About
Associate Professor Simon Rennie, affiliated with the University of Exeter's College of Humanities and Department of English and Creative Writing, specializes in Victorian poetry with a focus on working-class and politically engaged works of the mid-19th century. His research includes the AHRC-funded Lancashire Cotton Famine Poetry project (2017-2019), resulting in a public database of poems reflecting the global social impacts of the American Civil War.
- Current roles: Marketing and Communications Officer (2024), former Director of Online Learning (2020-2023)
- Supervises PhD projects on Cotton Famine poetry, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, working-class fiction, and Arab-American spoken word poetry
- Published monographs: The Poetry of Ernest Jones (Routledge, 2016) and upcoming Cotton Famine Poetry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)
- Interests include Victorian newspaper poetry and Anthony Burgess studies
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