Matthew Ward
Education and Experience
Matthew received his BA in English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, and his M.Phil in Eighteenth Century and Romantic Literature from the University of Cambridge. In 2011 he moved to St Andrews to begin his PhD which will focus on humour in the Romantic period, and has the provisional title, ‘From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: The Hermeneutics of Humour in Romantic Poetry’. His research interests include: the long eighteenth century, Romanticism, popular culture, prosody, theories of humour, literary collaboration, and relations between philosophy and literature – especially epistemology, moral philosophy and the Scottish enlightenment.
Publications
Chapter:
‘An Indefatigable Regard: Byron and The Game of Fame’ (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Forthcoming)
Conference Papers:
‘Byron’s Indefatigable Regard’ BARS Early Careers Conference, London (May, 2011)
‘Indefatigable Regard: Byron and The Game of Fame’, University of Cambridge, (April 2011)
