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Niall Munro is a Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Oxford Brookes University, affiliated with the School of Education, Humanities and Languages. He also serves as Director of the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre, where he leads a range of research, publication, and community engagement initiatives in poetry.
His educational background includes an undergraduate degree from the University of St. Andrews, a PGCE in English from Oxford Brookes, followed by an MA and PhD at Oxford Brookes focused on Hart Crane, the American modernist poet.
His research centers on twentieth-century American literature, particularly American modernism, the literary memory of the American Civil War, and the intersections of poetry with commemoration and cultural memory. He also explores queer theory, Depression-era American writing, and contemporary poetry in both American and British contexts.
His recent scholarly articles examine the ideological legacy of Southern Agrarians in Civil War memory and offer a critical reading of Alice Oswald’s environmental poem Dart. These works reflect his broader interest in how literature engages with historical trauma, identity, and place.
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Niall Munro supervises PhD students including Susie Campbell (prose poetry and Gertrude Stein), Sarah Gilbert (women’s anti-Vietnam War poetry), Jen Gallagher (Wilfred Owen’s publication history), and previously Jennifer Wong (diasporic poetry and identity). He has been involved in organizing several international poetry and modernist studies symposia and leads the Poetry Centre’s public programs, including the Weekly Poem initiative, ignition press, veteran poetry workshops, and an international poetry competition. He is also co-leading the interdisciplinary project Disruptive Dialogues: the Legacy of Dambudzo Marechera in Harare and Oxford, which combines archival research, creative practice, and community engagement.
