Dr Andrew Frayn

Conference co-organiser: Survival and Exile: Richard Aldington’s response to his war, Northeastern University London, 2 Dec 2023
2023

Description Richard Aldington’s Exile and Other Poems was published on 29 November 1923. This one-day conference celebrates its centenary, along with the publication of a new edition by the Renard Press, edited and annotated by Aldington scholars Elizabeth Vandiver and Vivien Whelpton. This will be the first UK conference devoted to Aldington since 1986, and the organisers are keen to encounter and encourage new scholarship on this neglected author.

Research Areas Literature

Research Themes Culture and Communities

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture

Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

URL https://nclsn.wordpress.com/2023/02/22/cfp-survival-and-exile-richard-aldingtons-response-to-his-war-london-sat-2-dec-2023/

Description	Richard Aldington’s Exile and Other Poems was published on 29 November 1923. This one-day conference celebrates its centenary, along with the publication of a new edition by the Renard Press, edited and annotated by Aldington scholars Elizabeth Vandiver and Vivien Whelpton. This will be the first UK conference devoted to Aldington since 1986, and the organisers are keen to encounter and encourage new scholarship on this neglected author.
Research Areas	Literature
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units	School of Arts and Creative Industries
URL	https://nclsn.wordpress.com/2023/02/22/cfp-survival-and-exile-richard-aldingtons-response-to-his-war-london-sat-2-dec-2023/

Conference panel chair: Science and Modernism, The British Society for Literature and Science, Edinburgh Napier University, 13-15 Apr 2023
2023

Description Papers:
Imola Nagy-Seres (Humbolt University of Berlin), ‘Full of sand and seaweed’: Katherine Mansfield’s Modernist Rock Pools
Eliza Browning, ‘Temporality and the Ecology of Water in Virginia Woolf's The Years (1937)’
Michael Whitworth (University of Oxford), ‘Scientific Language and Images in “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”’

Research Areas Literature

Research Themes Culture and Communities

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture

Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

URL https://www.bsls.ac.uk/2023-conference-edinburgh-napier/

Description	Papers: Imola Nagy-Seres (Humbolt University of Berlin), ‘Full of sand and seaweed’: Katherine Mansfield’s Modernist Rock Pools Eliza Browning, ‘Temporality and the Ecology of Water in Virginia Woolf's The Years (1937)’ Michael Whitworth (University of Oxford), ‘Scientific Language and Images in “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”’
Research Areas	Literature
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units	School of Arts and Creative Industries
URL	https://www.bsls.ac.uk/2023-conference-edinburgh-napier/

External examiner: PhD, University College Cork, Edel Hanley, "War Trauma in Women’s First World War Poetry and Autobiographical Writing", Sep 2022
2022

Description The thesis passed with minor corrections.
Supervisor: Prof. Lee Jenkins
Internal Examiner: Dr Alex Davis

Research Areas Literature

Research Themes Culture and Communities

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture

Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

Description	The thesis passed with minor corrections. Supervisor: Prof. Lee Jenkins Internal Examiner: Dr Alex Davis
Research Areas	Literature
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units	School of Arts and Creative Industries

Lead conference organiser; keynote chair; panel chair: Hopeful Modernisms, British Association for Modernist Studies, University of Bristol, 23-25 June 2022
2022

Description Conference organiser:
Hopeful Modernisms
The Conference of the British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS)
University of Bristol, 23-25 June 2022

I led the conference organising committee as 2022 Chair of BAMS.

