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Robert Hampson is Professor of Modern Literature at Royal Holloway.
EDUCATION
He was educated at King's College, University of London, and the University
of Toronto. He gained an MA from the University of Toronto and his BA
and Ph.D from the University of London.
ACADEMIC
CAREER
He was appointed to a Lectureship at Royal Holloway in 1978; Senior
Lecturer in 1994; Reader in English Literature in 1996; Professor in
2000. He was Acting Head of Department (1994) and Head of Department
(1996-1997) and BA Programme Director. He took over from Professor
Kiernan Ryan as Head of Department in September 2002.
TEACHING
i) Undergraduate Teaching:
His current undergraduate teaching includes first-year lecture course Introducing English Poetry; second-year lecture courses on the nineteenth-century English novel; a second-year lecture-course on Conrad and his contemporaries; a third-year Special Author course on Conrad; and third-year creative writing poetry projectsii) MA Teaching:
His current MA teaching includes a one-semester course on 'Conrad, Race, and Empire' for the MA in Modernism and Modern Writing and a one-semester course on 'Postmodernism and Poetry' for the MA in Postmodernism, Literature and Contemporary Culture. He is also currently developing an MA in Poetic Practice
Monographs: Conrad's Secrets (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).
Editions: Edited, with introduction and notes by Robert Hampson, foreword by Giles Foden, Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Penguin, 2007).
Edited volumes of
essays:
1. (Ed. with Tony Davenport), Ford Madox Ford: A Re-assessment
(Rodopi, 2002).
2. (Ed. With Max Saunders), Ford Madox Ford and Modernity (Rodopi, 2003).
3. (Ed. with cris cheek), Allen Fisher (Salt, 2007).
Special issue of journal: (Ed. with Steven Donovan and Linda Dryden), Conrad and Serialization. (Double-issue of Conradiana, 2008.
Chapters in Books:
1. '"An Outpost of Progress": The Case of Henry Price' in Attie de Lange and Gail Fincham (eds.), Conrad at the Millenium: Modernism, Postmodernism, Postcolonialism (Boulder, Colorado: Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives: 2001).
2. 'Travellers, dreamers and visitors: Ford and fantasy' in Tony Davenport and Robert Hampson (eds.), Ford Madox Ford: A Re-Assessment (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002).
3. 'Ford Madox Ford: Publishing and Publicity' in Vita Fortunata and Elena Lamberti (eds.), Ford Madox Ford and the Republic of Letters (Bologna: Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice Bologna, 2002), 107-117.
4.'Gossip in Conrad, James, and Ford' in Keith Carabine and Max Saunders (eds), Modern Relations: Conrad, James, Ford and Others (Boulder, Colorado: Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives, 2003), 69-92.
5. 'From Cornhill to Cairo: Thackeray as Travel Writer', Year Book of English Studies, 34 (2004), 'Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing' (Modern Humanities Research Association), 214-229.
6. 'Hans van Marle' in Mario Curreli (ed.), Hans van Marle and Ian Watt, Conradians: A Tribute from Friends (Joseph Conrad Society, 2003), 38-40.
7. 'Trade Secrets: The Background to Heart of Darkness', Joseph Conrad and His Work (Ankara: Metu, 2004), 8-18.
8. 'Silence and Secrets in Joseph Conrad's Victory', Joseph Conrad and His Work (Ankara: Metu, 2004), 69-82.
9. 'Conrad's Heterotopic Fiction: Composite Maps, Superimposed Sites and Impossible Spaces, ' in Carola Caplan, Peter Mallios, Andrea White (eds), Joseph Conrad in the Twenty-first Century (Routledge, 2004), 121-135.
10. 'Spatial Stories: Joseph Conrad and James Joyce' in Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker (eds), Geographies of Modernism: Literatures, cultures, spaces (Routledge, 2005), 54-64.
11. 'Henry Ling Roth: The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo' in Russell McDougall (ed). (forthcoming)
12. 'Sir Hugh Clifford in Malaya' in Peter Hulme and Russell McDougall (eds), In the Margins of Anthropology (I B Tauris, 2006).
13. Preface to Peter Barry, The Battle of Earl's Court (Cambridge: Salt Publishing, 2006).
14. 'Bill Griffiths and the Old English Lyric' in William Rowe (ed.), Bill Griffiths (Cambridge: Salt Publishing, 2006).
15. 'Rewriting Conrad' in Jenny Bavidge and Robert Bond (eds), Iain Sinclair (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007forthcoming).
16. 'Treasure Island and Victory: Maps, Class and Sexuality' in Linda Dryden (ed.), Robert Louis Stevenson (forthcoming).
