Simon John Ryle
Title: Full Professor
Tuesday 14.45-15.45
undergraduate
graduate
Simon Ryle is Professor of Literature at the Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split. He teaches poetry, drama, film, creative writing, and literary theory in courses on early modernity, poetic cinema, ecocriticism, and literary underworlds. In 2024, he held a Fulbright Long-term Research Fellowship at The Graduate Center, CUNY. He wrote his PhD at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Stephen Heath. His books are: Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire: Adaptation and Other Futures of Shakespeare's Language (2014), and Xenoflesh: Vegan Poetics and Capitalocene Meat (2026). He has published many academic essays, and edited four collections of essays, including an edition of The Journal for Cultural Research on Deleuze and Shakespeare. His research explores the relation of poetics, ethics and embodiment, in particular concerning questions of desire, alterity, the commodification of life, and technologies of war in literature, cinema and theory.