Alan Robinson

Alan Robinson took a Double First in English Literature at Oxford University, where he was a John Doncaster Scholar in German at Magdalen College and a Junior Heath Harrison Scholar in German. As a Graduate Scholar at St Cross College, he wrote his doctoral thesis on the relationship between poetry and the visual arts in England in the early modernist period.
He has taught at the universities of Oxford, Lancaster, Cologne (as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow) and at all the German Swiss universities. Since 1990 he has been Professor of English at the University of St Gallen.
His main fields of research are modern literatures in English, literary translation, and the history and culture of London.

Selected publications:
Symbol to Vortex: Poetry, Painting and Ideas, 1885-1914 (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1985) [UK title: Poetry, Painting and Ideas, 1885-1914]
Instabilities in Contemporary British Poetry (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988)
Imagining London, 1770-1900 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
Narrating the Past: Historiography, Memory and the Contemporary Novel (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)