There were over 200 attendees from 22 countries.
~~~~~
Chair for session of the 2022 conference of the British Association for Modernist Studies, as Association Chair.

Urmila Seshagiri, “‘Sure and Certain Knowledge’: Virginia Woolf’s Literary Lives”
~~~~~
Panel chair: Uncertain Futures
Papers:
Polly Hember (Royal Holloway, University of London), “Hoping for Change: Robert Herring’s Biblical Parody, the POOL group, and the Future of Film”
Gareth Mills (Independent Scholar), “Contested visions of art’s commercial future during the boom in middlebrow fine art speculation, 1920-29”
Cécile Varry (Université de Paris), “T. S. Eliot’s ‘Marina’: The Future out of Focus”
~~~~~
Panel chair: Hopeful Embodiment in the Modernist Night
Papers:
Dominic Berry (University of Sheffield), “Optimistic Darkness: The Night in Jacob's Room (1922)”
Nicola Dimitriou (University of Sheffield), “Hopefulness through walking in the dark in Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland (written 1940, first published 1977)”
Chris Wells (University of Sheffield), “One can love both': Richard Bruce Nugent and Bisexuality in Harlem's Nocturnal Heterotopia”

Research Areas Literature

Research Themes Culture and Communities

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture

Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

Description	Conference organiser: Hopeful Modernisms The Conference of the British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) University of Bristol, 23-25 June 2022 I led the conference organising committee as 2022 Chair of BAMS. There were over 200 attendees from 22 countries. ~~~~~ Chair for session of the 2022 conference of the British Association for Modernist Studies, as Association Chair. Urmila Seshagiri, “‘Sure and Certain Knowledge’: Virginia Woolf’s Literary Lives” ~~~~~ Panel chair: Uncertain Futures Papers: Polly Hember (Royal Holloway, University of London), “Hoping for Change: Robert Herring’s Biblical Parody, the POOL group, and the Future of Film” Gareth Mills (Independent Scholar), “Contested visions of art’s commercial future during the boom in middlebrow fine art speculation, 1920-29” Cécile Varry (Université de Paris), “T. S. Eliot’s ‘Marina’: The Future out of Focus” ~~~~~ Panel chair: Hopeful Embodiment in the Modernist Night Papers: Dominic Berry (University of Sheffield), “Optimistic Darkness: The Night in Jacob's Room (1922)” Nicola Dimitriou (University of Sheffield), “Hopefulness through walking in the dark in Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland (written 1940, first published 1977)” Chris Wells (University of Sheffield), “One can love both': Richard Bruce Nugent and Bisexuality in Harlem's Nocturnal Heterotopia”
Research Areas	Literature
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units	School of Arts and Creative Industries

Conference seminar participant: Hopeful Modernisms, British Association for Modernist Studies, University of Bristol, 23-25 June 2022
2022

Description Questionable Pleasures: the 1920s Bestsellers Reading Group

Peter Fifield
Aoife Bhreatnach
Andrew Frayn
Laura Ludtke
Mary Grace McGeehan
Naomi Wynter-Vincent

The Best-Sellers Reading Group began in 2020 to discuss popular works from the modernist period. We are academics and amateurs from the US and Europe seeking to broaden not only the literary corpus but also the participants and terms of discussion.
Peter Fifield argues that reading popular fiction presents a test case for literary studies' expanding field. The ongoing reformation of the modern period's cultural landscape brings to attention not only neglected groups and voices but also tastes and norms that fit poorly with the priorities of the syllabus. How are we to read texts whose popularity is integral to their significance, whilst their supposed pleasures are now so elusive?
Aoife Bhreatnach will discuss how unlike the novel form, routinely suppressed by Irish censors, popular literary magazines evaded this treatment, laying contemporary short stories and novel serialisation before Irish readers. Ephemeral serial magazines were sold by every newsagent in every small town, smuggling forms of modernity into a society whose self-satisfied nationalist narrative was enforced by severe restrictions on reading.
Drawing on Michael Denning’s work on assumptions about cultural value and universality, Andrew Frayn shows that returning to popular, non-canonical works productively decentres modernism. Noncanonicity, while a position rooted in opposition and often critically constructed as such, has intrinsic value, and to treat bestsellers seriously at a level that is not purely sociological enables us to understand better the zeitgeist.
Laura Ludtke discusses Michael Arlen’s best-selling 1924 novel The Green Hat, which posits that most people are driven by desire. She explores how, with its modernist proto-metafictional narrative, constantly drawing attention to the way in which characters and narratives are constructed in fiction, Arlen’s car-crash of a bestseller is driven by a duel-desire to overtly and ironically erode the sorts of conventions characteristic of the novels esteemed by its characters—Conrad, Wells, Lawrence, and Wilde—and to poke fun at its high modernist competitors.
