Professor Stephen Knight - MA (Oxon.) PhD (Sydney). F.A.H.A., F.E.A.
Overview
Position:
Distinguished Research Professor in English Literature
Email:
KnightS2@cf.ac.uk Telephone: +44(0)29 208 74505
Fax: +44(0)29 208 74647
Extension: 74505
Location: Humanities Building, Colum Drive, Cathays, Cardiff
Research Group
Research Interests
Medieval cultural studies, crime fiction, Welsh fiction in English.
Selected Publications
Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction. London: Macmillan, 1980.
Arthurian Literature and Society. London: Macmillan, 1983.
Geoffrey Chaucer. Blackwell, Oxford, 1987.
Continent of Mystery: A Thematic History of Australian Crime Fiction. Melbourne: Melbourne University Pres 1997.
Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2003.
A Hundred Years of Fiction: Welsh Writing in English. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2004.
Crime Fiction 1800-2000. Detection, Death, Diversity. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Merlin: Knowledge and Power. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009 forthcoming.
Publications
Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction. London: Macmillan, 1980.
Arthurian Literature and Society. London: Macmillan, 1983.
Geoffrey Chaucer. Blackwell, Oxford, 1987.
Continent of Mystery: A Thematic History of Australian Crime Fiction. Melbourne: Melbourne University Pres 1997.
Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2003.
A Hundred Years of Fiction: Welsh Writing in English. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2004.
Crime Fiction 1800-2000. Detection, Death, Diversity. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. `second edition forthcoming, 2009'.
Merlin: Knowledge and Power. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009 forthcoming.
Research
Stephen Knight has written books on a range of topics in medieval cultural studies, notably Arthurian Literature and Society (1983), Geoffrey Chaucer (1986), Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw (1994), Robin Hood: The Forresters Manuscript (2001) and Robin Hood: a Mythic Biography (2003), which won the International Mythopoeic Society Award for Non-Fiction in 2004. He is currently working on a book on the mythic biography of Merlin. He has also written widely on crime fiction, notably Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction (1980), Continent of Mystery: A Thematic History of Australian Crime Fiction (1997) and Crime Fiction 1800-2000 (2003). He has also written widely on Welsh fiction in English, including A Hundred Years of Fiction: Writing Wales in English (2004).
Biography
In 2002, Professor Knight was given the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award for services to Australian crime fiction.
He teaches undergraduate courses on Medieval Arthurian Literature and on The Robin Hood Tradition, an MA course on Modern Arthurian Literature, and supervises PhD theses across a range of topics.