Dr Chris Joyce is a graduate of Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was a former Lectures Organiser for the T. S. Eliot Society (UK) and a member of the T. S. Eliot Society in America. For the latter he has lectured at St Louis Missouri and at the Oxford & Cambridge Club in London. He has a specialist interest in the history of English literary criticism with a particular focus on its development between the two world wars – the phase known as ‘Cambridge English’, on which he has published a number of chapters and papers. He has taught at the universities of Reading (where he took a PhD in the literary criticism of the inter-war period) and Surrey, and for summer seminars at Cambridge.
He is now an independent scholar lecturing for various universities and cultural organisations and leading graduate study tours on the work of a number of major English writers including the Romantic and Victorian poets and Modernists such as Yeats, Eliot and Joyce. He has worked closely with Downing College, Cambridge in developing their literary archive, and with the English Department at the University of York. He conducts frequent literary events for organisations such as Arts Travel. Upcoming tours will include Tennyson country (Isle of Wight) and Browning in Italy.
Chris will be presenting a talk on T. S. Eliot at our June 2018 meeting.