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Associate Professor Sean Pryor

Associate Professor Sean Pryor

Associate Professor

BA (Hons 1) USyd. (2000); MPhil USyd. (2003); PhD Cantab. (2007).

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of the Arts and Media

I am an Associate Professor in English in the School of the Arts and Media. I joined Â鶹Éçmadou in 2008, as the holder of a Faculty Postdoctoral Fellowship. I was appointed a Lecturer in English in 2010 and then awarded a three-year ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2011, for a project on the cultural archetype of the Fall in modernist poetry ($257,000). I was Acting Director (2014) and then Deputy Director (2016) of the Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia at Â鶹Éçmadou, and since 2013 I have been a co-editor of , an open-access journal of modern literature and culture. In 2021,ÌýAffirmations became the official journal of the Australian Modernist Studies Network.
Phone
+61 2 9385 7315
E-mail
s.pryor@unsw.edu.au
Location
213 Robert Webster
  • Books | 2017
    Pryor S, 2017, Poetry, Modernism, and an Imperfect World, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
    Books | 2011
    Pryor S, 2011, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound and the Poetry of Paradise, Original, Ashgate, Farnham,
  • Book Chapters | 2024
    Pryor S, 2024, 'Introduction', in Pryor S (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Poem, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 1 - 16,
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Pryor S, 2024, 'Style', in Pryor S (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Poem, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 196 - 210,
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Pryor S, 2023, 'Modernism and the Hymn', in Hobson S; Radford A (ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism, Myth and Religion, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 233 - 249
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Pryor S, 2022, 'Canto 74', in Readings in the Cantos: Volume 2, Clemson University Press, Clemson, pp. 193 - 212
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Pryor S, 2022, 'Historical Poetics', in Frow J (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 1864 - 1878,
    Book Chapters | 2021
    Pryor S, 2021, 'Poetry and Transition', in Purdon J (ed.), British Literature in Transition, 1900-1920 A New Age?, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 244 - 259,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Pryor S, 2019, 'The Relation Between Poetry and Poems Is Political, Sometimes', in Communism and Poetry: Writing Against Capital, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 37 - 52,
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Pryor S; Pestell A, 2018, 'A to Z of Key Terms', in Maude U; Nixon M (ed.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Modernist Literature, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, pp. 417 - 468,
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Pryor S, 2018, 'Canto 17', in Parker R (ed.), Readings in the Cantos, Clemson University Press, pp. 155 - 164,
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Pryor SB, 2017, 'Body and Soul: Modernism, Metaphysics, Rhyme', in Sounding Modernism Rhythm and Sonic Mediation in Modern Literature and Film, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 149 - 163
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Pryor SB, 2016, 'Modernist Measure: Poetry and Calculation', in Pryor SB; Trotter D (ed.), Writing, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies, edn. Technographies, Open Humanities Press, London, pp. 166 - 177,
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Pryor SB, 2015, 'Some Thoughts on Refrigeration [on Ezra Pound and Keston Sutherland]', in Parker R (ed.), News from Afar: Ezra Pound and Some Contemporary British Poetries, Shearsman Books, pp. 273 - 280,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Pryor S, 2014, 'Making Evil, with Flann O'Brien', in Murphet ; McDonald ; Morrell (ed.), Flann O'Brien and Modernism, edn. 1st, Bloomsbury, London, UK, pp. 11 - 26,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Pryor SB, 2014, 'Late W. B. Yeats', in Oxford Handbooks Online, Oxford University Press,
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Pryor S, 2013, 'The Trust and the Mistrust: Ezra Pound in Italy', in Attridge J; Rosenquist R (ed.), Incredible Modernism: Literature, Trust and Deception, edn. 2013, Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 163 - 179,
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Pryor S, 2012, 'McCarthy's rhythm', in Murphet J; Steven M (ed.), Styles of Extinction: Cormac McCarthy's The Road, edn. Original, Continuum, New York, pp. 27 - 44
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Pryor S, 2010, 'Anne Stevenson and the Poetry of Place', in Leighton A (ed.), Voyages Over Voices: Critical Essays on Anne Stevenson, edn. Original, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, pp. 125 - 150
    Book Chapters | 2007
