Jo Poppleton

Satire (ancient to modern); literary fakery; literary genres in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries: the political and religious culture of the early eighteenth century; eighteenth-century print culture; early eighteenth-century aesthetics and the evolution of the sublime; religious verse and poetry about the natural world; intersections between literature and science. 

Jo has taught and / or convened on many of UEA’s undergraduate literature modules, including:

Year 1 / Level 4:

• Reading Texts I and Reading Texts II (2004-2010;2018)
• Literature in History I (2002-2010)
• Reading and Writing Criticism (2018)

Year 2 / Level 5:

• Seventeenth-Century Writing (2002; convenor 2010-2013)
• Eighteenth-Century Writing (2007-2016; convenor from 2012-2016)
• Shakespeare (2005-2013)
• Fakes, Frauds and Hoaxes (new in 2018)

Year 3 / Level 6:

• Satire (2011-current; convenor from 2011-present)
• The Business of Books (new in 2018)
• Literature and Science 1660-1750 (new in 2018)

Before taking up a full time lectureship in 2009, Jo completed a UEA undergraduate literature degree (1996-99), and an AHRC-funded PhD at UEA on science and early eighteenth-century verse (2006).

Spring 2010-Spring 2013: LDC Director of Teaching Quality