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Dr Matthew Creasy is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow, School of Critical Studies. He previously taught at the Universities of Sheffield, Durham, and St Andrews. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, Lincoln College and Christ Church, Oxford, and as a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard (2000), his research spans Decadence, Modernism, James Joyce, Victorian periodical culture, and translation studies.
- Key projects include editing Arthur Symons' The Symbolist Movement in Literature (2014) and leading the AHRC-funded network ‘Decadence and Translation’.
- He is secretary to the Scottish Network of Modernist Studies and Vice-Chair of the British Association of Decadence Studies.
Research Trends across his work emphasize:
- Anglo-French literary exchanges, particularly Decadent and Symbolist movements
- Textual scholarship in Modernist texts like Joyce’s Ulysses
- Neo-Victorian adaptations and children’s literature studies
- Victorian periodical culture and its impact on Modernist aesthetics
Scientific Awards:
- AHRC Network Grant (2018): ‘Decadence and Translation’
- RSE Workshop (2020): ‘Scottish Cosmopolitanism at the Fin de Siècle’
Teaching includes undergraduate courses on British Children’s Literature and Victorian Literature, plus postgraduate lectures on Decadence and Modernism. He supervises PhD topics in areas like Walter de la Mare, gender representation in comics, and China Miéville’s fantasy works.