17. 'From Stage to Screen: 'The Return', Victory, The Secret Agent and Chance' in Katherine Baxter and Richard Hand (eds), Conrad and the Performing Arts (Rodopi, 2008).
Articles in refereed journals:
1. 'Silence and Secrets in Joseph Conrad's Victory', Feng Chia Journal 3 (November 2001), 225-246.
2. '"Because of the Dollars" and the already written,' Conradiana 34.1/2 (2002), 95-106.
3. 'Memory False Memory: Days of '49 by Alan Halsey and Gavin Selerie', Remembering the 1990s, New Formations 50 (Autumn 2003), 48-56.
4. '"A Passion for Maps": Conrad, Africa, Australia and South-East Asia', The Conradian, 28.1 (Spring 2003), 34-57.
5. 'Spatial Stories: Joseph Conrad and Iain Sinclair', The Conradian (2006), 52-71.
6. 'Conrad and the Illustrated London News', Conradiana (2007). Special double-issue on Conrad and magazine culture, guest-edited by Stephen Donovan, Robert Hampson, Linda Dryden.
INTERVIEWS
http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Hampson%20interview.htm
In the last nineteen years, he has examined regularly at postgraduate level on nearly 20 MAs and over 50 research degrees.
(a) Since 1980, he has successfully supervised eighteen Ph.D theses:- Sandra Penney on first-person narration in Conrad and later novelists (1980-84). Funded by a Northcliff Scholarship. Dr Penney subsequently took up a teaching post at the University of Newfoundland.
- David Miller on W. H. Hudson (1981-86). The thesis was subsequently published as W. H. Hudson and the Elusive Paradise (Macmillan, 1990). Dr Miller is currently a researcher on an AHRB-funded project at Nottingham Trent University.
- Susan Tyley on 'Joseph Conrad: Language and Narrative' (1983-89). Dr Tyley is now an information solutions consultant.
- Nik Panagopoulos on Conrad and Schopenhauer (1988-93). The thesis was published as The Fiction of Joseph Conrad: The Influence of Schopenhauer and Nietszche(Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag, 1998). Dr Panagopoulos subsequently taught at a private university in Greece.
- Daniel Lea on J.G. Farrell (1992-96). Dr Lea became a lecturer at John Moore's University, Liverpool.
- Anna-Marie Allen on Henry James (1992-97). Dr Allen is now a financial consultant.
- Siv Janssen on the representation of mothering in Victorian fiction (part-time 1984-98). Dr Janssen subsequently became a lecturer at Greenwich University.
- Teng Hong-Shu on 'Conrad and Conspiracy' (1995-99). Dr Teng is currently an associate professor at Feng Chia University, Taiwan.
- Patricia Scanlan on English surrealism (part-time 1989-99)
- Heloise Coffey on the Victorian traveller, Lady Florence Dixie. 'An Examination of the relationship between female emancipation and imperialism in the writings of Lady Florence Dixie'. Funded by the British Academy (part-time 1995-2001)
- Susan Barras on games and gaming in late-nineteenth- century colonial fiction. Funded by the British Academy (1998-2001).
- Hilda Bronstein on Mina Loy. Funded by the British Academy. (2003)
- Redell Olsen on contemporary poetry. Funded by the British Academy. (2003)
- Olivia Jennings on Janet Frame. (2003)
- Pao-I Hwang on contemporary fiction. (2003)
- Yael Levin on Conrad and James. (2003)
- Tiffany MacEnroe on Mangan, Yeats and Joyce (2006)
- Ginny Colby on Kathy Acker and Bret Easton Ellis.
-
Paul McLoughlin on Brian Jones
- Vali Gholami on Conrad
- Andy Purssell, Conrad and Greene.
- John Wallen, Burton and Orientalism.
- Elizabeth-Jane Bennett, Contemporary Women's Poetry
c) Post-doctoral supervision:
- Dr Deanna Turner from New York University, who had a post-doctoral fellowship funded by the Henry Moore Foundation (1999-2000).
- Dr Steven Donovan
from Gothenberg University, who had a post-doctoral fellowship funded
by STINT (Stiftelsen for internationalisering av hogre utbildning
och forskning - Foundation for the Internationalization of Higher
Education and Research) (2001-2002).
