Dr Peter Groves - Researcher Profile

Biography

I was educated in the UK at the universities of Exeter and Cambridge, where I wrote my Ph.D on Shakespeare’s metrics. I came to Monash in 1980 (for a two-year appointment!) and now teach poetry, Shakespeare and other Renaissance English literature in the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies. My publications on metre include a theoretical monograph (Strange Music: The Metre of the English Heroic Line, ELS Monograph Series 74, Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria, 1998), and a series of articles on poets from Chaucer to Philip Larkin; I have also published (with Dr Geoffrey Hiller) an edition of Samuel Daniel’s poetry and an annotated anthology of the seventeenth-century Theophrastan character. I am currently working on the theory of verse-movement.

Qualifications

PH D

Institution: Cambridge University

Year awarded: 1979

ENGLISH HONOURS (CLASS 1)

Institution: Exeter University

Year awarded: 1975

Publications

Books

Groves, P.L., Hiller, G., 2008, Character Books of the English Renaissance: A Selection, Pegasus Press, Fairview NC USA.

Hiller, G., Groves, P.L., 1998, Samuel Daniel: Selected Poetry and A Defense of Rhyme, Pegasus Press, Uni of Nth Carolina at Asheville Nth Carolia USA.

Groves, P.L., 1998, Strange Music: The Metre of the English Heroic Line, English Literary Studies (University of Victoria), Victoria BC Canada.

Book Chapters

Groves, P., 2012, Meter, in A Companion to Poetic Genre, eds Erik Martiny, John Wiley & Sons, United Kingdom, pp. 34-52.

Groves, P., 2011, Shakespeare's secret influence: Metrical gaps and the Jacobean dramatists, in Current Trends in Metrical Analysis, eds Christoph Kuper, Peter Lang, Frankfurt, Germany, pp. 143-150.

Groves, P., 2011, Shakespeare's 'short' pentameters and the rhythms of dramatic verse, in Stylistics and Shakespeare's Language, eds Mireille Ravassat and Jonathan Culpeper, Continuum International, London, UK, pp. 119-138.

Groves, P.L., 2002, "Knocking a verse on the head": towards a performance grammar of English verse, in Meter, Rhythm and Performance, eds Christoph Kuper, Peter Lang, Frankfurt Germany, pp. 215-228.

Journal Articles

Groves, P., 2011, "Opening" the pentameter: Hopkins's metrical experimentation, Hopkins Quartely [P], vol 38, issue 1-2, The International Hopkins Association, USA, pp. 93-110.

Groves, P.L., 2007, Shakespeare's Pentameter and the End of Editing, Shakespeare, vol 3, issue 2, Routledge, London UK, pp. 126-142.

Groves, P.L., 2005, Finding his feet: Wyatt and the founding of English pentameter, Versification, vol 4, Oregon State University, Oregon, pp. 1-27.

Groves, P.L., 2001, "What music lies in the cold print" : Larkin's experimental metric, Style, vol 35, issue 4, Northern Illinois University, Illinois USA, pp. 703-723.

Groves, P.L., 2000, Water from the Well: The Reception of Chaucer's Metric, Parergon, vol 17 no 2, Aust. & N.Z. Assoc. for Medieval & Early Mod. Stud, Perth WA Australia, pp. 51-73.

Groves, P.L., 1999, The Chomsky of Grubstreet: Edward Bysshe and the Triumph of Classroom Metrics, Versification: An Electronic Journal of Literary Prosodv, vol 3, may 1999, University of Shizuoka, Japan, http://sizcol.u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp/versif/Currlss., pp. 1-12.

Groves, P.L., 1998, Review of Sharon Achinstein, Milton and the Revolutionary Reader, The European Legacy: Towards New Paradigms, vol 2 no 6, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, Cambridge Mass USA, pp. 1041-1042.

Groves, P.L., 1998, Review of the World on Paper by David Olson, The European Legacy: Towards New Paradigms, vol 2 no 6, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, Cambridge Mass USA, pp. 1040-1041.

Other

Groves, P.L., Van De Wei, F., 1999, Snow and Van de Wei, Writer and Performer, 1 hour 20 min, 31 September, Alice Springs NT Australia.

Groves, P.L., 1998, Distinctive Features, Encyclopedia of Semiotics, vol reference work, issue 1, Oxford University Press (New York), New York NY USA, pp. 199-201.

Groves, P.L., 1998, Language Change, Encyclopedia of Semiotics, vol encyclopedia, issue 1, Oxford University Press (New York), New York NY USA, pp. 350-354.

Groves, P.L., 1998, Linearity, Encyclopedia of Semiotics, vol reference work, issue 1, Oxfod University Press (New York), New York NY USA, pp. 366-368.

Groves, P.L., 1998, Markedness, Encyclopedia of Semiotics, vol reference work, issue 1, Oxford University Press (New York), New York NY USA, pp. 385-387.

Groves, P.L., 1998, Pertinence, Encyclopedia of Semiotics, vol reference work, issue 1, Oxford University Press (New York), New York NY USA, pp. 479-481.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

"The lake a lilac cube": poetic cubism in John Ashbery's experimental poetry.

Supervisors:

Hawke, J (Main), Groves, P (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Supervisors:

Dilnot, A (Main), Groves, P (Associate), Foster, K (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

FIRE AND AIR: Shakespeare and the phenomenology of song.

Supervisors:

Groves, P (Main), Collins, S (Associate), Watt, P (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Irony and human nature in Chaucer and Dante.

Supervisors:

Groves, P (Main), Lampugnani, R (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The Blue Book/Borges' tera to logical reader.

Supervisors:

Groves, P (Joint), Hawke, J (Joint-co).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The Emergent Author: Investigating the Formation and Impact of the Reader's Authorial Image.

Supervisors:

Groves, P (Main), Worth, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The Pythagorean Shakespeare.

Supervisors:

Groves, P (Main), Dilnot, A (Associate), Worth, C (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Beal, M.

Program of Study:

THE SERPENT IN THE POETRY AND SERMONS OF JOHN DONNE. (Masters) 2003.

Supervisors:

Groves, P (Main), Ayres, P (Associate).

Student:

Burrows, G.

Program of Study:

Inscriptive Materiality and Vocal Privilege in Classical Roman Poetic Production. (Masters) 2009.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main), Groves, P (Associate).

Student:

Malalasekara, D.

Program of Study:

Difficulties Encountered in Translating Postcolonial Writing - A study of Pragmatic Aspects, with Reference to the Translation of Fiction from Sinhala to English. (Masters) 2009.

Supervisors:

Groves, P (Main), Lokuge, C (Associate).

Student:

Pargetter, D.

Program of Study:

THE DEVIL'S BATH. A Study of Shakespeare's Psychopaths. (Masters) 2005.

Supervisors:

Ayres, P (Main), Groves, P (Associate).

Student:

Salus, V.

Program of Study:

"HER RARE CHASTITEE": BELPHOEBE'S REPRESENTATION IN THE FAERIE QUEENE. (PHD) 2001.

Supervisors:

Groves, P (Main), Hiller, G (Associate).