    Pryor S, 2007, 'Iconicity and the Divine in the Fin de Siècle Poetry of W. B. Yeats', in Tabakowska E; Ljungberg C; Fischer O (ed.), Insistent Images (Iconicity in Language and Literature), edn. Original, John Benjamins Publishing Co, Amsterdam, pp. 91 - 102
    Book Chapters | 2007
    Pryor S, 2007, '‘Reported to me from Sydney, Australia’: Reading Eliot Down Under and in the Mother Country', in Däumer E; Bagchee S (ed.), The International Reception of T. S. Eliot, edn. Original, Continuum, London, pp. 284 - 291
  • Edited Books | 2024
    Pryor S, (ed.), 2024, The Cambridge Companion to the Poem, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
    Edited Books | 2022
    Pryor S; Frow J; Byron M; Goulimari P; Rak J, (eds.), 2022, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory, Oxford University Press, Oxford,
    Edited Books | 2016
    Pryor SB; Trotter D, (ed.), 2016, Writing, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies, Open Humanities Press, London,
  • Journal articles | 2025
    Pryor S, 2025, 'Modernism's Book of Scraps: Worldmaking and the Anthology as Medium in the Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers', English Studies, pp. 1 - 20,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Pryor S, 2021, 'Experiences Differ: A Reflection on Teaching Literary Studies', Australian Humanities Review, pp. 54 - 58,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Pryor S, 2021, 'Who Bought Paris? Hope Mirrlees, the Hogarth Press, and the Circulation of Modernist Poetry', ELH, 88, pp. 1055 - 1082,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Pryor S, 2020, 'The Episode on the Staircase: Poetry, Energy, Space', Critical Quarterly, 61, pp. 91 - 99,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Etherington B; Pryor S, 2019, 'Historical poetics and the problem of exemplarity', Critical Quarterly, 61, pp. 3 - 17,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Pryor S, 2019, 'A poetics of occasion in Hope Mirrlees's Paris', Critical Quarterly, 61, pp. 37 - 53,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Pryor S, 2018, 'So Slow: Canto CVI', Glossator, 10, pp. 287 - 307,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Pryor S, 2018, 'Yeats and Futurity', Essays in Criticism, 68, pp. 327 - 348,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Pryor SB, 2016, 'Inhuman Words: Philology, Modernism, Poetry', Modernism/Modernity, 23, pp. 555 - 571,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Pryor SB, 2015, 'Stevenson among the Balladeers', Victorian Studies, 57, pp. 33 - 56,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Pryor S, 2013, 'Ezra Pound's Adams Cantos', MODERNISM-MODERNITY, 20, pp. 615 - 617,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Pryor SB, 2013, 'Satyriast's Beatitudes: John Rodker's Hymns', Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 55, pp. 473 - 492,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Pryor S, 2012, 'Poetry and Decision: F. T. Prince in September 1938', Review of English Studies, 63, pp. 818 - 840,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Pryor S, 2011, 'Happiness and Happening in Harmonium', Wallace Stevens Journal, 35, pp. 174 - 187,
    Journal articles | 2010
    Pryor S, 2010, '"How Will You Know?": Paradise, Painting, and the Writing of Ezra Pound's Canto 3', PAIDEUMA - Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry, 37, pp. 267 - 292
    Journal articles | 2010
    Pryor S, 2010, 'Particularly Dangerous Feats: The Difficult Reader of the Difficult Late Cantos', PAIDEUMA - Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry, 36, pp. 27 - 45
    Journal articles | 2002
    Pryor S, 2002, 'Sex drives: Fantasies of fascism in literary modernism', MODERNISM-MODERNITY, 9, pp. 703 - 704,
  • Other | 2020
    Pryor S, 2020, "Some Questions about the Use of Diction in Poetry", ,
    Other | 2020
    Pryor S, 2020, Review of Oliver Tearle, The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem, ,

I am co-editor of .

I peer-review work for numerous presses (including Cambridge University Press, Bloomsbury, and Open Humanities Press) and journals (including Modernism/modernity,ÌýPaideuma,ÌýIrish Studies Review, and Religion and Literature).

My Teaching

I teach ARTS2033 Poetry and Poetics and ARTS2034 Shakespearean Drama. Occasionally I contribute lectures to, or take seminars in, other courses in English.

PhD Supervisions

Mariya Nikolova, "How Whiteness Claimed the Future. The Always New Vs. the Always Now in US-American Literature" (2020)

Tanya Thaweeskulchai, "Expressing Bodily Experience: Virginia Woolf's Mrs DallowayÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýThe Waves" (2018), together with the poetry collections A Salivating Monstrous Plant (Cordite, 2017) and Ashes and Fire in the House of PortraitsÌý(2018).

Christopher Oakey, "Philosophical Poetry in a Time of Crisis: Reading Post-War American Poetry in Relation to Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy" (2017)

Masters by Research Supervisions

Kristin Grogan, "Strange Rhythms: Experimental Lyric Poetry in Late Modernism" (2014)

Christopher Oakey, "Vision, Affect and Knowledge in the Poetry of Hilda Doolittle and William Carlos Williams" (2012)