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Dr. Martin Dubois serves as Associate Professor in the Department of English Studies at Durham University, where he joined in 2018 after teaching positions at Newcastle and Teesside Universities. He directs the Centre for Poetry and Poetics and holds significant administrative roles including former Chair of the MA Board of Examiners and Co-Director of Postgraduate Studies.
His research centers on Victorian poetry with three major strands: groundbreaking work on Gerard Manley Hopkins challenging unified interpretations of his religious poetry; innovative studies of Victorian nonsense literature examining Edward Lear's colonial dimensions; and pioneering research on vernacular/dialect poetics analyzing voice-print relationships. His monograph Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Poetry of Religious Experience (2017) and edited collection Gerard Manley Hopkins in Context (2025) represent key contributions to the field.
Dubois's recent publications reveal evolving scholarly trajectories across religious poetry, nonsense studies, and dialect representation. His work demonstrates increasing interdisciplinary reach while maintaining Victorian literary focus, with notable methodological shifts toward postcolonial analysis and linguistic materiality.
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Editorial board member, Hopkins Quarterly
- Book reviews in Modern Language Review, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Tennyson Research Bulletin
Actively supervising postgraduate research, Dubois has successfully guided three PhD candidates to completion while examining seven additional dissertations. His leadership extends to directing the Centre for Poetry and Poetics, fostering collaborative research environments, and developing postgraduate programs that integrate historical scholarship with contemporary theoretical approaches.
