Dr John Lennard

I've taught for PACE, both in summer schools and weekend or day courses at Madingley, since 1992, while also teaching at Cambridge and as Professor of British and American Literature at the University of the West Indies – Mona, in Kingston. My professional interests range unusually widely, grounded in Shakespeare and practical criticism but extending to the Raj in India, post-colonial literatures, and 'genre' fiction including fantasy, science fiction, and crime – a range evident in video work I've done for Massolit. I'm also a general editor of Cambridge UP's forthcoming (and groundbreaking) 3-volume ‘History of Punctuation in English Literature’, which with nearly 100 contributors has been a 10-year exercise in herding cats ! but is now at last in production. (And yes, you can use exclamation-marks medially; question-marks, too.)

PACE teaching has always been an invigorating change from the annual round of undergrad courses – with more diverse and committed students, more widely ranging in age and experience – and remains a signal pleasure.