Dr James Fountain holds a PhD in English Literature, having been invited to research the first doctorate on the neglected modernist British poet, Joseph Macleod (who was friends with the great writers Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley and Ezra Pound, amongst others). He also holds a PGCE in adult education, and has over 20 years of teaching experience globally, mainly in the UK and the Middle East. He has worked in UK universities and colleges and in the business and military sectors in Saudi Arabia. 

Dr Fountain is the world authority on his PhD subject Joseph Macleod, and has written four academic books in the process of re-releasing and re-introducing his work back into the world, all published by Waterloo Press, including Hidden Sun: The Poetry of Joseph Macleod (2022) and was invited to give a lecture on Macleod to the professors and postgraduate students at Balliol College, Oxford University in 2022, where Macleod began studying alongside Graham Greene exactly a century before. He has had his own poems published in numerous top UK magazines, and two volumes of his poetry, Glaciation (2010) and The Last Stop (2018). He has also written one autobiographical novel, Out of Time (2006).

Dr Fountain is a perceptive, intuitive, but also has proved he is a highly disciplined individual, not only through his strong academic record, publishing many papers and four books, but also having completed the Bahrain and Vienna full marathons in 2023, and the Nottingham 70.3 mile Iron Man triathlon in 2024. He will compete in the Da Nang Iron Man in May. His philosophy is that no one should ever give up, and should keep giving their best effort possible to be as good as they can. Dr Fountain is a sincere educator, who cares a great deal that each of his students achieve their full potential in written and spoken English.

PhD: The Life and Work of Scottish Modernist Poet Joseph Macleod (1903-1984) Supervisor: Professor Michael Schmidt (with assistance from Professor Alan Riach). University of Glasgow.

Books 

• Out of Time, James Fountain (Book Guild: Lewes 2006).
•     Glaciation and Other Poems (Nottingham: Poetry Monthly International, 2010).
•     A Drinan Trilogy, [Three long poems by Joseph Macleod], Edited and Introduced by James Fountain and Andrew Duncan, (Hove: Waterloo Press, 2012). 
•     The Last Stop (Bridgend: original plus press, 2018).
•     Hidden Sun: The Poetry of Joseph Macleod (Hove: Waterloo Press, 2022).
•     Joseph Macleod, The Ecliptic (Edited with an Introduction and Notes by James Fountain), (Hove: Waterloo Press, 2023).
•     Joseph Macleod, Overture to Cambridge: A Satirical Story (Edited with an Introduction and Notes by James Fountain). (Forthcoming with Waterloo Press, 2024).

Articles/Chapters in Refereed Journals/Books

 ‘W.H. Auden’s ‘Spain’, The Explicator 65:3, 171-174, (Washington D. C.: Heldref Publications Ltd., Spring 2007).

‘“The Majesty of American Citizenhood” ’: Manhattan Transfer and Dos Passos’ Anticipation of the Wall Street Crash’, Eds. Eugene de Klerk and Rachel Moffat, Material Worlds, (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007). ISBN-13:978-1847182753

‘“Who am I?” Joseph Macleod’s Transatlantic Connections and the Search for an Identity’, Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, 12.1, April 2008.

‘The Notion of Crusade in British and American Literature of the Spanish Civil War’, The Journal of Transatlantic Studies, Routledge. September 2009.

‘Joseph (Todd Gordon) Macleod’, The National Dictionary of Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2009).

‘The Poetry of the Spanish Civil War’, The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature, ed. by Professor Adam Piette and Dr. Mark Rawlinson (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010). 

‘Joseph Macleod’, The Scottish Poetry Journal, March 2009.

‘The Men of the Rocks: Joseph Macleod and the Gaelic Tradition’, The Scottish Literary Review, (Spring 2011).

‘Langston Hughes and the Spanish Civil War’, The Explicator (Washington D. C.: Heldref Publications Ltd. Spring 2013).

Literary Journalism

‘Remember Joseph Macleod? You Should’ – Guardian Newspaper, Guardian Unlimited, 16 October 2007.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/10/remember_joseph_macleod_you_sh.html

‘English Poetry Means More Than English Poets’ – Guardian Newspaper, Guardian Unlimited, 5 November 2007. http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/11/english_poetry_means_more_than.html 

‘To a Group of Nurses: Modernist Poet Joseph Macleod’, Commentary, The Times Literary Supplement, 12 February 2010.

Book Reviews

Robert E. Gadjdusek, Hemingway: In His Own Country for Amerikastudien: A Quarterly 51:2, German Association for American Studies, Regensburg (Winter 2006).

Eric Cheyfitz, Ed., The Columbia Guide to Indian American Literatures of the United States Since 1945, for The Journal of American Studies, 41:2, 472/473 (August 2007).

Niall Palmer, The Twenties in America: Politics and History for American Studies Online Issue 16, Liverpool John Moores University (September 2007). http://www.americansc.org.uk/Reviews/TwentiesinAmerica.htm

Jackson R. Bryer, Ruth Prigozy, and Milton R. Stern, F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Twenty-First Century, for Amerikastudien: A Quarterly, German Association for American Studies, Regensburg. (Summer 2008)

Nicholas Coles and Janet Zandy, American Working-class Literature: An Anthology, for American Studies Online, Liverpool John Moores University, (Summer 2008). 

Steven Trout, Memorial Fictions: Willa Cather and the First World War – for Amerikastudien: A Quarterly, German Association for American Studies, Regensburg.

Larry David Smith, Writing Dylan: The Songs of a Lonesome Traveler, for the Journal of American Studies.

‘Healing Words: Review of Alan Morrison’s Captive Dragons (2011)’, The London Magazine, http://thelondonmagazine.org/tlm-blog/healing-words-review-by-james-fountain-2/