Dr Alan Dilnot

Background

Since August 1973 I have been a member of the Department of English (now the English section of ECPS School), Monash University, where I am now a Senior Lecturer. Before 1973 I taught at University College, Buckland, the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and at Jesus College, Oxford. I hold degrees from the University of Oxford: B.A. 1964, B. Phil. and M.A. 1966, and D.Phil. 1973. (See C.V. p.1)

At Monash I have taught the following courses: “Introduction to English Literature” (and its successor courses), “Worlds in Conflict”, “The Place of Performance”, “Renaissance Literature”, “Romantic Literature”, “Victorian Literature”, “Seven Authors”, “Contemporary English Literature”, “Modern English Literature”, “Literature of the Spanish Civil War”, “Special Author: Dickens”, and, at Fourth-Year Level, “Nineteenth-Century Fiction” and “Visions and Revisions”.

I have supervised Honours, Masters and Doctoral theses on a wide range of topics, but with a concentration on those arising out of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature in English.

In June 2005 I toured selected Japanese universities, presenting Lectures on and Performances from Dickens and Shakespeare.

Research Interests

My publications (see C.V. pp. 1-7) reflect the breadth of my research interests. Many of them have been on nineteenth- and twentieth-century novelists, but there are also several on Shakespeare and on poetry.

Dickens is a continuing research interest as is the novelist Henry Williamson. My current projects are listed on page 8 of the C.V.

Poetry and Theatre

I have written poems and plays (see C.V. p. 9 for the latter). For my theatrical experience see pp. 9-12 of the C.V.

Selected Publications