- 1987-88:
D.Phil. University of Sussex ('Racial Interaction in Joseph Conrad's African and Malayan Tales'). - 1988-89:
D.Phil. University of Sussex ('A Darkness Visible: Gissing, Masterman, and the Metaphors of Class'). - 1990-91:
Ph.D University of Reading ('The grotesque and the carnivalesque in Conrad's fiction');
Ph.D Jadavpur University, Calcutta ('The Limits of Fiction: The aesthetic theory and practice of H. G. Wells'). - 1991-92:
Ph.D University of London ('Narrative Crisis and the Construction of Gender in English Writing 1880-1920');
Ph.D University of Southampton ('Poetics and Politics in the Writings of Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson and the "Language" Poets'). - 1992-93:
MA Dissertation (University of Cape Town). - 1994-95:
Ph.D University of Birmingham ('Conrad and Masculinity');
Ph.D University of Port Elizabeth (South Africa) ('Conrad's Search for Psychic and Political Order'). - 1995-96:
Ph.D University of London ('John Ashbery's Place in Post-war American Poetry'). - 1996-97:
M.Phil, University of Sheffield ('The Existentialism of Joseph Conrad Reconsidered');
Ph.D University of London ('T S Eliot, The Criterionand Literary Controversy, 1922-1939');
Ph.D University of Essex ('The Hallucination of the Malay Archipelago: Critical Contexts for Conrad's Asian Fiction'). - 1997-98:
MA Dissertation (University of Cape Town);
Ph.D University of London ('The "Girton Girl" and the "Lady Doctor": Women, Higher Education and Medicine in Popular Victorian Fiction by Women'). - 1998-99:
Ph.D University of Kent ('Early Modernism and the English Short Story, 1890-1920');
D.Phil. University of Sussex ('Telling Tales: Conrad and Narrative Technique');
Ph.D University of London ('Insurrectionary Acts: Representations of social protest and social threat in Poe, Conan Doyle, Stevenson, James and Conrad');
Ph.D University of London ('The Family and the Modernist Novel: the treatment of the family in the works of Conrad, Lawrence, Woolf and Joyce');
D.Phil. University of Oxford ('Joseph Conrad and Jack the Ripper'). - 1999-2000:
MA Dissertation (Cape Town);
Ph.D Jadavpur University, Calcutta ('The Theatre of Protest: George Bernard Shaw's Major Plays as a Critique of Bourgeois Society');
Ph.D University of London ('Rhythm and Intonation in Free Verse Form');
Ph.D University of London ('Colonial space, colonial identity: perception and the South African landscape');
Ph.D University of London ('Influence and "Beyond": A Study of Paul Auster's poetry and prose, 1970-86'). - 2000-2001:
Ph.D University of London ('The Action Poetics of Jack Kerouac');
Ph.D University of Sheffield ('Screen Adaptation: Narrative Time in Novels and Films');
Ph.D University of Southampton ('The Crisis of Representation in Contemporary British Poetry'). - 2001-2002:
M.Phil. University of London ('William Carlos Williams');
Ph.D Edge Hill University College ('Method and Technique in Contemporary British Linguistically Innovative Poetry and Poetics').Ph.D University of London ('The Action Poetics of Jack Kerouac');
Ph.D Keio University, Japan ('Towards the Luminnous Core: Remapping Cultural Territories in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage. - 2002-2003:
Ph.D University of London (Hell's Diversities: The Violent Art of Robert Louis Stevenson');
Ph.D University of Hong Kong (Written Orders: Authority and Crisis in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives');
Ph.D University of Singapore ('Envisioning the "Malay World": a Study of Conrad's Eastern Tales')
Ph.D University of London ("Pilings of Thought Under Spoken": The Poetry of Susan Howe, 1974-1993' - 2003-2004:
Ph.D University of London ('Robert Louis Stevenson's Essays: Aesthetics, Masculinity, and the Literary Marketplace');
Ph.D University of Sussex ('Fragmentary Writing on the Body in the Work of Gertrude Stein, Georges Bataille and Rosmarie Waldrop');
Ph.D University of Birmingham ('"To Make you See": Subjectivism and Negativity in Four Novels by Joseph Conrad');
Ph.D Edge Hill University College (Hybridising Writing: Through Performance and Collaboration'). - 2004-2005:
Ph.D University of London(Minimalism in Twentieth-Century American Writing'). - 2005-2006:
Ph.D. University of London ('Inter Alia: Steve Erickson, Rosmarie Waldrop, Lydia Davis and the Lightening of Meaning');
M.Phil. University of London ('An Annotated Bibliography of the Works of Bill Griffiths, 1969-2001');
Ph.D. University of Sydney ('Ford and Conrad: Impressionism, Professionalism, and Edwardian Society');
Ph.D. University of Essex ('Fallen Angels: The Theme of Wandering in Joseph Conrad's Novels');
D.Phil. University of Oxford ('"An Amazing Bloody Foreigner": Language(s) and Modernism in the Early Fiction of Joseph Conrad').
RESEARCH
His main area of research activity is Joseph Conrad.
