Dr Chris Jones received his BA from King's College London and an MA in Medieval English from the Queen's University of Belfast. After several years teaching English as a foreign language in Rome, Berlin and Oxford, Chris came to St Andrews to research his PhD on the role and influence of Old English in nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry. He was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship in 2007 and is a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Young Academy of Scotland. Chris has also written for the Guardian, on the occasion of Tony Blair's resignation from office, and for the Times Higher Education on the arts of foraging.
Chris is a Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Young Academy, and a Fellow of the English AssociatiDr Chris Jones received his BA from King's College London and an MA in Medieval English from the Queen's University of Belfast. After several years teaching English as a foreign language in Rome, Berlin and Oxford, Chris came to St Andrews to research his PhD on the role and influence of Old English in nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry. He was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship in 2007 and is a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Young Academy of Scotland. Chris has also written for the Guardian, on the occasion of Tony Blair's resignation from office, and for the Times Higher Education on the arts of foraging.
Chris is a Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Young Academy, and a Fellow of the English Association.
Chris has wide research interests in poetry, especially that of the Anglo-Saxon period and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is interested in reception, influence, poetics and poetic technique, textuality the materiality of poetic language. He also works on the phenomenon of Medievalism: the reception and adaptation of of the Middle Ages in the post-medieval world. Chris has written on Beowulf, Old English, Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Morris, Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, W. S. Graham, Edwin Morgan, Seamus Heaney and Basil Bunting. He oversees a joint, Carnegie-funded project with the University Library to develop their extensive archive of Douglas Dunn's unpublished papers. Chris is also commissioning co-editor for Boydell & Brewer's Book Series 'Medievalism'....more