Terry Gifford

He was the founding Director of the International Festival of Mountaineering Literature (1987–2008), Chair of the Ted Hughes Society (2015–2021), and Chair of the Mountain Heritage Trust (2007–2010). His book D. H. Lawrence, Ecofeminism and Nature (Routledge 2023) was put on the shortlist for the Association for Studies in Literature and it garnered the Environment prize in 2023 for Best Academic Monograph.

Education

In 1967, he completed a Certificate of Education with a specialization in Education and English at Sheffield City College of Education. In 1973, he finished a B.Ed. Honours in English and Education at the

Career

From 1967 to 1970, he taught at Thornbridge Grammar School in Sheffield. After a secondment at BBC Radio in Sheffield, he began teaching at Rowlinson Comprehensive School, Sheffield, where he stayed on the faculty until 1979.

In 1979, he became Head of English at Yewlands Comprehensive School in Sheffield, while also lecturing at the University of Sheffield. In 1985, he became a Senior Lecturer in English at Bretton Hall College in

Selected works

A small sample of his major works, chosen to demonstrate the variety of his output, includes:

• Pastoral, 2nd edition (London: Routledge, 2020).
• Green Voices: Understanding Contemporary Nature Poetry, 2nd edition (Nottingham: Critical, Cultural and Communications Press, 2011).
• Ted Hughes (London: Routledge, 2009).
• Reconnecting with John Muir: Essays in Post-Pastoral Practice (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006).
• The Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
• ”Mountaineering Literature as Dark Pastoral” in David Borthwick, Pippa Marland and Anna Stenning (eds), Walking, Landscape and Environment, pp. 203–216, Abingdon: Routledge, 2020.
• ”The Environmental Humanities and the Pastoral Tradition”, Christopher Schliephake (ed.), Ecocriticism, Ecology, and the Cultures of Antiquity, pp. 159–173, London: Lexington Books, 2017.
• "Nature Poetry", Kirilka Stavreva (ed.) British Literature II. Gale Researcher, Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2016.
• "Pastoral, Anti-Pastoral, Post-Pastoral", Louise Westling (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Environment, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014).
• "Nether Stoical?: Re-walking Coleridge and Wordsworth’s Paths as Post-Pastoral Spaces", in Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, Vol 26 No 3 (August 2022).

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