David Fallon

David Fallon is a scholar of English literature whose work centers on Romanticism, the eighteenth century, and the political ideas that shaped literary culture. He joined the English team at the University of Sunderland in 2012 after serving as a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, and he has also taught at Oxford, Warwick, and Oxford Brookes.

His research has a clear, lively focus: the meeting point between literature, history, and political thought. He co-edited Romanticism and Revolution: A Reader with Jon Mee, a collection built around the debates sparked by the French Revolution, and later wrote Blake, Myth, and Enlightenment: The Politics of Apotheosis, a study of William Blake’s poetry and art.

Alongside his books, Fallon has published research on subjects including Blake and the world of eighteenth-century and Romantic-era booksellers. Taken together, his work offers readers a thoughtful guide to the ideas, arguments, and imaginative energy behind one of literature’s most fascinating periods.