Mike Rose-Steel
Department: English
Discipline: English
Project Summary
I have recently completed my PhD entitled "Wittgenstein and Poetry: Negotiations of the Inexpressible". In it I have argued for a practice-oriented reading of Wittgenstein that takes into account some of the supposedly marginal elements of his writing, such as aesthetics, ethics, style and religion. The reading is fleshed out through comparison with the concerns and techniques of poetry, including case-studies of Wallace Stevens, Jorie Graham, John Burnside and Kei Miller.
My research interests include interdisciplinary approaches to poetry, philosophy and critical theory, modernist literature and culture, creative writing pedagogy, the inexpressible and the ineffable in literature, theology and grammar, animal rights, translation studies and the technologies of thought.
Supervisory Team
My PhD supervisors have been Profs. Regenia Gagnier and Andry Brown at Exeter. My thesis was examined by Prof. Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway) and Dr John Bolin (Exeter).
Wider Research Interests
Publications (Academic)
Dec 2016 ‘I will draw a map of what you never see’: Cartographic metaphor in Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations.’ Literary Studies and the Philosophy of Literature: New Interdisciplinary Directions. eds. Philip Gaydon and Andrea Selleri. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.
Jan 2016 ‘The Wittgenstein Vector’ Kadar Koli vol. 10. Toronto: eth press.
Dec 2015 ‘Of Metaphors and Maps: Cartographic thinking and the poetry of Kei Miller.’ Politics of Place, Green Connections Edition. University of Exeter.
Apr 2015 ‘Tweeting the Rose: Poetic Constraints’, Roman de la Rose Digital Library, Johns Hopkins University.
Aug 2014 ‘The Mysterious and the Marginal: The Incubation of Poetry Within and About the Occult Writing of Sir John Grantner’, The Dovetail 1stIssue, Bangor University.
Reviews
Feb 2017 ‘Review: Contextual Metaphilosophy: The Case of Wittgenstein by Dimitris Gakis’ British Wittgenstein Society. (forthcoming)
July 2015 ‘Review: Jack Clemo, Selected Poems’, ed. Luke Thompson. Ambit Magazine.
Oct 2015 ‘Review: A Fright of Jays, by Marc Woodward’, Ink, Sweat and Tears Magazine.
Papers (Academic)
June 2015 ‘Poetry and the spirit of philosophy: towards renewal and failure.’ Wittgenstein and Interreligious Communications, Woolfe Institute, Cambridge.
Mar 2014 ‘Towards a Grammar of Ineffability.’ 21st-Century Theories of Literature, University of Warwick.
May 2014 ‘Writing at the limits of the wor(l)d: the poetry of Jorie Graham.’ Tradition, Technology and Transition, University of Exeter.
Nov 2013 ‘Pseudo-Dionysius and The Grammar of the Inexpressible.’ Lecture to the Philosophy Society, University of Exeter.
May 2013 ‘Conflictive Metaphors: The ups and downs of ineffability.’ Identity and Place, University of Exeter.
May 2012 ‘Dangerous Poetry.’ College of Humanities Postgraduate Research Conference, University of Exeter.
Feb 2002 ‘On the philosophical Logic of Jokes.’ Warwick Philosophy Department Annual Conference, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor.
Poetry and Installations
Sept 2016 The Image is Itself
Exhibition and reading at Hinsely Hall, Leeds.
Aug 2016 Golden Age Dutch Poetry in Translation
Poetry pamphlet and public lectures, with Esther van Raamsdonk.
Aug 2015 Lambent Dreams
With Jim Webster, poetry pamphlet, Exeter: Spindlebox Press.
June 2015 Wor(l)ds in Collision
Art Exhibition, University of Exeter. Text-art with Wittgensteinian themes, co-curator with Jaime Robles.
Apr 2015 Paraphernalium
Poetry pamphlet, with Isabelle Galleymore and Wai Hsien-Wan.Exeter: Spindlebox Press.
Jan 2014 &
June 2015 The Wittgenstein Vector
An Exegesis project installation. Design by Mike Rose-Steel and Jaime Robles.
June 2014 The Long Goodbye
An Exegesis project. Coordination by SMSteele.
May 2014 The Wittgenstein Vector
An Exegesis project. Poetry pamphlet, with SMSteele and Jaime Robles
Mar 2014 Drawing Over is Drawing Under
Poetry pamphlet, with Isabelle Galleymore and Wai Hsien-Wan. Exeter: Spindlebox Press.
Mar 2014 On the Wall
Film made for presentation at 21st-Century Theories of Literature, University of Warwick.
Feb 2013 51 Shades of Black and Blue
Poetry pamphlet and cabaret, with SMSteele and Jaime Robles.
Apr 2012 Wall of Miracles
An Exegesis project installation. Design by Jaime Robles
Sept 2006 New Poets vol.3
Poetry Pamphlet. Coventry: Heaventree Press.
Individual poems have appeared in The Clearing, The Broadsheet, Kadar Koli and elsewhere.