Matthew Reynolds

Professor of English and Comparative Criticism  

Affiliation: Faculty of English
Expert in: Language and migration
Geographic focus: UK, France, Italy

I am interested in how literature germinates between and crosses languages; in translation as a creative process, especially as it involves Italian, French, the classics and the many languages of English; in comparative and world literature; in writing about visual art; and in the practice of fiction. I am most at home in the 19th & 20th & 21st centuries but my work has ranged back as far as the early modern period. My current research (AHRC-funded, 2016-20) develops the concept of Prismatic Translation, looking at the power of translation to multiply and regenerate texts in different times and places.