Joseph
Conrad
i) Editorial Work
He has been engaged in editorial work on Conrad for many years: he was
textual editor for Cedric Watts's edition of Lord Jim (1986),
and subsequently editor of Victory (1989) and Heart of Darkness
(1995) for Penguin. He edited The Arrow of Gold for Everyman
and Nostromo for Wordsworth Classics. He is an Associate Editor
(now Contributing Editor) for the Cambridge Edition of The Works
of Joseph Conrad (Cambridge University Press), which will be the
standard scholarly edition. He is working on the volume, The Arrow
of Gold, with Professor Paul Guston of Kent State University for
the Cambridge Edition.
ii) Critical
Work
He is also engaged in critical work on Conrad - particularly in the
areas of identity, gender and (post)colonialism. His first book, Joseph
Conrad: Betrayal and Identity (Macmillan, 1992), traced the development
of Conrad's conception of identity through his entire writing career
and offered a revaluation of Conrad's early and late fiction. It was
an early engagement with the 'achievement and decline' paradigm, arguing
the importance of Conrad's early and late fiction. His second book on
Conrad, Writing Malaysia: Cross-cultural Encounters in Conrad's Malay
Fiction (Palgrave, 2000) focussed on cross-cultural encounters,
cultural identity, and cultural dislocation in the wide range of Conrad's
Malay fiction from Almayer's Folly to The Rescue. It also
situated Conrad's writings about Malaysia in relation to earlier English
accounts of the archipelago: the work of Mundy, Keppel, Wallace and
Clifford, which Conrad had read. It also explored something of the region's
long history of cross-cultural encounters.
He co-edited with Andrew Gibson Conrad and Theory (Rodopi, 1998), the essays in which covered a range of theoretical approaches from the Kantian sublime to Lacan, from the philosophy of language to ethics, from Bakhtin and Benjamin to postmodernism.
He is also the author of a number of essays and articles on Conrad. His essay 'Chance: the Affair of the Purloined Brother' (1980) was re-printed in Keith Carabine (ed), Joseph Conrad: Critical Assessments (Helm Information, 1992), and his essay on Heart of Darkness, 'Conrad and the Idea of Empire' (1990) was re- printed in Gail Fincham and Myrtle Hooper (eds), Under Postcolonial Eyes: Joseph Conrad After Empire (University of Cape Town Press/ St Martin's Press, 1996).
In her essay in this volume, Myrtle Hooper describes another essay, 'Heart of Darkness and "The Speech That Cannot Be Silenced"', as 'seminal' for its use of ethnography and post-modern anthropology: 'The concept of "cultural translation" in particular offers a mode of approach to texts that deal with cross-cultural encounter or relationship; a mode of approach that takes into account many of the complexities of relations between cultures, including relations of power'. This essay ('The Speech That Cannot Be Silenced') has been re-printed in Peter Childs, Post-Colonial Theory and English Literature: A Reader (Edinburgh University Press, 1999) and in Stephen Regan (ed.), The Nineteenth-Century Novel: A Critical Reader (Routledge, 2001).
His essay 'Chance and the Secret Life: Conrad, Thackeray, Stevenson' was published in Andrew Michael Roberts (ed.), Conrad and Gender (Rodopi, 1993), and he wrote a chapter on Conrad's late fiction for The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). He contributed Conrad entries to The Oxford Guide to Twentieth-Century Literature in English and The Oxford Reader's Companion to Conrad.
iii) Joseph Conrad
Society (UK)
He has been a Committee Member of the Joseph
Conrad Society for over twenty years and is a former editor
of the Society's journal, The Conradian.
iv) Audio-tapes,
video-tapes and electronic publications
In conversation with Peter Cowie on Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse
Now. Open University audio-tape to accompany course on the Nineteenth-Century
Novel. January 2001.
Conrad's
Contemporaries
In addition, he has a secondary research interest in Conrad's contemporaries
(in particular, Ford, James, Kipling and Wells), in the fiction of empire,
in modernism, and in Joyce.
Ford
Madox Ford
He contributed an essay '"Experiments in modernity": Ford
and Pound' to Andrew Gibson (ed.), Pound in Multiple Perspective(Macmillan,
1993) and an essay 'Travellers, dreamers, and visitors: Ford and fantasy'
to a volume he has co-edited with Tony Davenport, Ford Madox Ford:
A Re-assessment (Rodopi: 2002;an essay 'Ford Madox Ford: Publishing
and Publicity' in Vita Fortunata and Elena Lamberti (eds.), Ford
Madox Ford and the Republic of Letters (Bologna: Cooperativa Libraria
Universitaria Editrice Bologna, 2002); and an essay 'Gossip in Conrad,
James, and Ford' in Keith Carabine and Max Saunders (eds), Modern
Relations: Conrad, James, Ford and Others (Boulder, Colorado: Eastern
and Western Perspectives, 2002). He also co-edited (with Max Saunders)
Ford Madox Ford and Modernity (Rodopi, 2003). He wrote the entry
on Ford for the Oxford University Press Encyclopaedia of British
Literature (2006).He is a Founder Member and current Committee Member
of the Ford
Madox Ford Society.
