Alex Runchman, M.A. (Oxon), MPhil (Cantab)
Alex Runchman studied English Language and Literature at Worcester College,
Oxford, gaining a first class degree in 2002. He went on to take an MPhil in
American Literature at the University of Cambridge in 2003-4, and wrote his
thesis on twentieth-century American sonnets.
In 2005 he took a PGCE and was a secondary school English teacher until he
started his Ph.D. at Trinity in 2008. He has also taught English as a
Foreign Language in several countries.
Mr Runchman is currently researching the American writer Delmore Schwartz.
The working title of his Ph.D. thesis is ‘“America? America?” Delmore
Schwartz’s International Consciousness’. The thesis will re-evaluate the
oeuvre of this influential and multi-talented writer, addressing in
particular his engagements with American and European culture, the American
Dream, and the world at large.In 2010, Alex will be teaching on the freshman American Genres and Poetry courses.
Publications to date include a review of Shifting Ground: Reinventing
Landscape in Modern American Poetry by Bonnie Costello in Essays in
Criticism (July 2004) and ‘Berryman, Lowell, and the Twentieth-Century
American Sonnet’ in After Thirty Falls: New Essays on John Berryman ed. by
Philip Coleman and Philip MacGowan (Rodopi, 2007).
More recent publications include:
- ‘Delmore Schwartz’s Genesis and “international consciousness’ in IJASonline, Issue 2 (Summer, 2010)
- ‘“The School in Which We Learn”: Delmore Schwartz and Education’ in POST: A Review of Poetry Studies, Issue II: Poetry and Education (Summer, 2010) (online journal).
- a forthcoming chapter on 'Epic Poetry' will appear in The Oxford Companion to Poetic Genre (Blackwell-Wiley).
Contact: runchmaa@tcd.ie
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