David Amigoni studied English and history at University College Cardiff, followed by an MA in Victorian studies at Keele University. He obtained his PhD, which he later published as Victorian Biography in 1993, from Liverpool Polytechnic. He has taught at Aberystwyth University and the University of Sunderland.

He took up a lectureship at Keele University in 1995 and was promoted to senior lecturer in 2000, Personal Chair in Victorian Literature in 2005, and then Pro Vice-Chancellor in 2015. He was elected Fellow of the English Association in 2008. He researches, broadly, the dynamic relationship between literature and intellectual culture in the nineteenth century, on which he has published extensively, exploring in particular the relationship between evolutionary science and literature in the Victorian period. He is a member of AHRC’s Peer Review College and UKRI’s Future Leaders Fellowship Peer Review Panel.

David is writing a monograph on social and biological inheritance in intellectual families, contributing, across three generations, to scientific and literary culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In 2019 David led the development of Keele Deal | Culture, which further extends the University’s civic and public engagement missions.

David is an alumnus of the 2018 Entrepreneurial Leaders Programme