Charles I. Armstrong

Charles I. Armstrong is professor of British literature at the University of Agder (in Norway). At the University of Agder, he is a member of the Agder Irish Network (AINE) and the research group Trauma Fictions in Contemporary Culture. He is a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Irish Studies, NUI-Galway. He has been an invited speaker at the W. B. Yeats International Summer School in 2005, 2011 and 2014. The secretary of the newly founded International Yeats Society, he is also a board member (and former president) of the Nordic Irish Studies Network, a member of the editorial Advisory Board of Romantik: Journal for the Study of Romanticisms, the editorial Board of both Nordic Irish Studies and the new journal of the International Yeats Society, as well as a member of the International Editorial Board of the Yeats Journal of Korea. His most recent monograph is Reframing Yeats: Genre, Allusion and History, published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2013. He has also published two earlier monographs: Figures of Memory: Poetry, Space and the Past (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and Romantic Organicism: From Idealist Origins to Ambivalent Afterlife (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). He is the co-editor of three volumes: The Crossings of Art in Ireland (Peter Lang, 2014), Crisis and Contemporary Poetry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Postcolonial Dislocations: Travel, History, and the Ironies of Narrative (Novus, 2006). In recent years he has published mainly on Yeats and contemporary Irish poetry, but he has also published essays on Romanticism, Victorian poetry, Modernist poetry and fiction, literary theory, contemporary film and Norwegian poetry.