David Punter

David Punter (born 19 November 1949, in Harrow, London) is Professor of English at the University of Bristol.^[1] He is the author of many critical studies, and has been internationally recognised as an expert on Gothic culture.

Career

Punter's academic career commenced as a senior lecturer at the University of East Anglia. He left in 1986 to take up the post of Professor of English and Head of Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 1989 he was appointed Head of Department at the University of Stirling in Scotland. In 2000 he moved to the University of Bristol, where has been Graduate Dean and Research Director of the Faculty of Arts.^[1]

Punter has published 24 critical books, and four books of poetry, as well as hundreds of essays and articles.^[1] His major interest has been in Gothic fiction and the wider culture of the Gothic.^[2] He has also published books on prose and poetry from the eighteenth century to the present day and literary theory, deconstruction, psychoanalysis and ‘anti-canon theory’.

In the role of Orator at the University of Bristol, Punter has delivered eulogies for the honorary degrees conferred on Michael Eavis,^[3] Julia Donaldson,^[4] and Terry Pratchett.

Academic achievements

Punter obtained his BA, MA and PhD at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He has subsequently been awarded a DLitt for published work from the University of Stirling. He is a Fellow of the English Association (FEA); a Fellow of the Higher Education Association (FHEA); a Fellow of the Institute for Contemporary Scotland (FCS); a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (Scotland) (FSAScot); and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).^[1]

Punter currently represents the University of Bristol on the Culture, Arts and Humanities Task force of the Coimbra Group of European Universities. At Bristol he was responsible for the establishment of the Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts.^[5] Punter chairs the Executive Board of the International Gothic Association, as well as the Editorial Board of its journal, Gothic Studies. ^[6]

Major Publications

Academic

• The Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the Present Day, 1980; republished in two volumes 1996, Longman, Vol. 1: The Gothic Tradition, ISBN 0-582-23714-9 Vol. 2: The Modern Gothic, ISBN 0582290554
• Romanticism and Ideology: Studies in English Writing 1765-1830 (with David Aers and Jonathan Cook), 1981, Routledge & Kegan Paul, ISBN 0710007817
• Blake, Hegel and Dialectic, 1982, Amsterdam, Rodopi, ISBN 9062036945
• The Hidden Script: Writing and the Unconscious, 1985, Routledge & Kegan Paul, ISBN 0710099517
• Introduction to Contemporary Cultural Studies (ed.), 1986, Longman, ISBN 0582493668
• William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose, ed., 1988, Routledge, ISBN 9780415006668
• The Romantic Unconscious: A Study in Narcissism and Patriarchy, 1989, New York University Press, ISBN 0814766129
• Selected Poems of Philip Larkin: Notes, 1991, Longman, ISBN 058206564X
• William Blake: New Casebook, ed., 1996, Macmillan, ISBN 0312160321
• Gothic Pathologies: The Text, the Body and the Law, 1998, Longman, ISBN 0312212607
• Spectral Readings: Towards a Gothic Geography, ed., with Glennis Byron, 1999, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 0312222238
• A Companion to the Gothic, ed., 2000. Blackwell, ISBN 0631231994
• Writing the Passions, 2000, Longman, ISBN 0582304598
• Postcolonial Imaginings: Fictions of a New World Order, 2000, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 8126905549
• 'The Whitsun Weddings' and Selected Poems, Philip Larkin, 2003, Pearson Education, ISBN 058277229X
• William Blake's 'Songs of Innocence and of Experience', 2003, Longman, ISBN 0582784336
• The Gothic (with Glennis Byron), 2004, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 9780631220633
• The Influence of Postmodernism on Contemporary Writing: An Interdisciplinary Study (otherwise known as Writing in the Twenty-First Century), 2005, Blackwell, ISBN 0631203133
• Metaphor, 2007, Routledge, ISBN 9780415281669)
• The Midnight Bell by Francis Lathom, ed., 2007, Valancourt Books, ISBN 9781934555125
• Modernity, 2007, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 9780333914564

Poetry

• China and Glass, 1985
• Lost in the Supermarket, 1987
• Asleep at the Wheel, 1996, Amani, ISBN 0952914301
• Selected Short Stories, 1999. Hub Editions, ISBN 1870653785

External links

• David Punter, University of Bristol website

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Who’s Who 2011, A&C Black, 2011
2. ^ "David Punter/Global Gothic". Global Gothic, University of Stirling. 11 January 2007. http://www.globalgothic.stir.ac.uk/show_people.php?id=68&type=adv. Retrieved 21 June 2011. 
3. ^ Punter, David (14 February 2006). "Michael, Eavis, Master of Arts". University of Bristol. http://www.bristol.ac.uk/pace/graduation/honorary-degrees/hondeg06/eavis.html. Retrieved 21 June 2011. 
4. ^ Punter, David (22 February 2011). "Julia Donaldson, Doctor of Letters". University of Bristol. http://www.bristol.ac.uk/pace/graduation/honorary-degrees/hondeg11/donaldson.html. Retrieved 21 June 2011. 
5. ^ "Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts". University of Bristol. 14 August 2010. http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/birtha/. Retrieved 21 June 2011. 
6. ^ "Gothic Studies". International Gothic Association. http://www.iga.stir.ac.uk/gs.php. Retrieved 21 June 2011. 

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Name	Punter, David
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Short description	British academic and educator
Date of birth	19 November 1949
Place of birth	Harrow, London, England, UK
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