Mengham Roderick / U.K.

Rod Mengham is Reader in Modern English Literature at the Univeristy of Cambridge, and Curator of Works of Art at Jesus College, where he is responsible for a biennial exhibition of contemporary sculpture. He is the author and editor of books on nineteenth and twentieth century fiction, twentieth century poetry, violence and avant-garde art, and language and cultural history. He is also editor of the Equipage series of poetry pamphlets, and co-editor and co-translator of 'Altered State: the New Polish Poetry'. His own poems have been published under the titles 'Unsung: New and Selected Poems'(Salt, 2001) and 'Parleys and Skirmishes' [poems, with photographs by Marc Atkins] (Ars Cameralis, 2007). In the last fifteen years, he has published numerous art critical essays and has also worked as a freelance curator (most recent exhibition: Jake and Dinos Chapman, 'In the Realm of the Senseless', Katowice, Poland, November 2010-January 2011)