John Haffenden

John Haffenden

Education and positions held

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A graduate of

He was a British Academy research reader, 1989–91; Leverhulme Research Fellow, 1995–96.

He has been a Fellow of the Yaddo Foundation, 1975; visiting fellow commoner, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1995–96; visiting scholar, St John's College, Oxford, 1997; visiting fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford 1998.

He is a member of the Society of Authors; a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; Fellow of the English Association; Fellow of the British Academy; Hon Member of the T.S.Eliot Society of America; Hon Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Since 2009 he is senior research fellow of the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London; principal investigator of the T.S.Eliot Editorial Research Project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, 2009–14; general editor of the Letters of T.S.Eliot.

Publications

• Henry's Fate & Other Poems 1967–1972, by
  Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1977; London: Faber & Faber
  , 1978)
• John Berryman: A Critical Commentary (London: Macmillan; New York: New York University Press, 1980)
• Viewpoints: Poets in Conversation (London: Faber & Faber, 1981)
• The Life of
  Routledge & Kegan Paul
  , 1982)
• Routledge & Kegan Paul
  , 1982)
• Novelists in Interview (London and New York: Methuen, 1985)
• The Royal Beasts and Other Works, by William Empson; edited with an Introduction (London: Chatto & Windus, 1987; Iowa University Press, 1988)
• Argufying: Essays on Literature and Culture, by
  Sunday Times
• Essays on Renaissance Literature, Vol 1: "Donne and the New Philosophy, by William Empson; edited with an Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 1993)
• Essays on Renaissance Literature, Vol 2: The Drama, by William Empson; edited with an Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 1993)
• The Strengths of Shakespeare's Shrew: Essays, Memoirs and Interviews, by William Empson; edited with an Introduction (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996)
• Farrar, Straus & Giroux
  , 1999; London: Tauris, 2000)
• The Complete Poems of
  Times Literary Supplement, 1 December 2000; by David Sexton as 'Book of the Year', Evening Standard
  (London) December 2000
• William Empson: Among the Mandarins (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). Winner of the American Publishers Association Award for Biography and Autobiography, 2005
• William Empson: Against the Christians (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
• Selected Letters of William Empson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)