Staff Profile:Dr Tom Woodman

Name:

Dr Tom Woodman

Job Title:

Senior Lecturer

Responsibilities:

I am responsible for University Open Days; Bookshop Liaison

Within the department I convene modules in:
Eighteenth Century
Crime Fiction
Roots of Romanticism

I have also contributed to courses in:
Renaissance Epic

Areas of Interest:

My primary research interest is Eighteenth Century Literature. I have also developed a research interest in those areas in which I teach, particularly crime fiction. I continue to have a strong interest in religion and literature.

Research groups / Centres:

Publications:

Recent publications reflect my interests and include:
Biblical Religion and the Novel (edited, 2006), and an essay on
Chesterton's Father Brown stories and on Graham Greene's images of the
church. I am now working on a book about Richard Dawkins and the response
of contemporary Christianity.

I have also published
Politeness and Poetry in the Age of Pope (1989)

Faithful Fictions: The Catholic Novel in British Fiction (1991)
A Preface to Johnson (1993)
Early Romantics (edited 1998)