Mary Grace McGeehan contests the tragic and comical portrayals of the “New Woman” with Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Edna Ferber's popular novels that gave her more agency. Fisher’s The Home-Maker tells the story of a frustrated housewife who finds fulfillment as a department store worker after her husband is paralyzed. In Ferber’s So Big, a woman turns her farm around after the death of her husband, who had ridiculed her modern ideas. Both books were best-sellers, showing the widespread appeal of feminism, which is often thought of as having been the purview of bohemians and intellectuals.
Naomi Wynter-Vincent shows how Wilder’s Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), explores the construction of meaning from contingent and idiosyncratic details. When the bridge’s collapse kills five people, Brother Juniper sets out to discern God’s plan by collecting the minutiae of their lives in hope of ascertaining whether they were specially selected to die for their sins or their virtues. Suspended between ‘accident’ and ‘intention’, the novel stages the chasm between the mountain and the moon: between amassing detail and the discovery of meaning that is also an allegory for the practice of storytelling.

We would also like to host the June reading group at the conference, reading Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage (1912).

Research Areas Literature

Research Themes Culture and Communities

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture

Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

Description	Questionable Pleasures: the 1920s Bestsellers Reading Group Peter Fifield Aoife Bhreatnach Andrew Frayn Laura Ludtke Mary Grace McGeehan Naomi Wynter-Vincent The Best-Sellers Reading Group began in 2020 to discuss popular works from the modernist period. We are academics and amateurs from the US and Europe seeking to broaden not only the literary corpus but also the participants and terms of discussion. Peter Fifield argues that reading popular fiction presents a test case for literary studies' expanding field. The ongoing reformation of the modern period's cultural landscape brings to attention not only neglected groups and voices but also tastes and norms that fit poorly with the priorities of the syllabus. How are we to read texts whose popularity is integral to their significance, whilst their supposed pleasures are now so elusive? Aoife Bhreatnach will discuss how unlike the novel form, routinely suppressed by Irish censors, popular literary magazines evaded this treatment, laying contemporary short stories and novel serialisation before Irish readers. Ephemeral serial magazines were sold by every newsagent in every small town, smuggling forms of modernity into a society whose self-satisfied nationalist narrative was enforced by severe restrictions on reading. Drawing on Michael Denning’s work on assumptions about cultural value and universality, Andrew Frayn shows that returning to popular, non-canonical works productively decentres modernism. Noncanonicity, while a position rooted in opposition and often critically constructed as such, has intrinsic value, and to treat bestsellers seriously at a level that is not purely sociological enables us to understand better the zeitgeist. Laura Ludtke discusses Michael Arlen’s best-selling 1924 novel The Green Hat, which posits that most people are driven by desire. She explores how, with its modernist proto-metafictional narrative, constantly drawing attention to the way in which characters and narratives are constructed in fiction, Arlen’s car-crash of a bestseller is driven by a duel-desire to overtly and ironically erode the sorts of conventions characteristic of the novels esteemed by its characters—Conrad, Wells, Lawrence, and Wilde—and to poke fun at its high modernist competitors. Mary Grace McGeehan contests the tragic and comical portrayals of the “New Woman” with Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Edna Ferber's popular novels that gave her more agency. Fisher’s The Home-Maker tells the story of a frustrated housewife who finds fulfillment as a department store worker after her husband is paralyzed. In Ferber’s So Big, a woman turns her farm around after the death of her husband, who had ridiculed her modern ideas. Both books were best-sellers, showing the widespread appeal of feminism, which is often thought of as having been the purview of bohemians and intellectuals. Naomi Wynter-Vincent shows how Wilder’s Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), explores the construction of meaning from contingent and idiosyncratic details. When the bridge’s collapse kills five people, Brother Juniper sets out to discern God’s plan by collecting the minutiae of their lives in hope of ascertaining whether they were specially selected to die for their sins or their virtues. Suspended between ‘accident’ and ‘intention’, the novel stages the chasm between the mountain and the moon: between amassing detail and the discovery of meaning that is also an allegory for the practice of storytelling. We would also like to host the June reading group at the conference, reading Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage (1912).
Research Areas	Literature
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units	School of Arts and Creative Industries

Conference panel chair: Panel 2b, New Work in Modernist Studies, British Association for Modernist Studies, Loughborough University, 9 Dec 2022
2022

Description Papers:
Iris Pearson: "Form and Repulsive Readerly Affect in Late Twentieth-Century Experimental Novels"
Dafydd Sinden: "The dialectics of perception in the poetry of Peter Riley"
Elena Valli: "‘Cunning Embroiderers’: Jesuit composition of place in late modernist poetry"
