Dr Christopher Stokes
Senior Lecturer
English and Creative Writing
Dr Christopher Stokes is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature, and is a specialist in Romantic poetry. His most recent monograph is Romantic Prayer: Reinventing the Poetics of Devotion 1773-1830 (Oxford University Press, 2021), and he is currently completing research across two projects: one on the "occasional poem" in the Romantic era, and one on British Romanticism and Portugal.
His research interests more generally include women's writing, the intersections of poetry, religion and theology, and subjectivity and embodiment in literature. He has published widely in leading international journals, and is the editor of the Selected Poems of Bernard Barton (Anthem Press, 2020), as well as the author of Coleridge, Language and the Sublime: From Transcendence to Finitude (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
He read his undergraduate degree in English Language and Literature at St. Peter's College, Oxford, and then took an interdisciplinary MA, in European Thought, at the Centre for European Studies, UCL. His D.Phil was carried out under the supervision of Professor Nicholas Royle at the University of Sussex, and completed in 2008. With the exception of two years in Ireland, he has worked since 2008 at the University of Exeter across both Penryn and Streatham campuses.
