Dr Tess Somervell FHEA

I joined Worcester in 2020, after studying at Oxford and Cambridge and holding a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Leeds. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

I teach English Literature from 1550 to 1830 and literary theory, including the following papers:

• Literature in English, 1550-1660
• Literature in English, 1660-1760
• Literature in English, 1760-1830
• Elements of Criticism
• Shakespeare
• Epic
• Tragedy

My main research area is literature from the Restoration to the Romantic period. My research interests include: nature writing; ecocriticism; georgic and pastoral poetry; the long poem; time in literature; weather, climate, and climate change in literature and culture; genre, influence, reception, and allusion. My first book, Reading Time in the Long Poem: Milton, Thomson, and Wordsworth was published in 2022 with Edinburgh University Press. I also co-edited the collection Georgic Literature and the Environment: Working Land, Reworking Genre (Routledge 2022).