Tobias Jenkins"'[B]reak out of [...] Clongowesian wrappings': An Introduction to W.R. Bion’s Clinical Modernism"

Research Areas Literature

Research Themes Culture and Communities

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture

Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

Description	Papers: Iris Pearson: "Form and Repulsive Readerly Affect in Late Twentieth-Century Experimental Novels" Dafydd Sinden: "The dialectics of perception in the poetry of Peter Riley" Elena Valli: "‘Cunning Embroiderers’: Jesuit composition of place in late modernist poetry" Tobias Jenkins"'[B]reak out of [...] Clongowesian wrappings': An Introduction to W.R. Bion’s Clinical Modernism"
Research Areas	Literature
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units	School of Arts and Creative Industries

Conference talk: Raymond Williams @ 100: A Centenary Conference, Manchester, April 2022
2022

Description ‘Raymond Williams, Norman Nicholson, and rural modernity.’ Raymond Williams @ 100: A Centenary Conference, The Raymond Williams Society (Manchester)

Research Areas Literature

Research Themes Culture and Communities

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture

Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

Description	‘Raymond Williams, Norman Nicholson, and rural modernity.’ Raymond Williams @ 100: A Centenary Conference, The Raymond Williams Society (Manchester)
Research Areas	Literature
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units	School of Arts and Creative Industries

Editor of special issue: Modernism/modernity Print+, 7.2 (2022)
2022

Description Editor, cluster (special issue) on ‘Modernist Centenaries, Anniversaries and Commemorations.’ Contribution: sole-authored critical introduction. Modernism/modernity Print+, 7.2 (2022).

Research Areas Literature
Cultural heritage

Research Themes Culture and Communities

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture

Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

URL https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/modernist-centenaries-anniversaries-commemorations

Description	Editor, cluster (special issue) on ‘Modernist Centenaries, Anniversaries and Commemorations.’ Contribution: sole-authored critical introduction. Modernism/modernity Print+, 7.2 (2022).
Research Areas	Literature Cultural heritage
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units	School of Arts and Creative Industries
URL	https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/modernist-centenaries-anniversaries-commemorations

Conference panel organiser and chair: The Future of Modernist Studies Beyond Britain., English: Shared Futures, The English Association, Manchester Metropolitan University, 8-9 July 2022
2022

Description This panel was invited by the conference organisers. I organised and chaired as the Chair of the British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) in 2022.

The Futures of Modernist Studies “Beyond Britain” (BAMS)
Jinan Ashraf (Dublin City), Daniel Ibrahim Abdalla (Liverpool), Andrew Frayn (Napier), Suzanne Hobson (QMUL), Juliette Taylor Batty (Leeds), Jade Munslow Ong (Salford).

The tensions between centre and periphery have long been central to the study of modernist writing, and the expansion of modernist studies in the last two decades has been predicated on ever-widening modernism’s temporal and geographical boundaries. Recent attention to cosmopolitanism, transnationalism and multilingualism reminds us that modernist writing was itself involved in complex debates over the local, the regional, the national and the international. This involvement took place in the context of the twentieth century crisis of the nation state and the historical processes of decolonisation and globalisation.

Given the contemporary crisis of the British state and of its internal and external territorial politics, and the problems and possibilities that have accrued from the Covid-19 pandemic in forming international connections, this panel proposes to explore the resources that these debates might offer for thinking modernist studies ‘beyond Britain’. We understand this to entail several types of question:

· The place of the national within the context of ‘British’ modernism: and the challenges of decentralizing or decolonizing our understanding of ‘British modernism’.

· The importance of the regional to British modernism.

· The lessons of modernist studies after Brexit and the return of nationalism as a political force within the constituent nations of the UK and beyond: what might modernist studies in Britain look like ‘after Britain’?

· The nature and extent of cultural and intellectual relations with Europe, the Americas, Australasia and the rest of the world.

Each of these theoretical questions has a practical corollary in thinking about the disciplinary structures that foster and support the study of modernism:

· What is the relationship between BAMS as a national organisation and the various ‘regional’ and ‘national’ modernist networks (SNoMS, MONC, Northern Modernism seminar, London Modernism Seminar and Modernist Studies Ireland)? What does it mean for BAMS to ‘represent’ ‘British’ modernism?

· How might we best conceive the relationship between BAMS and other associations in Europe, North America and Australasia? How have international relationships been changed by the pandemic?

· How might BAMS grow and better serve a geographically dispersed membership against a background of climate emergency and increased precarity in the profession?

