Tim Armstrong’s research interests include modernism and modernity, American literature and culture, literature and technology, and the poetry of Thomas Hardy. His publications include The Logic of Slavery: Debt, Technology and Pain in American Literature (Cambridge, 2012), Modernism, Technology and the Body: A Cultural Study (Cambridge, 1998) and Modernism: A Cultural History (Polity, 2005), as well as various edited collections. He has edited Poems of Thomas Hardy (Longman, 1993) and published a study of Hardy’s poetry, Haunted Hardy: Poetry, History, Memory (Palgrave, 2000). He is general editor of the EUP series, Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture, and is currently working on a project on modernist localism and deconstruction, Micromodernism.
Michael Bell is Fellow of the British Academy, Professor Emeritus in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, and Associate Fellow of the Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts. He has written mainly on literary and philosophical themes from the European Enlightenment to modernity. His book-length publications include Primitivism (1973), The Sentiment of Reality: Truth of Feeling in the European Novel (1983), F. R. Leavis (1988), D. H. Lawrence: Language and Being (1992), Gabriel García Márquez: Solitude and Solidarity (1994), Literature, Modernism and Myth: Belief and Responsibility in the Twentieth Century (1997), Sentimentalism, Ethics and the Culture of Feeling (2001), Open Secrets: Literature, Education and Authority from J-J. Rousseau to J. M. Coetzee (Oxford, 2007) and The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists (ed.) (Cambridge, 2012).
Faith Binckes is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Bath Spa University. She is the author of Modernism, Magazines, and the British Avant-Garde: Reading Rhythm (Oxford, 2010), articles on periodical culture, and on modernist authors such as Katherine Mansfield and Wyndham Lewis. Her monograph on the Irish writer Hannah Lynch, written with Dr Kathryn Laing, is in preparation. She is currently editing, with Dr Carey Snyder, a volume on women, periodicals and the modernist period. She will edit the volume of Wyndham Lewis’s post-1930 art writing for the OUP edition of Lewis’s Collected Works.
Conor Carville is Associate Professor of English at Reading University. His book on Irish cultural theory, The Ends of Ireland: Criticism, History, Subjectivity, was published by Manchester University Press in 2012. Samuel Beckett and the Visual was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. Other recent publications include essays on Beckett’s early poetry and on his novels Watt and Murphy. He is currently carrying out research in the Northern Irish poetry archives at Emory University and the Arts Council Northern Ireland Archives, as part of his British Academy–funded Room to Rhyme project. His book of poems, Harm’s Way (2013), was published by Dedalus Press.
Jana Funke is Senior Lecturer in Medical Humanities and a Wellcome Trust Investigator based in the English Department at the University of Exeter. Her research focuses on modernist literature and culture, the history of sexuality, sexual science and medicine, and feminist studies and queer theory. Books include The World and Other Unpublished Works by Radclyffe Hall (Manchester, 2016), and the co-edited volumes Sex, Gender and Time in Fiction and Culture (with Ben Davies; Palgrave, 2011) and Sculpture, Sexuality and History: Encounters in Literature, Culture and the Arts (with Jen Grove; Palgrave, 2018).
Emily Hayman is Professor of Literature at Bard Early College in Baltimore. She received her PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and is currently revising a manuscript on British modernism and multilingualism.
Alexander Howard teaches modern and contemporary literature at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Charles Henri Ford: Between Modernism and Postmodernism (2017). His recent work has appeared in Modernism/Modernity, Affirmations: Of the Modern and the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. His research is also forthcoming in Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities.
Pericles Lewis is Professor of Comparative Literature, Vice President for Global Strategy, and Deputy Provost for International Affairs at Yale University. He is the author or editor of six books on twentieth-century literature, including The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism (2007).
Laura Marcus is Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. She has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture, with a particular focus on modernism. Her work on film and literature includes her monographs Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema (Cambridge, 2014) and The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period (Oxford, 2007), as well as essays on topics including early film theory, documentary cinema, and literature and film in the 1930s. Her current research projects include collaborative work on scholarly editions of Dorothy Richardson and on Virginia Woolf’s short fiction, and a study of the concept of ‘rhythm’ in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in a range of disciplinary contexts.
Kirsty Martin is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Exeter. Her first book, Modernism and the Rhythms of Sympathy, was published by Oxford University Press in 2013. She is currently writing about literature and happiness.
Ulrika Maude is Reader in Modernism and Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Beckett, Technology and the Body (Cambridge, 2009) and Samuel Beckett and Medicine (Cambridge, 2019). She is co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature (Cambridge, 2015), Beckett and Phenomenology (Continuum, 2009), and The Body and the Arts (Palgrave Macmillan 2009). She is writing a book on modernist literature and medicine and working on a critical edition of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway for the new Bloomsbury Editions series (Bloomsbury).
Tyrus Miller is Vice Provost, Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is the author of Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts between the World Wars (California, 1999), Singular Examples: Artistic Politics and the Neo-Avant-Garde (Northwestern, 2009), Time Images: Alternative Temporalities in 20th-Century Theory, History, and Art (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), and Modernism and the Frankfurt School (Edinburgh, 2014). He is the editor of Given World and Time: Temporalities in Context (Central European UP, 2008) and A Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis (Cambridge, 2016). He is the translator/editor of György Lukács, The Culture of People’s Democracy: Hungarian Essays on Literature, Art, and Democratic Transition (Brill, 2012) and series co-editor of Brill’s Lukács Library series.