Rudyard
Kipling and the fiction of empire
He edited Kipling's Something of Myself (Penguin, 1987) and Soldiers
Three / In Black and White (Penguin, 1993). He is currently editing
Kim for Wordsworth and H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines for Penguin.
James
Joyce
He was a Founder Member of the University of London UlyssesReading Group.
He contributed an essay '"Toft's cumbersome whirligig": hallucinations,
theatricality and mnemotechnic in V.A.19 and the First Edition Text
of "Circe"' to Andrew Gibson (ed.) Reading Joyce's "Circe"
(Rodopi, 1994) and an essay '"Allowing for possible error":
Education in "Ithaca"' to the second volume in the series,
Joyce's "Ithaca" (Rodopi, 1996).
Contemporary
Poetry
Finally, he has also had a long-term involvement in contemporary English
/ North American experimental and small-press writing. During the 70s
he co-edited (with Ken Edwards and Peter Barry) a magazine, Alembic,
which, among other things, was instrumental in introducing North American
LANGUAGE poetry to England. More recently, he has edited another poetry
magazine, purge (1990- ). Keith Jebb, 'Magazines Roundup No. 8', Poetry
Review, 86.3 (Autumn 1996), devoted a quarter of his review to purge,
and described Hampson as 'justifiably a very respected editor'. He also
recently co-edited (with Peter Barry) New British poetries: The scope
of the possible (Manchester University Press, 1993), to which he also
contributed an essay, 'Producing the unknown: language and ideology
in contemporary poetry'. As a result of the success of the hardback,
a paperback edition appeared 1995.
Some of his involvement in publishing contemporary experimental writing in the 70s has been written about by Wolfgang Gortschacher in his book, Little Magazine Profiles: The Little Magazines in Great Britain, 1939-93 (University of Salzburg, 1993). In a review of his poetry (Time Out, 1989), Jeff Nuttall wrote; 'Heaney, Enright and MacBeth write locally and privately in received forms. For all their brilliance they shirk the work. Robert Hampson's Unicorns ... and Robert Sheppard's Daylight Robbery ... do not. Their works are spacious, creative and adventurous, neither of them content with the description of trivia or the repetition of established skills'.
In an interview in Angel Exhaust 8 (Autumn 1992), Gilbert Adair discussed Seaportin relation to his own interest in 'multi-referential'poetry: 'that particular way of writing other people were already doing a lot better.... Someone like ... Robert Hampson ... was using a far greater span of reference, a far broader range of knowledge, and formal knowledge'. Hilda Bronstein's review of Seaport in Angel Exhaust 15 (Autumn 1997) described it as 'a dense intertextual web', 'a self-reflexive work, set in a textual field of histories, data, scientific knowledges and literature': 'This multi-dimensional and multi-faceted text is an extraordinary concatenation of significations'. Keith Jebb, in his 'Magazines Roundup No. 8', Poetry Review, 86.3 (Autumn 1996), focussed particularly on Seaport (pushtika press, 1996): 'The clarity of Hampson's writing is remarkable, giving us an unfussy run through some of the seminal facts and events of the city's history ... adding speed of transmission, sharpness of selection and skilful juxtapositioning'.
Link to Archive of the Now
Link to Wikipedia: British Poetry Revival
CONFERENCE
PAPERS
He has given papers on Conrad at numerous overseas conferences. He gave
one of the Ugo Mursia Memorial Lectures at the University of Pisa (1983).
He has spoken on Conrad at international conferences in Gibralta (1986);
the University of Copenhagen (1988); the University of Nice (1991);
the University of Lublin (1991); Geneva (1992); University of Hong Kong
(1993); Gdansk (1994, 1997); Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
(1994); Kent State University, Ohio (1995); Drexel University, Philadelphia
(1997); University of Cape Town (1998); Texas Tech (2000); University
of British Columbia, Vancouver (August 2002); Keynote Lecture, The Tenth
Metu British Novelists Seminar, Ankara, Turkey 9 Dec 2002); Colloquium
on Lord Jim, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris (Jan 2004); Jagellonian
University, Krakow (June 2004); Ugo Mursia Memorial Lectures, Second
Series, University of Pisa (September 2004); International Conrad Conference,
University of Amsterdam (August 2005); NIAS Colloquium, ' The Future
of Post-Colonial Studies from a Comparative Perspective', Leiden. He
has also given numerous papers on Conrad at British conferences.
