Education and Positions Held
He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A., M.A.), where he edited Icarus, and Oxford University (DPhil). He has spent periods as a Fellow of the Yaddo Foundation, New York; as a Visiting Scholar at St. John's College, Oxford; a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge; and a Visiting Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.
He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the English Association. A member of staff at the University of Sheffield since 1975, he was promoted to a Personal Chair in 1994. He is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London.
He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2007.
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