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Professor Nicholas Seager serves as Head of the School of Humanities and Professor of English Literature at Keele University. He joined Keele in 2009 after studying at the Universities of East Anglia, Leeds, and Nottingham. His research focuses on Restoration and eighteenth-century literature, particularly Daniel Defoe, intersections of literature with history, religion, politics, and philosophy, and the relationships between historicism, formalism, and book history.
His notable achievements include editing The Correspondence of Daniel Defoe (2022), which won the Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize in 2023, co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe (2023), and leading the Cambridge Companion to Gulliver’s Travels (2023). He is an elected member of the Daniel Defoe Society and co-edits Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online.
His teaching includes courses on Renaissance literature and classic novels on screen. He has supervised numerous PhD students, focusing on eighteenth-century literature and interdisciplinary topics. Awards include the Keele Teaching Excellence Award (2013) and external examiner roles at the University of Bristol, Northampton, and Bath Spa University.
His research extends to postgraduate supervision, with completed theses on topics ranging from Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage to Arthurian narratives. Current projects include The Uses of Books in the Long Eighteenth Century with Leah Orr.
