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Dr Nick Shepley
Email: n.shepley@ucl.ac.uk
External phone: 020 7679 3143
Internal phone: 33143
Education and Experience
Nick Shepley studied English at Keble College, Oxford, where he received his BA. He went on to do a Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) and spent two years teaching in Ondangwa, Namibia with Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO). Nick received his MA (2005) and PhD (2010) from UCL, where he wrote his thesis on obliquity in the novels of Henry Green. He has been teaching in the English department ever since.
Research
Nick is currently at work on two research projects: he is finishing an introduction to the novels of Henry Green (1905-1973) for Oxford University Press and he has begun a history of the one-day novel, which explores the form’s engagement with innovative literary techniques and representations of the urban.
Nick is also the organiser of “One Day in the City” (www.ucl.ac.uk/onedayinthecity): an annual celebration of Literature at UCL. Man Booker Prizes sponsored our 2012 event, which invited the general public to listen to and share thoughts with authors, poets, and academics in all things London. Amongst our contributors were the novelists A.S. Byatt and Alan Hollinghurst; the poets Daljit Nagra, Mark Ford, and Alan Jenkins; the filmmaker Chris Petit; and the iconic London voices of Iain Sinclair and Will Self.
Nick also co-curated two exhibitions entitled “One Day in the City” in UCL Art Museum (June 15 – December 14, 2012) and South Cloisters, which presented various everyday experiences of life in London over the centuries.