Julian Murphet is Scientia Professor in English and Film Studies in the School of the Arts and Media, UNSW, where he directs the Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia. He is the author of Multimedia Modernism (Cambridge, 2009) and Faulkner’s Media Romance (Oxford, 2017). He edits the OHP journal Affirmations: of the Modern.
Mark Nixon is Associate Professor in Modern Literature at the University of Reading, where he is also Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation. With Dirk Van Hulle, he is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Beckett Studies and Co-Director of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project. He is also an editor of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui and a former President of the Samuel Beckett Society. He has published widely on Beckett’s work; his recent books include Samuel Beckett’s Library (Cambridge, 2013 with Dirk Van Hulle) and the critical edition of Beckett’s short story ‘Echo’s Bones’ (Faber, 2014). He is currently preparing a critical edition of Beckett’s ‘German Diaries’ (with Oliver Lubrich; Suhrkamp, 2019).
Benita Parry is Emerita Professor at the University of Warwick. She has written on the Literature of Empire, Peripheral Modernisms and Postcolonial Studies. Her monographs include Delusions and Discoveries: Studies on India in the British Imagination (Verso, 1972, 1998), Conrad and Imperialism: Ideological Boundaries and Visionary Frontiers (Palgrave, 1984) and Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique (Routledge, 2004).
Alex Pestell completed his doctoral studies at the University of Sussex. His research interests include modernism, contemporary poetry, philosophy and the avant-garde. He is the author of Geoffrey Hill: The Drama of Reason (Peter Lang, 2016).
Sean Pryor is Senior Lecturer in English at The University of New South Wales. He recently published a new book, Poetry, Modernism, and an Imperfect World (Cambridge, 2017). He is co-editor, with David Trotter, of Writing, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies (Open Humanities Press, 2016).
Lawrence Rainey is the author of many books on modernism, including Ezra Pound and the Monument of Culture (Chicago, 1991) and Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Popular Culture (Yale, 1998). He founded the journal Modernism/modernity, which he edited for many years.
Laura Salisbury is Associate Professor in Medicine and English Literature. She has published widely on literary modernism and in the medical humanities – particularly on relationship between modernism and neurological accounts of language. She is the author of Samuel Beckett: Laughing Matters, Comic Timing (Edinburgh, 2012), and is co-editor of Other Becketts (Florida, 2002), Neurology and Modernity (Palgrave, 2010) and Kittler Now (Polity, 2015). With Lisa Baraitser, she is Principal Investigator on a Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award entitled ‘Waiting Times’. As part of this research, she will be writing a cultural history of waiting. At the University of Exeter, she is based in the English Department and in the University’s Wellcome Trust Centre for the Cultures and Environments of Health.
Ronald Schleifer is George Lynn Cross Research Professor of English and Adjunct Professor in Medicine at the University of Oklahoma. He has written or edited more than twenty books, the most recent of which are Pain and Suffering (Routledge, 2014) and The Chief Concern of Medicine: The Integration of the Medical Humanities and Narrative Knowledge into Medical Practices (co-authored with Dr Jerry Vannatta, Michigan, 2013). He has also published a number of books focused on what he calls cultural modernism. These include Modernism and Time: The Logic of Abundance in Literature, Science, and Culture 1880–1940 (Cambridge, 2000), Modernism and Popular Music (Cambridge, 2011) and A Political Economy of Modernism: Literature, Post-Classical Economics, and the Lower Middle Class (Cambridge, 2018).
Paul Sheehan is Associate Professor at Macquarie University. He is the author of Modernism, Narrative and Humanism (Cambridge, 2002) and Modernism and the Aesthetics of Violence (Cambridge, 2013). He is editor of Becoming Human: New Perspectives on the Inhuman Condition (Westport, 2003) and of a special issue of Textual Practice 26:4 (2012), ‘On the Uses of Anachronism’. He is currently writing a monograph on ‘Continental Theory and the Rapture of Poetry’.
Andrew Thacker is Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature at Nottingham Trent University. He is the author or editor of several books on modernism, including the three volumes of The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines (Oxford, 2009–13), Geographies of Modernism (Routledge, 2005), and Moving Through Modernity: Space and Geography in Modernism (Manchester, 2003). He was a founder member and the first Chair of the British Association for Modernist Studies and is an editor of the long-running interdisciplinary journal Literature & History.
Dirk Van Hulle, Professor of English Literature at the University of Antwerp and Director of the Centre for Manuscript Genetics, edited the new Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett (Cambridge, 2015). With Mark Nixon, he is co-director of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (www.beckettarchive.org) and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Beckett Studies. His publications include Textual Awareness (U of Michigan P, 2004), Modern Manuscripts (Bloomsbury, 2014), Samuel Beckett’s Library (Cambridge, 2013, with Mark Nixon), James Joyce’s Work in Progress (Routledge, 2016) and several genetic editions in the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project, including Krapp’s Last Tape/La Dernière Bande, Molloy (with Magessa O’Reilly and Pim Verhulst), L’Innommable/The Unnamable (with Shane Weller) and the Beckett Digital Library.
Shane Weller is Professor of Comparative Literature and Co-Director of the Centre for Modern European Literature at the University of Kent. He has published on a range of modern European writers, including Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Maurice Blanchot and Paul Celan. His monographs include Beckett, Literature and the Ethics of Alterity (Palgrave, 2006), Modernism and Nihilism (Palgrave, 2011) and The Making of Samuel Beckett’s L’Innommable/The Unnamable (Bloomsbury, 2014, with Dirk Van Hulle).