· What is BAMS’s relationship to the UK Higher Education sector? What problems or opportunities arise from being beyond national frameworks?

Research Areas Literature

Research Themes Culture and Communities

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture

Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

URL https://englishsharedfutures.co.uk

Description	This panel was invited by the conference organisers. I organised and chaired as the Chair of the British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) in 2022. The Futures of Modernist Studies “Beyond Britain” (BAMS) Jinan Ashraf (Dublin City), Daniel Ibrahim Abdalla (Liverpool), Andrew Frayn (Napier), Suzanne Hobson (QMUL), Juliette Taylor Batty (Leeds), Jade Munslow Ong (Salford). The tensions between centre and periphery have long been central to the study of modernist writing, and the expansion of modernist studies in the last two decades has been predicated on ever-widening modernism’s temporal and geographical boundaries. Recent attention to cosmopolitanism, transnationalism and multilingualism reminds us that modernist writing was itself involved in complex debates over the local, the regional, the national and the international. This involvement took place in the context of the twentieth century crisis of the nation state and the historical processes of decolonisation and globalisation. Given the contemporary crisis of the British state and of its internal and external territorial politics, and the problems and possibilities that have accrued from the Covid-19 pandemic in forming international connections, this panel proposes to explore the resources that these debates might offer for thinking modernist studies ‘beyond Britain’. We understand this to entail several types of question: · The place of the national within the context of ‘British’ modernism: and the challenges of decentralizing or decolonizing our understanding of ‘British modernism’. · The importance of the regional to British modernism. · The lessons of modernist studies after Brexit and the return of nationalism as a political force within the constituent nations of the UK and beyond: what might modernist studies in Britain look like ‘after Britain’? · The nature and extent of cultural and intellectual relations with Europe, the Americas, Australasia and the rest of the world. Each of these theoretical questions has a practical corollary in thinking about the disciplinary structures that foster and support the study of modernism: · What is the relationship between BAMS as a national organisation and the various ‘regional’ and ‘national’ modernist networks (SNoMS, MONC, Northern Modernism seminar, London Modernism Seminar and Modernist Studies Ireland)? What does it mean for BAMS to ‘represent’ ‘British’ modernism? · How might we best conceive the relationship between BAMS and other associations in Europe, North America and Australasia? How have international relationships been changed by the pandemic? · How might BAMS grow and better serve a geographically dispersed membership against a background of climate emergency and increased precarity in the profession? · What is BAMS’s relationship to the UK Higher Education sector? What problems or opportunities arise from being beyond national frameworks?
Research Areas	Literature
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units	School of Arts and Creative Industries
URL	https://englishsharedfutures.co.uk

Graduate knowledge exchange hub member: Nominated for Scottish Graduate School of Arts and Humanities Discipline+ Catalyst Membership
2022

Description Edinburgh Napier's Scottish Graduate School of Arts and Humanities Discipline+ Catalyst member for 'Literatures'.

Research Areas Literature

Research Themes Culture and Communities

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture

Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

URL https://www.sgsah.ac.uk/e_t/dp/literature/

Description	Edinburgh Napier's Scottish Graduate School of Arts and Humanities Discipline+ Catalyst member for 'Literatures'.
Research Areas	Literature
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units	School of Arts and Creative Industries
URL	https://www.sgsah.ac.uk/e_t/dp/literature/

Invited editor of Wyndham Lewis, The Vulgar Streak, in the Complete Works of Wyndham Lewis (Oxford UP, publication c. 2030)
2022

Description Invited editor of this volume as an expert on modernist literature and conflict in literature.

Series: The Complete Works of Wyndham Lewis (Oxford UP). Gen eds: Prof Paul Edwards (Bath Spa University) and Dr Nathan Waddell (University of Birmingham).

Research Areas Literature

Research Themes Culture and Communities

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture

Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

Description	Invited editor of this volume as an expert on modernist literature and conflict in literature. Series: The Complete Works of Wyndham Lewis (Oxford UP). Gen eds: Prof Paul Edwards (Bath Spa University) and Dr Nathan Waddell (University of Birmingham).
Research Areas	Literature
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units	School of Arts and Creative Industries

Conference panel organiser: The Country and the City: Rural Modernity in Britain, Raymond Williams @ 100, Manchester, 22-23 Apr 2022
2022

Description I organised the above panel.

Papers:
