معرفی
Dr. Luke Maxted is a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford's Balliol College, specializing in Literary Criticism and English Literature. His research focuses on Negative Constructions in the Long Nineteenth Century, supervised by Prof. Seamus Perry.
- Doctoral research traces evolution of negation in Romantic literature
- Winner of Siegel McDaniel Award and Byron Society PhD Scholarship
- Published extensively on Thomas Hardy, Philip Larkin, and John Milton
Research Interests include:
- Romanticism and 19th-century literature
- Lyric poetry and paragraph form
- Intertextuality in literary criticism
- Post-imperial melancholy in poetry
- Influence of German aesthetics on English writers
- Anti-Romantic revolt in modernist poetics
Literary Journalism contributions to Times Literary Supplement, Prospect, and Literary Review demonstrate his engagement with contemporary literary discourse. His publications reveal trends in negative epiphany, prefix/suffix analysis, and historical poetics.
Awards include
- Siegel McDaniel Award (2018)
- Byron Society PhD Scholarship (2022/23)
With 7 years of secondary school teaching experience and adult education seminars, Luke combines academic rigor with pedagogical excellence. His thesis examines how Romantic writers transformed negative constructions into abstract aesthetics.
