Stephen Regan

Stephen Regan is Professor of English and Head of the Department of English Studies at Durham University. He was born in Durham and taught at several British and overseas universities before returning home in 2004. He was Lecturer in Modern Poetry at Royal Holloway, University of London, for four years, and also worked at Ruskin College, Oxford and The Open University. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela in 2004, and has been a visiting lecturer at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and at Columbus State University in Georgia, USA. He has worked extensively for the British Council in Poland, former Yugoslavia, Morocco and elsewhere. His main teaching and research interests are modern poetry, modern Irish literature and literary theory. His publications include essays on W. B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney and Robert Frost, two books on Philip Larkin, an edition of George Meredith's Modern Love, and a forthcoming critical study of the sonnet from Shakespeare to Heaney. He is also the editor of Irish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939, from the Oxford World's Classics series.