I am Professor Emeritus of English and Travel Studies at Nottingham Trent University where, during the course of my service, I taught some 30 different courses, mostly in North American writing after 1800, English Literature after 1780, and postcolonial writing, I specialise mostly in travel writing and African American writing. I have authored or edited a dozen books and am working on two more. I edited the journal Studies in Travel Writing, from my founding of it in 1997 until the end of 2022, and retain a role as advisory editor. From its inception in 2006 until our stepping down in 2023, Peter Hulme and I edited the monograph series Routledge Research in Travel Writing. I continue to edit with Nandini Das the short-form monograph series Elements in Travel Writing for Cambridge University Press. I founded NTU's Centre for Travel Writing Studies in 2002-3 and remained its Director until my decision to become Emeritus in 2022. I am also a poet. My debut pamphlet, Touching Distance, was published by Five Leaves in 2017 and my second, Transmission Blues, and my third, Managed Woodland, by Red Ceilings Press in 2022 and 2024 respectively. I am working towards a full collection. My poems have been published in several magazines, including Finished Creatures, The Interpreter's House, Litter, Magma, Poetry Salzburg Review, Stand, Stride and Women's Studies. Besides my ongoing research and writing, I have a keen interest in visual art, especially painting. As the representative of artist Gurminder Sikand I frequently liaise with curators.

I can be contacted at: tim[dot]youngs[at]ntu.ac.uk

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