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Doug Battersby
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Doug Battersby
Candidate statement
Lecturer in Modern Literature, University of Leicester, UK (permanent)
I teach and research anglophone literature from the 19th century to the present, with interdisciplinary interests in emotion studies, the health humanities, and philosophical approaches to literature. My first book, Troubling Late Modernism (shortlisted for the MSA First Book Prize), explores how postwar novelists from Vladimir Nabokov to Toni Morrison have reinvented modernist techniques for their own aesthetic and political ends, whilst my second book (OUP, under review) spotlights modernists who radicalised the corporeal styles of experiential description they found in 19th century fiction. See my website for a full publications list.
Through postdoctoral and visiting fellowships at the universities of Bristol (UK), Columbia (USA), Stanford (USA), Sydney (Australia), Tokyo (Japan), and Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), I have developed extensive international networks that would be an asset for this position. As International Relations Chair, I would focus on supporting graduate students and early career colleagues to participate in events run by MSA and affiliated organisations. I have recently organised a symposium on modernist fiction and sincerity (2021), an MSA panel (2022), and a stand-alone panel on modernist fiction and the health humanities (2023). This position would be an opportunity for me to further develop my organisational experience and skills.
I teach and research anglophone literature from the 19th century to the present, with interdisciplinary interests in emotion studies, the health humanities, and philosophical approaches to literature. My first book, Troubling Late Modernism (shortlisted for the MSA First Book Prize), explores how postwar novelists from Vladimir Nabokov to Toni Morrison have reinvented modernist techniques for their own aesthetic and political ends, whilst my second book (OUP, under review) spotlights modernists who radicalised the corporeal styles of experiential description they found in 19th century fiction. See my website for a full publications list.
Through postdoctoral and visiting fellowships at the universities of Bristol (UK), Columbia (USA), Stanford (USA), Sydney (Australia), Tokyo (Japan), and Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), I have developed extensive international networks that would be an asset for this position. As International Relations Chair, I would focus on supporting graduate students and early career colleagues to participate in events run by MSA and affiliated organisations. I have recently organised a symposium on modernist fiction and sincerity (2021), an MSA panel (2022), and a stand-alone panel on modernist fiction and the health humanities (2023). This position would be an opportunity for me to further develop my organisational experience and skills.
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