He has given papers or workshop presentations at the international Joyce Symposia in Dublin (1982); Monaco (1990); and Zurich (1996); and at the University of Leeds (1995, 1997) and Goldsmith's College, London (2000).
He has given papers on contemporary poetry at international conferences at the University of New Hampshire (1996) and University of Salzburg (1996). He has also given papers on Ed Dorn (Institute of United States Studies, 1981); Rosmarie Waldrop (University of Sheffield, 1994); Bob Perelman (University of Southampton, 1994); cris cheek (Centre for English Studies, 1998); Gavin Selerie (University of Sussex, 2008). He was also one of the contributors to Bob Perelman's 'Talks' series at King's College, London, 1997-98, and (with Frances Presley) took over direction of the series for 1998-99. The series has run continuously since then and currently takes place at Birkbeck College, under the aegis of the Centre for Research in Poetics.
LECTURE
TOURS
In December 1981/ January 1982 he gave a series of papers and lectures
in Calcutta: 'A reading of Nostromo' and 'Mansfield Park and its critics'
at Rabindra Bharati University; 'Conrad, Wells and Modernism' at Jadavpur
University; 'Conrad and some versions of romance'at Presidency College,
Calcutta University; and 'Conrad, Wells and The Arabian Nights' at the
Amal Bhattacharjee Centre for European Studies, Calcutta.
In May 1997 he was invited to take part in a lecture tour of Taiwan, sponsored by the Academia Sinica. He gave papers on 'Conrad and Cultural Translation' at the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Teipei; on 'Joyce, Nationalism and Nation', at the National University, Teipei; on 'Conrad and Malaysia: Colonial Representations' at the National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung; and on 'Conrad: Legend, Myth and Nation' at the National Kaohsiung Normal University.
In December 1998 he returned to Taiwan and lectured on 'Conrad's Writing of Africa' at Tamkang University and on 'Speech and Writing in Lord Jim' at the National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung. He also gave a paper, 'The View from the Deck: Joseph Conrad's Early Malay Fiction', at the International Conference on Literature and the Ocean, at the National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung.
In August 1999 he returned again to Taiwan and gave a paper on 'Speech and Legend in Lord Jim' to the Research Seminar, National Taiwan University, Taipei; a paper on 'War of the Worlds: H. G. Wells and Independence Day' to the Research Seminar, Academia Sinica, Taipei; and a paper, 'Writing, Body, Text: The Poetry of Ulli Freer, cris cheek, and Caroline Bergvall', at the International Conference 'Reading the Fin de Siecle, Writing the Millenium: Comparative Literature at the Crossroads', Tamkang University, Tamshui.
He has given papers
to research seminars at King's College, London; University College,
London; the Institute of English Studies, London; the University of
Birmingham; the University of Dundee; the University of Hull; the University
of Oxford; the University of Sussex; the University of Bologna; the
University of Milan; and the University of Hong Kong; as well as to
the 1890s Society; the H.G Wells Society; the Historical Association
and the London Group of Historical Geographers. He has lectured at the
National Maritime Museum and the British Library.
EDITORSHIPS
He is on the editorial board of Conradiana. He is a contributing editor
to Pores, the e-journal from the Centre
for Research in Poetics. Advisory Editor, Writers Forum
(2002- ); Advisory Board, Ford Madox Ford Series from Rodopi (2002-
); Steering Committee, British Electronic Poetry Centre (2002- ); International
Advisory Board, New International Writing in English (2003- ).
REVIEWS
OF BOOKS
Joseph Conrad: Betrayal
and Identity, Macmillan, 1992, (pp.1-326.)
Reviewed by Dale Kramer in Choice (Feb 1993): 'Heavily cross-referenced to previous critics, Hampson's readings are coherent and non-jargonistic, well detailed and persuasive ... A study beneficial for all levels of readers including professional critics'.
Reviewed by David Grylls, The Nomad and other Conrads', TLS (6 August 1993), 22: '... Hawthorn is a shrewd and sure-footed guide, even though this book (his second on Conrad) sometimes reads more like a rounding-up of articles than a cumulative argument. A similar lack of argumentative thrust afflicts Robert Hampson's otherwise excellent Joseph Conrad: Betrayal and Identity. Pursuing the theme of betrayal and self- betrayal, Hampson charts Conrad's conception of identity across an impressive range of his work, especially the early and late fiction. As befits the editor of The Conradian, he exhibits an encyclopaedic knowledge not only of Conrad but of Conrad criticism ...'
Reviewed by Allan Hunter, Notes & Queries (December 1993), 564: 'Hampson's engaging study has cleared a path through the dead wood of accepted thinking about Conrad. It is an important development in Conrad studies, and one ignores it at one's peril'.
