Autor/-in: Rick Rylance

Rick Rylance is Professor of English and Director of the Institute for English Studies in the School of Advanced Study at the University of London. Until 2016, he was Chief Executive of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Chair of Research Councils UK (RCUK). Prior to that he was Head of the School of Arts, Languages and Literatures at the University of Exeter. He has held a number of public roles including chairing the English Panel in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. Current roles include the Governing Board of the Global Research Council. In research, he is particularly interested in the psychology of reading and its social impacts, and the possibilities of interdisciplinary research. Among other publications, he is author of Victorian Psychology and British Culture 1850-1880 (OUP 2000). He is currently writing volume 11 of the Oxford English Literary History covering the years 1930-1970.