015) By Our Selves. [Artefact]

Performance

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739, Philips, Julian, Jones, Toby, Romano, Kate and Searle, William (2021) John Clare: The Meeting. Poetry and Song. [Performance]

Audio

Jones, Toby, Philips, Julian, Romano, Kate and Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2022) Melodys of Earth and Sky. [Audio]

Website

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2024) John Clare out of Copyright. [Website]

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2023) Poets THEN and NOW: The 1910-1911 Encyclopædia Britannica Romantic Poetry Project: CLARE, John (1793-1864). [Website]

Kovesi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-2739 (2018) Five Questions: Simon Kövesi on John Clare: Nature, Criticism and History (interview with Matthew Sangster). [Website]

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Supervision

Along with PhD supervisions and external examining, I have supervised many BA and MA dissertations across literary cultures of the 19th and 20thc - on topics such as the natural world, class, masculinity, the gothic, sexuality, genre and violence. I am keen to suprvise doctoral research on any aspect of British working-class literary culture from 1800 to now, on Romanticism, and on the environmental humanities. 

 

PhD

‘Glasgow’s Red Clydeside and the Politics of Poetry’, Megan Burns, 2020–23.

‘The Concept of Authorship in the Work of Sara Coleridge’, Robin Schofield, 2013–16.

‘From Whodunnits to Literary Fiction: The Charting of an Author’s Transition from Crime Writer to Literary Novelist’, Morag Joss 2013–14. 

‘Coleridge and Transnatural Poetics’, Gregory Leadbetter, 2006–10. 

Professional activities & recognition

Grant committees & research advisory boards

  • 2018 - 2022: REF2021, Assessor, Subpanel 27
  • 2017 - 2020: AHRC Peer Review College,

Professional & learned societies

  • 2023 - 2024: Chair of BARS First Book Prize Judging Panel, British Association for Romantic Studies
  • 2022: Executive Committee Member, University English
  • 2018: Fellow, English Association
  • 2015: Fellow, Higher Education Academy
  • 2011: Honorary Lifetime Member, British Association for Romantic Studies
  • 2008: Editor, John Clare Society

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