Nicholas Royle

NICHOLAS ROYLE is Professor of English at the University of Sussex, where he established the MA in Creative and Critical Writing in 2002. He is the author of two novels, both published by Myriad—Quilt (2010) and An English Guide to Birdwatching (2017)—and many other books, including studies of Elizabeth Bowen, Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida, E.M. Forster and Shakespeare. His books about literature and critical theory are widely influential and have won considerable acclaim. They include The Uncanny (2003), Veering: A Theory of Literature (2011), and An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory (fifth edition, 2016, with Andrew Bennett). This is his first memoir.