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Associate Professor Sean Pryor is affiliated with the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in the School of the Arts and Media as a faculty member in the Department of English. His research specializes in 19th- and 20th-century poetry and poetics, with a focus on modernism, the intersection of philosophy and poetics, historical versification, and adaptation of religious modes in post-Romantic poetry.
- Authored two monographs: Poetry, Modernism, and an Imperfect World (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and the Poetry of Paradise (Ashgate, 2011).
- Co-edited special issue of Critical Quarterly on Historical Poetics (2019) and Writing, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies (Open Humanities Press, 2016).
- Current projects include editorial leadership of Affirmations: of the modern (co-editor since 2013) and research on the Fall archetype in modernist literature.
His academic journey began with a BA (Hons I) and MPhil at the University of Sydney, followed by a PhD from the University of Cambridge (2007). He joined UNSW in 2008 as a Faculty Postdoctoral Fellow, was promoted to Lecturer in 2010, and secured an ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2011. He held leadership roles at the Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia (Acting Director in 2014, Deputy Director in 2016).
Research Supervision spans Honours, Masters, and PhD theses in modernist literature and poetry. Notable supervisees include Mariya Nikolova (2020), Tanya Thaweeskulchai (2018), and Christopher Oakey (2017, 2012). His teaching includes core courses like ARTS2033 Poetry and Poetics and ARTS2034 Shakespearean Drama. He actively peer-reviews for presses (Cambridge University Press, Bloomsbury) and journals (Modernism/modernity, Paideuma).
Scientific Awards
- ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2011)
Students
- Mariya Nikolova
- Tanya Thaweeskulchai
- Christopher Oakey (PhD and MRes)
- Kristin Grogan
