Dr Richard Canning

Photograph: Richard Canning.

MA, Oxford 1989; PhD, Oxford 1997

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Phone number: +44 (0)114-222-8460

Fax: +44 (0)114-222-8481

email : r.canning@sheffield.ac.uk

I joined Sheffield University's English Literature Department in 1994, having formerly held a lectureship in American literature at Warwick University. My Ph.D. was on the literature of AIDS. I have published widely in the fields of gay literature and AIDS, and have organised conferences on these topics in Key West, Florida and Sheffield. I am the author of Gay Fiction Speaks: Conversations with Gay Novelists (New York: Columbia University Press, December 2000). Two further volumes of these interviews are due to appear in 2001 and 2002. I am currently working on a life of the 1920s English novelist Ronald Firbank, for which I have been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship.

I teach widely in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American literature, including on both undergraduate and MA-level modules closely relating to my research interests. I currently supervise seven research students on such topics as: AIDS and Poetry; Blue-collar Beat Literature; Gay Literature of the 1930s; Gender and Violence in Contemporary Fiction; Contemporary Gay Fiction; Michael Field.

I am currently Tutor for Admissions for English Literature-related undergraduate courses.