Nicholas Michael Groom FRSA was born on 1966 and is Professor of English Literature at the University of Macau, an author on subjects ranging from the history of the Union Jack, to Thomas Chatterton, has edited several books and regularly appears on television, radio and at literary festivals as an authority on English Literature, seasonal customs, JR R Tolkien, the 'Gothic' and 'British' and 'English' identities.
12 Facts About Nick Groom
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Nick Groom was born in 1966 and educated at Bedford Modern School and Hertford College, Oxford where he graduated with first class honours in 1988.
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Nick Groom was awarded a DPhil in 1994 with his doctoral thesis, Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Its Context, Presentation, and Reception.
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Nick Groom became a lecturer in English at the University of Exeter in 1994, a Senior Lecturer in Post-Medieval Literature at the University of Bristol in 2000 and Reader in English Literature at the University of Bristol in 2003.
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In 2007 Nick Groom was made Professor of English Literature at the University of Exeter and established the Exeter Centre for Literatures of Identity, Place and Sustainability in 2008.
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Nick Groom is on the management board of the Atlantic Archipelagos Research Consortium and the Wellcome Centre for the Cultures and Environments of Health.
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Nick Groom used to teach what was then the only undergraduate course in Britain on the works of JR R Tolkien.
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Nick Groom's research has 'largely focussed on three areas; cultural formation and authenticity, including attribution studies ; national identity ; and historicist popular culture and folklore '.
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Nick Groom wrote an essay on The Young Ones for The Cassell Book of Great British Comedy and in 2008 he nominated Rik Mayall for an Honorary Degree at the University of Exeter.
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Nick Groom is a critically acclaimed author, has edited several books including four Gothic novels for Oxford University Press and a twelve volume edition of The Plays of William Shakespeare, has contributed over seventy chapters and articles to edited collections and academic journals and has regularly reviewed books for The Financial Times, Times Higher Education and The Independent.
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Nick Groom is currently a contributor to The Times Literary Supplement.
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Nick Groom has a flock of sheep and is actively involved in local arts and music.