Gabriel Rolfe, Magdalene

Biographical Information

I am a Vice-Chancellor's and Magdalene College Scholar with a broad research interest in English poetry, its history, theory, and practice. My doctoral thesis, 'The academic vocation in Geoffrey Hill and J.H. Prynne', is a study of these two poets in the context of the post-War university in Britain, drawing upon extensive archival material relating to both Hill and Prynne's academic employment. 

I have supervised undergraduate work for the English Tripos Part IA, 'Practical Criticism and Critical Practice', and Part II, 'History & Theory of Literary Criticism'. Previously I read English as an undergraduate at Magdalen College, Oxford, and as a postgraduate at University College London, where I was awarded the John Oliver Hobbes Memorial Scholarship in Modern English Literature. As a poet, I recently received the John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan Prize.