Curriculum Vitae: Tim Youngs
This page gives an abbreviated cv listing some of my research activities
This page gives an abbreviated cv listing some of my research activities
Professor Emeritus in English and Travel Studies, Nottingham Trent University
Books
Travellers in Africa: British Travelogues 1850-1900 (Manchester University Press, 1994)
(ed.) Writing and Race (Longman, 1997)
(ed. with Peter Hulme) The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
(ed. with Glenn Hooper) Perspectives on Travel Writing (Ashgate, 2004)
(ed) “Africa”. Vol.7, Travels, Explorations & Empires 1835-1900 (Pickering & Chatto, 2004)
(ed.) Travel writing in the Nineteenth Century: Filling in the Blank Spaces (Anthem Press, 2006).
(ed. with Charles Forsdick) Travel Writing: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies 4 vols (Routledge, 2012)
The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
Beastly Journeys: Travel and Transformation in English Literature, 1885-1900 (Liverpool University Press, 2013)
(ed. with Sarah Jackson), In Transit: Poems of Travel (The Emma Press, 2018)
(ed. with Nandini Das), The Cambridge History of Travel Writing (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
(ed. with Alasdair Pettinger) The Routledge Research Companion to Travel Writing (Routledge, 2019)
In preparation:
Travel Writing: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
Other editorships
Series editor with Peter Hulme of Routledge Research in Travel Writing (research monograph series), 2006-2023
Series editor with Nandini Das of Cambridge Elements in Travel Writing (from 2020)
Associate Editor (Travel Writing) on The Oxford Companion to English Literature 7th edn., ed. Dinah Birch (OUP, 2009) and author of more than 40 entries.
Founding editor, Studies in Travel Writing, 1997-2022. Advisory editor from 2023. Six annual issues 1997-2002. From 2003-7 published twice yearly by The White Horse Press; in 2008 three issues. From 2009-present, published 4 times per year by Routledge.
Pamphlets
Talking About Travel Writing: A conversation between Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs English Association Issues in English No.8 (Leicester: English Association, 2007), 21pp.
Touching Distance (poems) (Five Leaves, 2017)
Transmission Blues (poems) (Red Ceilings, 2022)
Managed Woodland (poems) (Red Ceilings, 2024)
Selected essays, articles and interviews in journals
“‘My footsteps on these pages’: The Inscription of Self and ‘Race’ in H.M. Stanley’s How I Found Livingstone”, Prose Studies 13, 2 (September 1990), 230-49.
“Punctuating Travel: Paul Theroux and Bruce Chatwin”, in Literature & History (Third series, 6, 2, Autumn 1997), 73-88.
“‘Why is that white man pointing that thing at me?’ Representations of the Maasai”, History in Africa 26 (1999), 427-47.
Interview with Gary Younge, Studies in Travel Writing 6 (2002), 96-107.
“‘A daughter come home?’ The travel writings of Colleen J. McElroy”, New Literatures Review 42 (Oct. 2004), 57-74.
Interview with Robyn Davidson in Studies in Travel Writing 9,1 March (2005), 21-36.
Interview with William Dalrymple in Studies in Travel Writing 9,1 March (2005), 37-63.
‘Pushing against the black/white limits of maps: African American writings of travel’, English Studies in Africa 53, 2 (2010), 71-85.
‘Underground Travels: Powers Hapgood and the Miners of the World’, Forum for Modern Language Studies 49, 9 (October 2013), 472-87.
‘Interview with Sara Wheeler’, Studies in Travel Writing 18, 1 (2014), 74-84.
‘Interview with Nancy Campbell’, Studies in Travel Writing 22, 4 (December 2018), 406-19.
Selected book chapters
“Stevenson’s Monkey-Business: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” in Peter Liebregts and Wim Tigges, eds., Beauty and the Beast: Christina Rossetti, Walter Pater, R.L. Stevenson and their Contemporaries (Amsterdam and Georgia: Rodopi, 1996), 157-70.
“Cruising against the id: the transformation of Caliban in Forbidden Planet”, in Nadia Lie and Theo d’Haen, eds., Constellation Caliban: Figurations of a Character (Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA.: Rodopi, 1997), 211-29.
“Wells’s fifth dimension: The Time Machine at the fin de siècle”, in Tracey Hill and Alan Marshall, eds., Decadence and Danger: Writing, History and the Fin de Siècle (Bath: Sulis Press, 1997), 64-74.
“Digesting Africa: Representations of Eating by Nineteenth-Century British Travellers to Africa”, in Marie-Claire Rouyer, ed., Food for thought ou les avatars de la nourriture (Bordeaux: Université Michel de Montaigne--Bordeaux III, 1998), 91-106.
“Auden’s travel writings”, in Stan Smith, ed., The Cambridge Companion to W.H. Auden (Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp.68-81.
‘“A Personal Journey on a Historic Route”: Gary Younge’s No Place Like Home’ in Hagen Schulz-Forberg, ed., Unravelling Civilization: European Travel and Travel Writing (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2005), pp.323-39.
