About Orlando Reade
Orlando Reade is Assistant Professor (Teaching and Research) in English (Writing & Literature) at Northeastern University London. His teaching specialisms include Academic Writing, Creative Writing, and English Literature. He studied English at St. John’s College, Cambridge, and received his PhD from Princeton University. He also writes creative non-fiction and art criticism.
Qualifications:
PhD English Literature (Princeton University)
MA Renaissance Studies (University of London)
BA English Literature (University of Cambridge)
Orlando Reade's Research
Dr Reade’s research looks at the entanglement of culture and politics. His PhD research looked at the poetry written during the English Civil War (1640-1660), and recently he has become interested in the use of poetry in the movement to abolish slavery in nineteenth-century England and America, as well as the role of art in the contemporary movement to abolish prisons.
His first book, What in Me is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost, is forthcoming from Jonathan Cape in October 2024. It looks at twelve readers of John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost, including Thomas Jefferson, George Eliot, Hannah Arendt, and Malcolm X. He has also written an introduction for a new Vintage Classics edition of Paradise Lost, also forthcoming in October 2024.
Dr Reade is also an essayist and art critic. His writings on art and literature have appeared in The Guardian, The White Review, Tank, and Frieze. In 2020, Earthbound Press published his essay Municipal Dusk as a pamphlet. He served as a contributing editor to The White Review and is a founding editor of Effects, a journal of contemporary art and aesthetics.
Academic Publications:
‘Wordsworth’s Mischief: Revisiting the Henry Vaughan Plagiarism Scandal’ (under review)
‘On Poetic Radiance: An Exchange of Poems Between Katherine Philips and Henry Vaughan’, in Marcher Metaphysicals, edited by Joseph Sterrett and Helen Wilcox (forthcoming, 2024)
‘‘Fortune is a Mistresse’: Figures of Fortune in English Renaissance Poetry’, in Fate and Fortune in the Renaissance, edited by Ovanes Akoyapan (Brill, 2021)
Other Recent Publications:
‘Greta Gerwig’s Paradise Lost’, Literary Hub (2023)
‘Ode to Olaudah Equiano’, Chapter Gallery, Cardiff (2022)
‘Vampire Minimalism: An Aesthetic of Gentrification’, Effects online (2022)
Municipal Dusk (Earthbound Press, 2020)
‘The Art of the Migration Crisis’, Effects, no. 1 (2018)
Interview: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, The White Review, no. 13 (2015)
‘Books: #Accelerate’, Frieze, no. 168 (2014)
‘City Psychosis: Teju Cole’s city novels’, Tank, vol. 8 (2014)
‘On Queensway Computer Market’, The White Review, no. 8 (2013)
‘Moroccan Rock Stars’, The Guardian (25 October, 2012)
Orlando Reade's Teaching
At Northeastern University London, Dr Reade teaches Academic Writing, Creative Writing, and English. In the past, he has taught at Princeton University, the NJ-STEP prison education program, and the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.