BA MPhil DPhil (Oxford)

Reader in English Literature

Contact Details:

• E: mjr1@le.ac.uk

• T: +44 (0)116 252 2639

Research Interests

Mark Rawlinson works on nineteenth- and twentieth century literature, especially narrative fiction and poetry. His research has a particular focus on  the literature of war. British Writing of the Second World War (2000) was a study of the literary culture of wartime Britain (1939-1945), and that investigation is being extended to how the meanings of the Second World War have been reassessed in fiction and film since 1945.

Projects

• The #Tagginganna Project 

Current Postgraduate Supervision

Mark Rawlinson has supervised PhD theses on the fiction of Henry Green, Modernism and Myth, V.S.Naipaul, Poetry and the City (Eliot, Fisher, Sinclair and Dun) and speculative fiction of the Second World War. Current doctoral candidates under his supervision are working on: James Joyce and the Orient; War literature for Adolescents; Trades Unions and the British novel since 1945.

Dr Rawlinson would welcome inquiries from students interested in literature and war; twentieth-century narrative fiction.

Teaching and Administration

• EN1010 Reading English
• EN3078 Love and Death: The Novel in Nineteenth-century Russia and France
• EN3159 Modern European Fiction

Mark Rawlinson is Academic Director of the College of Arts, Humanities and Law.

He is a member of the University's Academic Policy Committee and numerous committees, working groups and panels managing innovation in learning and the quality of education in the University.

He is a member of the Quality Assurance Agency's Register of Institutional Auditors.

Recent Publications

Co-editor, with Adam Piette, The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-century British and American War Literature (Edinburgh University Press, 2012)

Editor of The Norton Critical Edition of A Clockwork Orange (Norton, 2011)

Pat Barker (Palgrave, 2009), pp. 189.

‘"Soft-skinned Vehicle": Voice, Matter and the History of the Second World War in Tom Paulin’s The Invasion Handbook’, in Petra Uta-Rau, ed., Body, Text and Nation (Palgrave, 2010), 83-103.

‘Sassoon, Owen, Rosenberg and Thomas’ in Michael O’Neill, ed., The Cambridge History of English Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 1253-1282.

'"Far more remote than it actually is": Rumer Godden's Black Narcissus and 1930s Mountain Writing’, in Lucy Le Guilcher and Phyllis Lassner, eds, Rumer Godden: International and Intermodern Storyteller (Palgrave, 2010), 39-50.

 ‘The Second World War: British Writing’, in Kate McLoughlin ed., The Cambridge Companion to War Writing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 197-211.

 ‘After War: Writing about World War in a Post-War Era?’ in eds Eve Patten and Richard Pine, Literatures of War (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2008), 380-400.

‘Wilfred Owen’, Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry, ed. Tim Kendall (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 114-33.

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