Paul Robichaud, Ph.D.
| Department | English and Communications |  |
|---|---|---|
| Title | Chair, Department of English and Communications Professor of English | |
| Background | Ph.D., University of Toronto M.A., University of Western Ontario B.A., University of Western Ontario | |
| Office | Weldon Hall, Room 104 | |
| Phone | (203) 773-8556 | |
| probichaud@albertus.edu | ||
| Description | Paul Robichaud is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English and Communications. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Toronto. His most recent book is Pan: the Great God’s Modern Return (2021). He has also published essays on Leonard Cohen, David Jones, and Geoffrey Hill, as well as a monograph, Making the Past Present: David Jones, the Middle Ages, and Modernism (2007). His current research project is Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, and Brittany. | |
| Publications |
Books
2021 Pan: the Great God’s Modern Return. London: Reaktion Books.
2007 Making the Past Present: David Jones, the Middle Ages, and Modernism. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press.
Selected Articles and Book Chapters
2024 “W.S. Graham and Scottish Modernism.” Reading W.S. Graham, ed. Edward Allan; under contract with Edinburgh University Press. (forthcoming)
2023 “Ways to Say Goodbye: Valedictions in Book of Longing.” The Contemporary Leonard Cohen: Response, Reappraisal, and Rediscovery, ed. Kate Pinder and Joel Deshaye. Waterloo, ON: Wilfred Laurier University Press. 293-309.
2021 “Scottish Texts and Contexts in Karen Solie’s The Caiplie Caves.” The Bottle Imp, Supplement No. 7: The Persistence of Scottish-Canadian Relations, April, 2021. Online.
2019 “Pastoral Revisions in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Espalier.” The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society. 2018:2. 40-7.
2018 “Forgiveness and Form in Geoffrey Hill’s The Triumph of Love.” Literary Imagination, 20. 2. 128–139.
2018 “David Jones and the Archipelagic Past.” Religion and Literature, 48.1. 130-40.
2017 “‘Some Wayward Art:’ David Jones and the Later Geoffrey Hill.” David Jones: Christian Modernist? Ed. Jamie Callison, Anna Johnson, and Erik Tonning. Leiden: Brill. 153-66.
2013 “Louis MacNeice’s Irish and Scottish Pasts, 1935-9.” Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, 6.1. 51-72.
2005 “MacDiarmid and Muir: Scottish Modernism and the Nation as Anthropological Site.” The Journal of Modern Literature, 28.4. 135-51.
2004 “Joyce, Vico, and National Narrative.” The James Joyce Quarterly, 41.2. 85-96. | |