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Jeremy Tambling, BA (York), M.Phil. (Nottingham), Ph.D. (Essex) was Professor of Comparative Literature in Hong Kong University until 2006, and Professor of Literature at Manchester from 2006 till 2013.

His research interests include Dante, who was the subject of his doctoral dissertation, Shakespeare, and the nineteenth century and modernism, but he teaches in all areas of literature and works on critical and cultural theory, psychoanalysis, urban studies, and opera.

He authored over 25 monographs, many articles and chapters in books. His latest book is The Death Penalty in Dickens and Derrida: The Last Sentence of the Law (Bloomsbury 2023). His book on Shakespeare, Fuseli, Blake, and Dickens is forthcoming from Routledge in 2026.

He is a research professor of English at SWPS.