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Personal statement

Neil Sammells is formerly the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Provost) at 黑料正能量 and Professor of English and Irish Literature, with cross-institutional responsibility for research, learning and teaching, quality assurance, curriculum development, marketing and communications.

Formerly Dean of Humanities and Head of English at BSU, he has research interests in modern drama and Irish writing, with a particular interest in Oscar Wilde. He is the author of Tom Stoppard: the Artist as Critic; (Macmillan, 1988) and Wilde Style: The Plays and Prose of Oscar Wilde; (Longman, 2000). He is also the co-editor (with Paul Hyland) of books on Irish writing and writing and censorship and is founding editor of Irish Studies Review.

Professor Sammells was a member of the executive council of the British Association for Irish Studies for many years and, in 2000, was convenor of the annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures.

In addition to his scholarly publications, Professor Sammells is an experienced broadcaster who has appeared on a number of radio arts programmes such as Nightwaves, Kaleidoscope and .

He has been an institutional auditor for the Quality Assurance Agency and a member of the Higher Education Academy's
Advisory Panel for the award of National Teaching Fellowships.

Academic qualifications

  • BA(Hons) Oxford
  • PhD London

Recent professional updating

  • Leadership Foundation for HE, Top Management Programme
  • Entrepreneurial Universities Leaders Programme

Professional memberships

  • Member British Association for Irish Studies
  • Member International Association for Study Of Irish Literatures

Other external roles

  • External auditor for QAA
  • External auditor for SKVC

Teaching Specialism

  • 19th and Twentieth Century English and Irish Literature and Drama; specifically Tom Stoppard, Oscar Wilde

Research outputs

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Sammells, N (2004) Beyond borders : IASIL essays in modern Irish writing. Sulis, Bath. ISBN 9780954564810

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Sammells, N (2000) Wilde style: the plays and prose of Oscar Wilde. Longman, Harlow. ISBN 9780582357600

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Marshall, A and Sammells, N (1998) Irish encounters: poetry, politics and prose since 1880. Sulis, Bath. ISBN 9780952685647

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Kerridge, R and Sammells, N (1998) Writing the environment: ecocriticism and literature. Zed Books, London. ISBN 9781856494304

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Hyland, P, Briggs, S and Sammells, N (1998) Reviewing Ireland: essays and interviews from Irish Studies Review. Sulis, Bath. ISBN 9780952685661

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Cologne-Brookes, G, Sammells, N and Timms, D (1996) Writing and America. Crosscurrents . Addison-Wesley-Longman, London. ISBN 0582214173

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Hyland, P and Sammells, N (1992) Writing and censorship in Britain. Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415073325

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Hyland, P and Sammells, N (1991) Irish writing: exile and subversion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. ISBN 9780333525425

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Sammells, N (1988) Tom Stoppard: the artist as critic. Palgrave Macmillan, London. ISBN 9780312005344

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Sammells, N (2008) 'The Irish Wilde.' In: Smith, P, ed. Approaches to teaching the works of Oscar Wilde. Modern Language Association of America, New York, N.Y, pp. 35-42. ISBN 9781603290098

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Sammells, N (2004) 'Oscar Wilde and the politics of style.' In: Richards, S, ed. The Cambridge companion to twentieth-century Irish drama. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 109-121. ISBN 9780521008730

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Sammells, N (2001) 'The early plays.' In: Kelly, K, ed. The Cambridge companion to Tom Stoppard. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 104-119. ISBN 9780521645928

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Sammells, N (1998) 'Oscar Wilde, the fairy tale, and the critics.' In: Stewart, B, ed. That other world: the supernatural and the fantastic in Irish literature and its contexts, vol. 2. Colin Smythe, Gerrards Cross, pp. 228-39. ISBN 9780861404186

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Sammells, N (2018) 'Irish Studies Review at 25.' Irish Studies Review, 26 (4). pp. 431-435. ISSN 1469-9303

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Sammells, N (2005) 'A Little Oscar Wilde: Houston, Texas, 1911.' Irish Studies Review, 13 (3). pp. 397-401. ISSN 14699303

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Sammells, N (1999) 'The line is immaterial: Oscar Wilde and some trends in contemporary Irish studies.' Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory, 10 (1). pp. 1-11. ISSN 1043-6928

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Sammells, N (1995) 'Pulp fictions: Oscar Wilde and Quentin Tarantino.' Irish Studies Review, 3 (11). pp. 39-46. ISSN 09670882

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Sammells, N (2016) Oscar Wilde: be cool. In: Professorial Lecture Series 2016-17, 14 December 2016, 黑料正能量, Bath, UK.

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Sammells, N (2002) Wilde now. In: Oscar Wilde Symposium, 2002, Magdalen College, Oxford.

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Sammells, N (2002) Wilde and Anglo-American Dandyism. In: American Conference for Irish Studies, 2002, Marquette University, MI.

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Sammells, N (1998) Pulp fictions: Oscar Wilde and Quentin Tarantino. In: International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, 1998, Barcelona.

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Sammells, N (1998) Wilde nature. In: American Conference for Irish Studies, 1998, Fordham University, NY.

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Sammells, N (1997) Current trends in Irish Studies. In: International Association for the Study of Irish literatures, 1997, Gothenburg.