Dr Oliver Tearle

  • University Teacher in English
  • Specialism: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature

Oliver Tearle became Lecturer in English in 2017 as part of Loughborough University’s Excellence 100 campaign. His research is principally in literature of the period 1880-1930, focusing especially on twentieth-century poetry, the ghost story, and modernism. His third monograph, on modernist poetry and the Great War, was published in 2019.

In addition to his published academic research, Tearle is a prolific blogger whose literary blog receives over 15 million views every year.

Between 2018 and 2021 he was Programme Director for English at Loughborough.