Modern and Contemporary

The Modern and Contemporary Research Group focuses on literature and culture from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first. The Group's wide-ranging expertise runs from the fin de siècle to contemporary poetry, with particular strengths in the areas of Modernism, including the Cambridge University Press edition of Virginia Woolf's fiction; women's writing and gender studies; crime fiction; contemporary critical theory; British and American theatre; science fiction; literature of the First and Second World Wars; British cinema and music. The Group is home to a thriving postgraduate community, with staff and students involved in the organisation of conferences both within the university and in collaboration with other institutions. Recent events include the Crime Fiction Masterclass (2007), the interdisciplinary 'Sexualities In and Out of Time' conference (2008), and conferences dedicated to the work of David Mitchell and T. S. Eliot (both 2009).

Staff

Mrs Nora Bartlett, Dr Ian Blyth, Professor Robert Crawford, Dr Sarah Dillon, Dr Michael Herbert, Dr Chris Jones, Dr Christopher MacLachlan, Phillip Mallett, Dr Philip Parry, Professor Gill Plain, Professor Susan Sellers, Dr Emma Sutton

Postgraduates

Christina Andrews, Cecily Davey, Jess De Santa, Donald Gibson, Lisa Griffin, Megan Hoffman, Garry MacKenzie, Anna McFarlane, Vicky Paine, John Pazdziora, Joshua Richards, Evan Smith, Verita Sriratana, Gail Toms, Tsung-Han Tsai, Anna Watson