Contact Us

By telephone
During office hours
(Monday-Friday 08:30-17:00)
+44 (0)1234 400 400

Outside office hours
(Campus Watch)
+44 (0)1582 74 39 89

By email
admission@beds.ac.uk (admissions)
international@beds.ac.uk (international)
sid@beds.ac.uk (student support)
help@beds.ac.uk (registration)

By post
University of Bedfordshire
Park Square
Luton
Bedfordshire
UK, LU1 3JU

Dr Michael Faherty

Principal Lecturer in English Studies

Michael Faherty

I studied for my first degree at my local university, the University of Wisconsin, Platteville. After working as a journalist in the Rocky Mountains and then as an English teacher for the Peace Corps in Togo, West Africa, I continued my studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

While working on my PhD dissertation, I was offered a fellowship at the University of Cologne and, following that, a lectureship there in English Literature. In 1992, I moved to England to teach at the Bedford campus of De Montfort University, which became part of the University of Bedfordshire in August 2006.

Qualifications

  • PhD English Literature – University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • MA English Literature – University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • BA English Literature – University of Wisconsin, Platteville

Teaching Expertise

  • Medieval Literature
  • American Literature
  • Irish Literature
  • African Literature
  • Creative Writing

Research Interests

  • Modern and Contemporary Poetry
  • Travel Writing

External Roles

  • External Examiner for English Literature, University of Buckingham

Recent Publications

  • ‘Hound & Horn (1927-34)’ in The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, Volume 2: North America 1894-1960, edited by Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012): 420-36.
  • ‘The Strange Ones: John Montague, Ezra Pound and the Troubadour Tradition’ in Poetry Criticism, Volume 106, edited by Michelle Lee (Detroit: Gale, 2010): 299-306.
  • ‘Pound’s Lute: The West African Voice of the Gesere in the Pisan Cantos’ in Ezra Pound, Language and Persona, edited by Massimo Bacigalupo and William Pratt (Genoa: University of Genoa Press, 2008): 221-33.
  • ‘Paul Blackburn and the Troubadours of the Lower East Side,’ North Dakota Quarterly 75.1 (2008): 110-23.
  • Review of The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore. Warwick Review 2.3 (2008): 94-97.

Contact details

E: michael.faherty@beds.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 793148

Bedfordshire University

Apply» Faculties & Departments» Division of Performing Arts & English» Staff» Dr Michael Faherty

Top