Gavin R. Hopps

Lecturer

Gavin Hopps is a Lecturer in Literature and Theology, with particular interests in Romantic writing and contemporary popular music. He has been a Lecturer in English at the universities of Aachen, Oxford, and Canterbury Christ Church, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge.

Research Interests

Dr Hopps is currently editing a collection of essays entitled Byron's Ghosts, and working on a number of monographs - including one on the act of apostrophe (Romantic Invocations), one on Indie music of the 80s and 90s (Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: Literary Pop) and one on Bryon's Don Juan. He is also co-editing, with Dr Jane Stabler, a new edition of the Complete Poetical Words of Lord Byron, to be published by Longman in 6 volumes (2013-2037).

Education

B.A. University of Liverpool (1992)

M.Phil. University of Glasgow (1993)

PGCE University of Leeds (1995)

PhD University of Liverpool (2002)

Selected Publications

Books

Morrissey: The Pageant of His Bleeding Heart (Continuum, 2009).

Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens, co-edited with Jane Stabler (Ashgate, 2006).

Articles and chapters

'"Eden's Door": The Porous Worls of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan,' in the Byron Journal, 37.2 (2009).

'Byron and Grammatical Freedom,' Liberty and Poetic Licence: New Essays on Byron, eds. Bernard Beatty and Charles E. Robinson (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2006).

'Romantic Invocation: A Form of Impossibility,' New Historicism and Romantic Form, ed. Alan Rawes (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

'"Je sais bien, mais quand même...": Wordsworth's Faithful Scepticism,' Religion and Romanticism from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens (see above).

'Beyond Embarrassment: A Post-Secular Reading of Apostrophe' Romanticism, 11.2 (2005).

'Inhabiting a Place Beyond "To be or not to be": The Playful Devotions of Byron and Coleridge,' The Coleridge Bulletin, New Series 25 (Summer 2005).

Forthcoming

'Morrissey and a Life Beyond Life,' Introduction to Unite and Take Over: Comic Stories Inspired by The Smiths, ed. Shawn Demumbrum (2011).

'A Foreigner at Home: Morrissey and the Art of Embarrassment,' The Worldly Scholar: Towards a Literature of Commitment, ed. Marc Delrez and Bénédicte Ledent (Rodopi, 2011)

'Infinite Hospitality and the Redemption of Kitsch,' Theology, Aesthetics, and Culture: Conversations with the Work of David 
Brown, ed. Robert MacSwain and Taylor Worley (Oxford University Press, 2011)

'Religion and Ethics: The Necessity of Atheism, A Refutation of Deism, On Christianity,' The Oxford Handbook of Shelley Studies, ed. Michael O’Neill and Tony Howe (Oxford University Press, 2011).

'Hoping Against Hope: Morrissey and the Light that never Goes Out,'  Patterns of Promise: Art, Imagination and Christian Hope, ed. Jeremy Begbie, Trevor Hart and Gavin Hopps (Ashgate).

'"Weder im Scherze noch im Ernste": Byron, Hölderlin and the Haunted Landscape of Greece' (Messolonghi Byron Society: Messolonghi Electronic Library)

'Ending in the Middle: The Art of Interruption' Ends and Endings: Zur Struktur von Schlüssen in Literatur und Kultur, eds. Sven Strasen and Peter Wenzel.