John Haffenden

John Haffenden is emeritus professor of English literature at the University of Sheffield.

Education and positions held

A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited Icarus, he was supervised for his doctorate at St Peter's College, Oxford by Richard Ellmann. He was for two years a lecturer in English and Liberal Studies, Oxford College of Further Education, before teaching at the University of Exeter, 1973–74.
A member of staff at the University of Sheffield since 1975, he was made reader in 1988 and promoted to a personal chair in 1994. He was visiting lecturer, Peking University, Beijing, China, 1984; guest lecturer at the 50th Anniversary Conference of "Xinan Lienda", Kunming, China, 1988.
He was a British Academy research reader, 1989–91; Leverhulme Research Fellow, 1995–96.
He has been a Fellow of the Yaddo Foundation, 1975; visiting fellow commoner, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1995–96; visiting scholar, St John's College, Oxford, 1997; visiting fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford 1998.
He is a member of the Society of Authors; a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; Fellow of the English Association; Fellow of the British Academy; Hon Member of the T.S.Eliot Society of America; Hon Foreign Member of the American [Academy of Arts and Sciences].
Since 2009 he is senior research fellow of the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London; principal investigator of the T.S.Eliot Editorial Research Project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, 2009–14; general editor of the Letters of T.S.Eliot.

Henry's Fate & Other Poems 1967–1972, by John Berryman: edited with an Introduction
John Berryman: A Critical Commentary
Viewpoints: Poets in Conversation
The Life of John Berryman
W.H.Auden: The Critical Heritage
Novelists in Interview
The Royal Beasts and Other Works, by William Empson; edited with an Introduction
Argufying: Essays on Literature and Culture, by William Empson; edited with an Introduction. Chosen by Sir Isaiah Berlin as one of the books of the year 1987 in the Sunday Times
Essays on Renaissance Literature, Vol 1: "Donne and the New Philosophy, by William Empson; edited with an Introduction
Essays on Renaissance Literature, Vol 2: The Drama, by William Empson; edited with an Introduction
The Strengths of Shakespeare's Shrew: Essays, Memoirs and Interviews, by William Empson; edited with an Introduction
Berryman's Shakespeare; edited with an Introduction
The Complete Poems of William Empson; edited with an Introduction. Chosen by Sir Frank Kermode as one of the 'International Books of the Year', Times Literary Supplement, 1 December 2000; by David Sexton as 'Book of the Year', Evening Standard December 2000
William Empson: Among the Mandarins. Winner of the American Publishers Association Award for Biography and Autobiography, 2005
William Empson: Against the Christians
Selected Letters of William Empson

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