Professor Neil Sammells

 Emeritus Professor 

Personal statement

Neil Sammells is formerly the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Provost) at Bath Spa University and Professor of English and Irish Literature, with cross-institutional responsibility for research, learning and teaching, quality assurance, curriculum development, marketing and communications.

Formerly Dean of Humanities and Head of English at BSU, he has research interests in modern drama and Irish writing, with a particular interest in Oscar Wilde. He is the author of Tom Stoppard: the Artist as Critic; (Macmillan, 1988) and Wilde Style: The Plays and Prose of Oscar Wilde; (Longman, 2000). He is also the co-editor (with Paul Hyland) of books on Irish writing and writing and censorship and is founding editor of Irish Studies Review.

Professor Sammells was a member of the executive council of the British Association for Irish Studies for many years and, in 2000, was convenor of the annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures.

In addition to his scholarly publications, Professor Sammells is an experienced broadcaster who has appeared on a number of radio arts programmes such as Nightwaves, Kaleidoscope and In Our Time.

He has been an institutional auditor for the Quality Assurance Agency and a member of the Higher Education Academy's
Advisory Panel for the award of National Teaching Fellowships.

Academic qualifications

• BA(Hons) Oxford
• PhD London

Recent professional updating

• Leadership Foundation for HE, Top Management Programme
• Entrepreneurial Universities Leaders Programme

Professional memberships

• Member British Association for Irish Studies
• Member International Association for Study Of Irish Literatures

Other external roles

• External auditor for QAA
• External auditor for SKVC

Teaching Specialism

• 19th and Twentieth Century English and Irish Literature and Drama; specifically Tom Stoppard, Oscar Wilde