Manchester Metropolitan University

Faculty Member, English

Professor of English & Director of the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences Research (IHSSR)

IHSSR

About

I have an MA in English and Scandinavian Studies from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in Germany and a PhD in modern Scottish literature from the University of Glasgow. I arrived at MMU in September 2004 from the University of Manchester where I lectured in post-1945 British literature and culture. I have also lectured at Dundee, Swansea, Glamorgan, Chemnitz (Germany) and Liverpool John Moores Universities.

My research interests are in contemporary British Fiction, Scottish literature, Masculinity and Gender Studies, Representations of Nationhood, as well as - more recently - Globalisation Studies and Cosmopolitan Theory.

I am the author of Writing Men (2000) and The Cosmopolitan Novel (2009) and the editor of Posting the Male (2003), The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature (2007) and The Edinburgh Companion to Irvine Welsh (2010). I am currently editing (with Ellie Byrne and Julie Mullaney) a special issue of Comparative American Studies on ‘Texting Obama: Politics, Poetics, Popular Culture’ and another special issue (with Leon Wainwright and Helen Darby) on ‘Cosmopolitanism as Critical and Creative Practice’ for the OU's new Open Arts Journal.

For the spring semester of 2012 I am Lynn Wood Neag Distinguished Visiting Professor of British Literature at the University of Connecticut.

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