“Making it Move: The Aboriginal in the Whitefella’s Artifact”, in Julia Kuehn and Paul Smethurst, eds, Travel Writing, Form, and Empire: The Poetics and Politics of Mobility (Routledge, 2009), pp.148-66.
‘The Pacifist Traveller: Kate Crane-Gartz”, in Susan Castillo and David Seed, eds., American Travel and Empire (Liverpool University Press, 2009), pp.200-216.
“Travelling Modernists”, in Peter Brooker et al, eds, The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms (Oxford University Press, 2010), pp.267-80.
‘Following the progress of the mountain mission: the critique of heroism and nationalism in Auden and Isherwood’s The Ascent of F6’, in Françoise Besson, ed., Mountains Figured and Disfigured in the English-Speaking World (Cambridge Scholars Press 2010), pp.476-87.
“The conquest of the Arctic: the 1937 Soviet expedition”, in Anka Ryall, Johan Schimanski and Henning Howlid Wærp, eds., Arctic Discourses (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010), pp.132-50.
“Travel Writing”, in Tony Sharpe, ed., Auden in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp.237-45.
“Urban Recesses: Memory, Nature and the City”, in Françoise Besson, Claire Omhovère, Héliane Ventura, eds, The Memory of Nature in Aboriginal, Canadian and American Contexts (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014), pp.31-42.
“‘Take out your machine’: narratives of early motorcycle travel”, in Julia Kuehn and Paul Smethurst, eds, New Directions in Travel Writing Studies (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2015), pp.145-160.
“William O. Field’s Journey to the Margins of Europe”, in Waldemar Zacharasiewicz and David Staines, eds, Narratives of Encounters in the North Atlantic Triangle University of Vienna (Vienna: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2015), pp.245-58.
“Travel Writing”, in Kevin J. Hayes, ed., Herman Melville in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp.242-50.
“African American Travel Writing”, in Robert Clarke, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing (Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp.109-23.
“Travel”, in The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s, ed. James B. Smith (Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp.145-59
“British and North American Travel Writing and the Diary”, in The Diary: The Epic of Everyday Life, eds. Batsheva Ben-Amos and Dan Ben-Amos (Indiana University Press, 2020), pp.179-94.
Research grants, fellowships and other funding
I have received funding awards from bodies including the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Bibliographical Society, the British Academy and the British Association for American Studies, I have refereed for several funders and am currently a member of the College of Expert Reviewers for the European Science Foundation as well as a member of the review panel of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
I have been awarded an Everett Helms Visiting Fellowship at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, and a Helen and John S. Best Fellowship, American Geographical Society/University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. I have also held a Visiting Scholarship at the University of Tasmania.
External Examining
I have been external examiner for more than 30 PhDs on travel writing at the Universities of Warwick, Ulster, Birmingham, Trinity College Dublin, Cambridge, Salford, Stirling, University of Central England, Flinders, Chester, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona; Essex, Exeter, Oxford, London (UCL and SOAS), Glasgow, Canterbury Christ Church College, Macquarie University, Tasmania, Ümea University, Leeds, King’s College London, Reading, East Anglia, Debrecen, Canberra, Melbourne, and Oslo. I have also served as examiner for MA courses at the School of Oriental and African Studies and at Liverpool Hope University College.
I have refereed manuscripts for many publishers and journals, including the following:
Amsterdam University Press, Ashgate, Atlantic Studies, Broadview Press, Cambridge University Press, Comparative American Studies, Continuum, Edinburgh University Press, Ethnohistory, Interventions, Irish Studies Review, Liverpool University Press, Macmillan, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Journal of Transatlantic Studies, Manchester University Press, New Formations, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, Polity, Postcolonial Studies, Routledge, South African Historical Journal, Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, Terrae Incognitae, Textus, University of Michigan Press, Victorian Periodicals Review, and Victorian Popular Fictions Journal.
Conference papers
I have delivered more than 60 conference papers, over 20 as keynotes, in several countries, including by invitation at universities in Australia, Austria, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Montenegro, Norway, Romania, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey,
I have given guest lectures and seminar papers at the following institutions
Loughborough University, Sussex University, State University of New York at Oneonta, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Nottingham, University of Warwick, Göteborg University, Free University, Berlin, Humboldt University, Berlin, Greifswald University, Sheffield University, University of Versailles at Saint-Quentin, Oxford University, University of Cape Town, University of Natal at Pietermaritzburg, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, University of Essex, Kingston University, Surrey, University of Melbourne, University of Tasmania, University of Sydney, University of South Australia, University of Lincoln, Lisbon University, Porto University, Presidency College, Kolkata, University of Calcutta, University of Warwick Rostock, Liverpool Hope University, Pompeu Fabra, Lund University, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, University of Liverpool, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, Ümea University, University College Cork, Newberry Library, Chicago, University of Glasgow, Uppsala University, University of Plymouth, University of Salford
