Dr George Yeats

Dr George Yeats is a Senior Lecturer at Regent’s University London where he delivers a wide range of Humanities and Literature courses. He originally qualified at, and began his career within, the University of Cambridge, where he has had teaching positions at Girton, Newnham and Pembroke Colleges. His specialist subjects include Shakespearean Drama and London’s Literature. 

Over his two decades of instructional experience, he has worked with an enormously varied international community of students and taught within both the UK single honours system and in Liberal Arts/Study Abroad contexts. 

Having authored a PhD on Hamlet and the Victorians, he has gone on to publish articles examining the nineteenth-century reception of Shakespeare (in Victorian Literature and Culture) and Dickens’s Little Dorrit (in Nineteenth-Century Literature). He has peer reviewed for Victorian Literature and Culture and the Shakespeare Bulletin.

Qualifications

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2016
• PhD, English Literature, University of Cambridge, 2007
• MPhil, Anglo-Irish Literature, Trinity College, Dublin, 2002
• BA Hons, English Literature, King's College, Cambridge, 2001

Relevant Past Employment

• 2010-11: Director of Second Year English and Special Supervisor in English, Newnham College, Cambridge
• 2008-09: Academic Associate of Pembroke College, Cambridge
• 2007-08: Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies for Second Year English, Girton College, Cambridge

Articles

Yeats, G., 'Dirty Air': Little Dorrit's Atmosphere, in Nineteenth-Century Literature, 66.3, pp. 328–354, 2011

Yeats, G. Shakespeare's Victorian Legacy: Text as Monument and Emendation as Desecration, in Victorian Literature and Culture, 40.2, pp. 469-486, 20212

Conference Papers Given

• Murdering Shakespeare: Hamlet and its Victorian parodists - Affiliates Conference, Regent’s University London, 2016
• Ford’s Undoing: The Art of Effacement in Some Do Not… – ‘Aftermath’, King’s College, London. 2015
• Ways of Seeing the Western Front: Some Aspects of Ford's War Prose – ‘Legacies of the First World War’, Regent’s University London, 2014
• Dickens' local influences – ‘Dickens and Style', University of Oxford, 2012.

• Shakespeare
• Dickens
• London's Literature
• Modernism

• Shakespeare
• Dickens

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)

Literature-specific classes at Regent's University London:

• First World War Literature
• From Stage to Screen: Shakespeare the Movie
• Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
• Introduction to Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature
• Introduction to Victorian and Modern Literature
• Literary London
• Literature, Gender and Sexuality, 1900 - present
• Literature and Revolution, 1750-1825
• The Making of the Modern Imagination, Literature 1750-1950
• Shakespearean Comedy and History
• Shakespearean Tragedy and Tragi-Comedy
• US Literature: Pre-civil War

Other classes at Regent's University London:

• Cultural Understanding
• The History of Ideas: from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
• The History of Ideas: from the Enlightenment to Modernity
• Introduction to the Humanities
• London Perspectives: The culture of the British capital