Dr John Lennard

Born in Bristol and educated at Oxford and St Louis, I have taught English, American and Commonwealth Literature in Cambridge, London, and Jamaica (where I held a Chair in British and American Literature) for over more than 30 years.

I have written two widely used textbooks (on poetry and drama) and monographs on Shakespeare, Paul Scott, Nabokov, Faulkner, Tolkien, E L James, and David Weber, as well as two collections of essays on contemporary genre writers in crime, science fiction and fantasy, and romance.

Enthusiastic, discursive, widely knowledgeable, and a demon for punctuation (I am a General Editor of CUP’s forthcoming History of Punctuation in English Literature), I have been a Summer Programme Course Director and Panel Tutor for the University of Cambridge Professional and Continuing Education since 1992, and also teach on weekend courses at Madingley Hall.