Reviewed by Mark Conroy in The Conradian (Spring 1996), 93-98: '... the achievement of this book cannot be faulted. Hampson has taken a theoretical rubric, borrowed from Laing and to a lesser degree from Jean- Paul Sartre, and has applied it rigorously to the entire sweep of Joseph Conrad's major works ... But what such a summary as this cannot convey is the suppleness of the readings themselves, and the rich background of familiarity with the conversation of Conrad critique, so seamlessly does the argument play into that very conversation'.
(Ed. with Peter Barry) The New British Poetries, 1970-1990: The Scope of the Possible, Manchester University Press, 1993 (pp.1-247); paperback edition, 1995.
Reviewed by Simon Perril Swansea Review 13, pp.92-97 ('a welcome introduction to a neglected area ... wide- ranging and informative').
Reviewed by Tim Woods in Textual Practice.
Reviewed by Charles Bernstein, 'Leaking Truth: British Poetry in the 90s' in Sulfur 35 (Fall 1994), 211 ('one of the few substantial collections of essays on the topic').
Reviewed by D. A. Barton in Choice (January 1994) ('this book provides a useful survey of the struggle to enlarge British poetry today').
Reviewed in The Year's Work in English Studies, vol.73/74, 500-501.
(Ed. with Andrew Gibson) Conrad and Theory (Amsterdam / Atlanta, Ga.: Rodopi, 1998), 1-208.
Reviewed by Claude Maissonat in L'Epoque Conradienne (1999), 121-26: '... il apparait clairement que l'ouvrage, respectant un equilibre savant entre les diverse approches, atteint son objectif et bien au- dela puisque, s'il propose un panorama des methodologies critiques les plus en vogue dans les anneees quatre-vingt dix, il fournit en plus de nombreuses pistes de reflection susceptible de faire avancer la recherche et de stimuler l'activite critique des ses lecteurs en leur proposant des modeles de lectures ouvertes, informees et rigoureuses'.
Cross-cultural Encounters in Conrad's Malay Fiction (Palgrave, 2000).
Reviewed by Andrea White in Studies in the Novel (2001): '... this study is well-researched and well- written and makes a valuable contribution to Conrad scholarship and to postcolonial studies as well. It combines Hampson's extensive familiarity with the histories and geographies of Southeast Asia with his knowledge of things Conradian, and makes use of an array of informing sources, many non-European, referred to in the substantial bibliography'.
Reviewed in The Year's Work in English Studies, 81 (2002):
'The outstanding contribution to Conrad scholarship this year … This is a substantial piece of scholarship which throws new light on Conrad's Malay fiction, and … provides a valuable assessment of the textualization of geographical space.'Reviewed in Bigdragen: tot de Taal-, Land- an Volkenkunde (2003):
'Cross-cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad's Malay Fiction is a highly erudite and original literary critique for advanced students of Conrad's oeuvre, cultural studies, and English literature.Reviewed by Anthony Milner in The Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (University of Singapore), 34.3 (2003):
‘Hampson probes the writings of Conrad, suggesting interpretations that many readers may never have pondered. In doing so he helps to identify Conrad’s place both in Malay studies and in the disassembling of European colonialism.’(Ed. with Tony Davenport), Ford Madox Ford: A Re-assessment (Rodopi, 2002).
(Ed. With Max Saunders), Ford Madox Ford and Modernity (Rodopi, 2003).
Degrees of Addiction (London: Share, 1975).
How Nell Scored (London: Poet & Peasant, 1976).
A Necessary Displacement (Orpington: Pushtika, 1978).
A Feast of Friends (Durham: Pig Press, 1982).
A City at War (London: Northern Lights, 1985).
(with David Miller) Nevsky Prospekt (Dublin: hardPressed poetry, 1988).
A human measure (Dublin: hardPressed poetry, 1989).
Unicorns: 7 Studies in Velocity (London: Pushtika, 1989).
(with Gerlinde Roder-Bolton) Dingo (London: Pushtika Press, 1994).
Seaport (Woking: Pushtika Press, 1995).
(with Gerlinde Roder-Bolton), higher densities: a new hampshire sampler (Woking: Pushtika Press, 1996).
Scene of the Crime (Woking: Pushtika Press, 2001).
C for Security (Woking: Pushtika Press, 2001).
Scene of the Crime (London: Writers Forum/Guildford: Pushtika Press, 2006).
Pentimento (Guildford: Pushtika Press, 2005).
(b) Books:
Assembled fugitives: selected poems, 1973-1998 (Exeter: Stride Press, 2001).
(c) Magazines edited:
Co-editor (with Peter Barry and Ken Edwards), Alembic, 1973-79.
