David Fulton

David has taught both English literature and language in Britain (Edinburgh, Worcester, Islington, Brixton, Twickenham, Uxbridge) and around the world (the People’s Republics of Yugoslavia and China).

Research Overview

British poetic modernism and its tradition, particularly Hulme, Ford, Flint, Aldington, Lawrence, MacDiarmid, Bunting, Jones, Graham, Thomas, Gunn, Levertov, Tomlinson, Fisher, Hamilton, Prynne and Raworth.

American poetic modernism and its tradition, particularly Pound, Moore, WC Williams, Oppen, Niedecker, Zukofsky, Duncan, Olson and Kleinzahler.

Teaching Activity

Modernism, modern poetry, the history of the English language and of drama, creative writing (theory and practice).

Publications

Journal Papers

(2010) Fulton, D., Heaven or hell: Representations of Ilford in the writings of Denise Levertov and Kathleen Raine, EnterText: An Interdisciplinary Humanities e-Journal 8 (Spring 2010) : 85- 112 Download publication

(2009) Fulton, D., Introducing students to creative writing: a different emphasis, New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing 6 (3) : 215- 222

(2007) Fulton, DK., Addressing the problem: Gunn, Doty and the AIDS elegy, EnterText 6 (6) : 381- 416 Download publication

(1999) Fulton, DK., Too Much Birthday Cake”: Gunn and the English Resistance to American Confessional Verse,’, Symbiosis 3.1 41- 53

Book Chapters

(2006) Fulton, D., Denise Levertov and the poetry of multiculturalism. In: Tylee, C. ed. "In the Open": Jewish women writers and British culture. Newark: University of Delaware Press 164- 185

Books

(2002) Fulton, DK., Entries on Roy Fisher, Hugo Williams and David Mercer for The Continuum Encyclopaedia of British Literature.