Professor Peter Middleton
Emeritus Professor

Professor Peter Middleton is a Professor of English at the University of Southampton.
I came to Southampton after studying at Oxford, Sheffield and SUNY Buffalo. My research interests include science and literature, modern and contemporary poetry, poetry performance, ecology and climate change, codes in new media, and creative non-fiction.
I have published books on science and poetry, gender, memory, and poetics, and edited with Nicky Marsh a book on the teaching of modernist poetry. Other writings include essays on modern and contemporary poetry, and a book of poems. Currently I am collecting published and unpublished essays on poetry in public culture, and writing a new book on the legacy of wartime code-breaking on current models of communication.
I have supervised many PhDs to completion. Current student projects include ecopoetics, the self in contemporary poetry, gender transformations in creative writing, and astronomy and poetry. I welcome new projects on poetics, science and literature, and creative non-fiction.
I was the Leon Edel Visiting Professor of English at New York University (NYU) in the Fall semester, 2016.
I am on the editorial boards of Textual Practice, English, New Formations , and the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry.