Rod Mengham

Rod Mengham is Reader in Modern English Literature at the University of Cambridge, where he is also Curator of Works of Art at Jesus College. He is the author of books on Charles Dickens, Emily Brontë and Henry Green, as well as of The Descent of Language (1993). He has edited collections of essays on contemporary fiction, violence and avant-garde art, and the fiction of the 1940s. He has written on art for various magazines, especially tate, and composes the catalogues for the biennial 'Sculpture in the Close' exhibition, at Jesus College, Cambridge. He is also the editor of the Equipage series of poetry pamphlets and co-organizer of the Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry; his own poems have been published under the title Unsung: New and Selected Poems (Folio / Salt, 1996; 2nd Edition 2001).

(2003)