Ian McCormick

Ian McCormick, M.A. (St Andrews); PhD (Leeds), was a Professor in the Department of English (School of Cultural Studies) at the University of Northampton, where he taught Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature, 18th-century Literature, and Literary Theory. He has edited and contributed to books in various fields: sexuality and gender studies; modern and postmodern literature; teaching and learning strategies; drama education and critical theory.
Most recent academic publications: "Border Crossings: Foucault, Philosophy and Fiction" in Finding Philosophers in Global Fiction: Redefining the Philosopher in Multi-cultural Contexts (Bloomsbury, 2024); "The state of play: transgressive caricature and transnational Enlightenment" in TransGothic in Literature and Culture (Routledge); a chapter in Sex and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature (Routledge). Inspired by eighteenth-century satirical epistolary fiction, he has also published a novel: Class and Cloister: the St Andrews Correspondence (2023). Awards and Prizes: King James VI Prize (St Andrews); Lawson Memorial Prize (St Andrews); British Academy Major State Research Studentship (UK). In the past Ian organized two major international conferences for the British Society for Eighteenth-century Studies, at St John's College (University of Oxford).