University of Glamorgan

Prof Jeff Wallace

Professor of Literature and Cultural History
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Tel 01443 482867
Room: FH102

Qualifications

BA (Newcastle Polytechnic), PGCE (Warwick), MA and PhD (Kent)

About

Duties & Responsibilities

Head of Humanities and Languages

Experience

Liverpool Polytechnic, the Open University, Bristol Polytechnic, University of Kent, Indiana University

Research

D.H. Lawrence; science and literature from C19 to the present; theories of the posthuman; the concept of abstraction in modern literature.

Selected Publications

Co-founding editor of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism, and of the book series Texts in Culture (Manchester University Press)

D.H. Lawrence, Science and the Posthuman (Palgrave, 2005)

Gothic Modernisms, ed., with Andrew Smith (Palgrave, 2001)

Raymond Williams Now: Knowledge, Limits and the Future, ed., with Rod Jones and Sophie Nield (Macmillan, 1997)

Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species: New Interdisciplinary Essays, ed., with David Amigoni (Manchester University Press, 1995)

‘Modernists on the art of fiction’, The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel, ed. Morag Shiach (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)

‘Lawrentianisms: Rhys Davies and D.H. Lawrence’, Rhys Davies: Decoding the Hare, ed. Meic Stephens (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2001)

‘Driven to Abstraction? Raymond Williams and the Road’, in Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays 5, ed. Tony Brown (Cardiff: New Welsh Review, 1999), pp.115-129

‘Against Idealism: Science and Language in Lawrence’s Philosophical Writing’, Etudes Lawrenciennes 19 (1999), pp.33-54

‘The World Before Eyes: Calvino, Barthes and Science’, The Third Culture: Literature and Science, ed. E.S. Shaffer (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1998), pp.269-283

Editions

Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species; D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love; D.H. Lawrence, The Virgin and the Gipsy and other stories – all published by Wordsworth Classics

Professional Memberships

Raymond Williams Society (member of Management Committee), Modernist Studies Association, British Association of Victorian Studies

Consultancy

Currently external examiner in English at the University of Gloucestershire and for the M.Res in Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University