A/Prof Richard Lansdown ~ Adjunct Professor

I got both my Bachelor of Arts and my PhD (on Lord Byron's historical dramas) at University College London, before moving to Australia in 1990. No sooner had I done that than I got my first teaching job as a lecturer in English Philology at the University of Tampere, in Finland -- a wonderful country and a great place to work. Meanwhile my PhD was published by Oxford University Press.

I returned to Australia in 1992 and taught at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga until coming to JCU in 1997. I edited a venerable, but now, alas, deceased literary journal, the Critical Review, between 1993 and 2002. A second book, a mild polemic called The Autonomy of Literature, was published by Macmillan in 2001. Since then I have edited Henry James' novel, The Bostonians, for Penguin Classics; edited a critical anthology of the the Western idea of the insular Pacific called Strangers in the South Seas with the University of Hawai'i Press in 2006; published The Cambridge Introduction to Byron with Cambridge University Press in 2012; and edited a new selection of Byron's letters and journals for Oxford University Press in 2015. A monograph, A New Scene of Thought: Studies in Romantic Realism, was published by Brill in January 2016, and a collection of essays, also with Brill, Literature and Truth in December 2017. My contribution to the Oxford University Press 'Twenty-First Century Authors' series, on John Ruskin, was published in 2019. Currently I am working on a new selection of the remarkable letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle, the wife of Victorian historian-cum-prophet-cum-satirist, Thomas Carlyle. 

Interests

Research

• British and European nineteenth-century literature, in particular Lord Byron, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, John Ruskin, and the Carlyles.
• Western ideas of the Pacific, from the classical world to postmodernity.
• Ideas of literature, in particular what defines it and how it operates in respect to discursive realms of knowledge.

Teaching

• British literature in particular, but not exclusively, from the nineteenth century, but also from the Renaissance and modern eras.

Experience

• 2017 to present - Professor, University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
• 2007 to 2017 - Associate Professor, JCU (Cairns)
• 2000 to 2007 - Senior Lecturer, JCU (Cairns)
• 1996 to 1999 - Lecturer, JCU (Cairns)
• 1992 to 1996 - Lecturer, Charles Sturt University (Wagga Wagga, NSW)
• 1990 to 1992 - Lecturer, University of Tampere (Finland)

Research Disciplines

• Literary Studies (2005)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Communication (9502)
• Expanding Knowledge (9701)
• Cultural Understanding (9599)

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Journal Articles

• Lansdown R (in press) Island fictions, intellectual fictions: dramas of Pacific isolation in Stevenson, Wells, and Conrad. Literary Imagination, , DOI:10.1093/litimag/imaa012.
• Lansdown R (2017) Berlioz' Memoirs and Delacroix's Journal: context, personality, ethos. Romanticism, 23 (1), pp. 1-14, DOI:10.3366/rom.2017.0302.
• Lansdown R (2016) A 'nødvendighetens skinn'?: the conclusion of Ibsen's Lille Eyolf and its Meaning. Scandinavica, 55 (2), pp. 43-73.
• Lansdown R (2016) "Think I shall like these tropics": D. H. Lawrence and Edward, Prince of Wales in Sri Lanka in 1922. Etropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 15 (1), pp. 50-56.
• Lansdown R (2014) Politics and art: James Kelman's 'Not Not While the Giro'. Scottish Literary Review, 6 (2), pp. 67-92.
• Lansdown R (2014) Crucible or centrifuge?: Bronislaw Malinowski's Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term. Configurations, 22 (1), pp. 29-55, DOI:10.1353/con.2014.0008.
• Lansdown R (2014) Prospects of Europe: the first iteration of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Keats-Shelley Review, 28 (1), pp. 37-48, DOI:10.1179/0952414214Z.00000000041.
• Lansdown R (2014) James Montgomery's Pelican Island: imagination, religion, evolution. Wordsworth Circle, 45 (1), pp. 39-48.
• Lansdown R (2013) 'Natural chronometers': coral islands and the discovery of time, from Buffon to Darwin. Etropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 12 (2), pp. 220-229.

Books

• Lansdown R (2016) A New Scene of Thought: studies in Romantic realism. Costerus New Series, 213. Brill-Rodopi, Leiden, The Netherlands
• Lansdown R (2015) Byron's Letters and Journals: a new selection. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK

Book Chapters

• Lansdown R (2018) A marginal interest? Byron and the visual arts. In: Byron and Marginality. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 271-290

More

ResearchOnline@JCU stores 30+ research outputs authored by A/Prof Richard Lansdown from 2000 onwards.

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

• Manifestations of the Ego: Egoism in the Modernist Manifesto (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Femmes Fatales: the French Female Figure in Victorian Fiction, 1847-1886 (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• "The Faerie Queene": Moral Purposes, Creative Accidents (PhD , Primary Advisor)

Completed

• Science fictions, cultural facts: a digital humanities approach to a popular literature (2019, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• The cyclone written into our place: the cyclone as trope of apocalypse and place in Queensland literature (2018, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Painting in the tropics (2015, PhD , Secondary Advisor)

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• Menadue, C. (2017) Science fiction and fantasy opinion survey. James Cook University
• Menadue, C. (2016) Science fiction and fantasy experience survey. James Cook University