Editor, a purge of / dissidence (1991), wasted years (1992), purge 3 (1993).
(d) Publication in Magazines:
Poetry in numerous magazines and journals since 1973 including A Chide's Alphabet, And, Angel Exhaust, Boxkite (Australia), Casablanca, Eonta, First Offence,Interchange, London Magazine, Masthead (Australia), Object Permanence,Origin (USA), Pages, Perfect Bound, Ramraid Extraordinaire,Reality Studios, T.L.S., Talus, 100 Posters (USA).
Runner-up in the T.L.S / Cheltenham Festival Poetry Competition (1987).
(e) Anthologies
Included in the Arts Council anthology, New Poetry 3 (1977).
Included in Wolfgang Gortschacher, Ludwig Laher (eds), So also ist das: Eine zweisprachige Anthologie britischer Gegenwartslyrik (Innsbruck: Haymon-Verlag, 2002).
Participant in Chris Goode’s ‘Living Anthology’, Museum of Gardening, Lambeth, 2006.
Included in Stephen Willey and Alex Davies (eds), Openned Anthology (2007).
(f) Electronic Publication:
Poetry on BBC Knowledge Online (2001), A Chide's Alphabet(2001), Masthead (Australia) (2001), Jacket (Australia) (2002), FlashPoint (USA) (2004), Argotist Online (2005), Dusie (Switzerland, 2007), Blackbox Manifold 3 (July 2009).
‘What is to be done?’, Forum on Women Writers, Readings (2) (2005).
Interviewed by Lydia Vanu for British Literary Desperadoes at the Turn of the Millenium published on Liternet (Roumania), 2005.
(g) Readings:
Readings in various venues including the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh; the Unity Theatre, London; The Poetry Society, London; Birkbeck College, London; Institute of United States Studies, London; King's College, London; Theatre Workshop, London University Student Union; Royal Holloway College, London; St Paul's Church, Covent Garden; Atticus Books, Liverpool; the Spacex Gallery, Exeter; Miro Gallery, London; Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Vertical Image, London; The Enterprise, London; The Troubadour, London; La Sainte Union College, Southampton; Wakefield College; Town Hall, Salzburg. Also regular readings for Sub-voicive (including the first Eric Mottram Memorial Reading, January 1996).
(h) Exhibitions:
Work in the exhibition 'Kakkerlakken: Mail Art & Illegality', C C de Warande, Turnhout, Belgium, and Rotterdam, Netherlands, January 1997, and in the mail-art project, 'love letters and war time', Expo mail-art, Gent, on tour 2000-2001.
Contributor to the electronic projects 'mayday' (1998) and 'noon quilt' (1998) organised by cris cheek.
Contributor to the Millenium Collection 'Things Not Worth Keeping' (touring exhibition organised by cris cheek and Kirsten Lavers), 2000.
'Crime Scene' at the Poetry Café, London (2003), part of visual project curated by Dell Olsen and Susan Johanknecht.
‘Bugsplat’ at tEXT2004, Phoenix Gallery, Exeter, curated by Deborah Price.
‘Bugsplat’ at Writing Space, Fine Arts Gallery, Washington D.C. (November 2004).
‘map-loading: 51:31N 00:05W’ at the bookartbookshop, London, as final exhibit in series ’51:31N 00:05W’.
(i) Contributor to the electronic projects mayday (1998) and noon quilt (1998) organised by cris cheek.
(j) Contributor to the Millenium Collection Things Not Worth Keeping (touring exhibition organised by cris cheek and Kirsten Lavers), 2000.
(k) Contributor to Azione Parallela, a virtual happening organised by Marco Nereo Rotelli and Caterina Davinio for the Bunker Poetico at the 49th Venice Biennial.
(l) Contributor to various sound archives: the Brunel University Archive of Innovative Writing (2005); the Arizona State University Virginia G. Piper Center Archive (2005); and the poetry archive at the University of Pennsylvania (2006).
Workshops:
November 1999: (With Dell Olsen) 'Experimental poetry workshop', Spread the Word, Battersea Arts Centre, London.
February 2001: (With Dell Olsen) 'Experimental poetry workshop: Building the Site', RHUL.
March 2002: (With Dell Olsen) 'Experimental Poetry Workshop: Building the Site', Goldsmith's College.
Archives:
My work is included in the following archives:
● Eric Mottram Archive (King’s College, London): tapes of poetry readings;
● Virginia G. Piper Writers’ Center, (Arizona State University): recording of reading at the Virginia G. Piper Center, November 2005;
● Brunel University Archive of Innovative Writing: recording of reading; Archive of the Now.● Philly Sounds (Philadelphia): recording of reading at the Writers’ House, Philadelphia, February 2006.
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