Tim Hancock

Dr Hancock has taught English at Coleraine since 1998, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. He specialises in poetry and modern literature, coordinating and lecturing on the final year core module of the BA (Hons) English degree ('Twentieth-Century Literature'). Dr Hancock has fulfilled many roles in his time at Ulster, including Course Director for the BA English and Head of Subject for English. He publishes primarily on twentieth century poetry, and has special interests in modernism, John Betjeman and love poetry.   Education: 2000: PGCUT Postgraduate Certificate in University Teaching, Ulster University; 1997: PhD (on Seamus Heaney), University of Cambridge; 1992: MA Modern Literature: Theory & Practice, Leicester University; 1988: BA Combined Arts: English Literature, Ancient History, Classical Studies. Research Fields: Twentieth Century Poetry; published on John Betjeman, Philip Larkin, Sylvia Plath, Mina Loy, T.S. Eliot, Paul Muldoon, Robert Lowell, Seamus Heaney, Ciaran Carson. Forthcoming publications on Larkin, Betjeman and Heaney.