Stephen Knight

Biography

Born in the UK, Stephen Knight came to Australia when he was appointed Teaching Fellow at the University of Sydney in 1963, then lecturer in English the following the year. He went on to hold senior positions at the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne, before returning to England in 1992 to take up a chair at De Montford University, Leicester. In 2011 he left his post as Distinguished Research Professor at Cardiff University and moved to the University of Melbourne. As well as numerous scholarly works in the area of medieval English literature, Knight’s long held interest in crime fiction led him to him editing several anthologies of Australian crime stories.