Faculty Member, Department of Literary Studies
Professor of Early Modern British Literature
About
Sandro Jung is BOF Research Professor of Early Modern British Literature and Culture and the Director of the Centre for the Study of Text and Print Culture. The editor of two learned journals, Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Journal of the Printing Historical Society, he is also project director of the four-year funded projects “Genettian Theories of Para- and Hypotextuality and Thomson’s The Seasons” (2011-2014) and “The Translation, Cultural Mediation, and Reception in Britain of Rousseau’s Discours sur les Sciences et les Arts.” He has published widely on eighteenth-century literature. His most recent book, "James Thomson’s ‘The Seasons’, Print Culture, and Visual Interpretation, 1730-1842," is forthcoming, and he is currently working on a book on the paratexts of Spenserian editions in the eighteenth century for Manchester University Press. He is also undertaking research for another book, on the history of the loco-descriptive long-poem from Drayton to little known descriptive long-poems from the 1770s. This project has been supported by a British Academy grant.
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| Address: | English Subject Group
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| Telephone: |
0032 9 264 3691 |









