John Strachan

John Strachan is Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise, Dean of Graduate College, and Professor of English Literature at Bath Spa University. With degrees from Southampton, Oxford, and a doctorate from Oxford, his research focuses on British Romanticism, particularly popular culture, satire, literary magazines, and the works of Leigh Hunt, John Keats, and William Wordsworth.

He has published extensively on literature-advertising relationships, including Advertising and Satirical Culture in the Romantic Period and Advertising, Literature and Print Culture in Ireland, 1891-1922. Strachan serves as Associate Editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Royal Society of Arts, and Royal Asiatic Society.

Strachan directs GuildHE Research, co-chairs the Charles Lamb Society, and leads the South West and Wales Africa Research Network. His awards include British Academy and Leverhulme Trust research fellowships.