Andrew Frayn, ‘Norman Nicholson, Raymond Williams, and Rural Modernity’
Kristin Bluemel, ‘Theorising Rural Modernity: Keywords

Research Areas Literature
Critical studies

Research Themes Culture and Communities
Environment

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture

Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

URL https://raymondwilliams.co.uk/annual-conference/

Description	I organised the above panel. Papers: Andrew Frayn, ‘Norman Nicholson, Raymond Williams, and Rural Modernity’ Kristin Bluemel, ‘Theorising Rural Modernity: Keywords
Research Areas	Literature Critical studies
Research Themes	Culture and Communities Environment
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units	School of Arts and Creative Industries
URL	https://raymondwilliams.co.uk/annual-conference/

Invited seminar participant: Literature+ Catalyst, Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities, 25 Apr 2022
2022

Description What is ‘impact’ and the academic ‘impact agenda’? And how do academics generate impactful research projects? This online event focuses on how to create impact in the discipline of Literary Studies.

‘Impact’ has become an increasingly important part of academic life in Britain, referring to ‘the demonstrable contribution that excellent research makes to society and the economy' (UK Research and Innovation). Funders and employers increasingly expect researchers to explain how and why their work might matter to non-academic audiences. Through a series of case studies, this online workshop shows you how to get started on creating impact opportunities for your own doctoral research, discussing different aspects of the impact agenda in academia and how this might apply to Literary Studies. The various talks will explore what impact is, how to achieve it, how to find and work with non-academic partner organisations, what issues might arise, and the potential ethical considerations involved in impact projects.

Research Areas Literature

Research Themes Culture and Communities

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture

Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

Description	What is ‘impact’ and the academic ‘impact agenda’? And how do academics generate impactful research projects? This online event focuses on how to create impact in the discipline of Literary Studies. ‘Impact’ has become an increasingly important part of academic life in Britain, referring to ‘the demonstrable contribution that excellent research makes to society and the economy' (UK Research and Innovation). Funders and employers increasingly expect researchers to explain how and why their work might matter to non-academic audiences. Through a series of case studies, this online workshop shows you how to get started on creating impact opportunities for your own doctoral research, discussing different aspects of the impact agenda in academia and how this might apply to Literary Studies. The various talks will explore what impact is, how to achieve it, how to find and work with non-academic partner organisations, what issues might arise, and the potential ethical considerations involved in impact projects.
Research Areas	Literature
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units	School of Arts and Creative Industries

Conference organiser: Postgraduate Training Day, British Association for Modernist Studies, 9 Apr 2021
2021

Description 11-12.30: Modernism and Teaching Difficulty (Dr Barbara Cooke)
12.30-1.30 Lunch
1.30-2.45 Modernism and Teaching in Different Places (Dr Sophie Baldock and Dr Andrew Frayn)
2.45-3.00 Coffee Break
3.00-3.45 Roundtable on Modernism and Postgraduate Pedagogy (BAMS executive committee members)
3.45 End

Research Areas Literature

Research Themes Culture and Communities

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture

Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

URL https://bams.ac.uk/2021/03/17/bams-postgraduate-training-day-pedagogy-9-april-2021/

Description	11-12.30: Modernism and Teaching Difficulty (Dr Barbara Cooke) 12.30-1.30 Lunch 1.30-2.45 Modernism and Teaching in Different Places (Dr Sophie Baldock and Dr Andrew Frayn) 2.45-3.00 Coffee Break 3.00-3.45 Roundtable on Modernism and Postgraduate Pedagogy (BAMS executive committee members) 3.45 End
Research Areas	Literature
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units	School of Arts and Creative Industries
URL	https://bams.ac.uk/2021/03/17/bams-postgraduate-training-day-pedagogy-9-april-2021/

External examiner: PhD, Queen Mary University of London, Alexandra Trask, "The Afterlives of War:Middlebrow Literature, Memory and the First World War", June 2021
2021

Description The thesis passed with minor corrections.
Supervisors: Dr kitt price; Prof Bill Schwarz
Internal examiner: Dr Katie Fleming

Affiliated Organisations Queen Mary University of London

Research Areas Literature

Research Themes Culture and Communities

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture

Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

Description	The thesis passed with minor corrections. Supervisors: Dr kitt price; Prof Bill Schwarz Internal examiner: Dr Katie Fleming
Affiliated Organisations	Queen Mary University of London
Research Areas	Literature
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units	School of Arts and Creative Industries

Conference panel chair: Traumatic Modernities, New Work in Modernist Studies, British Association for Modernist Studies, 10 Dec 2021
2021

Description Papers:

Skylar Kovacs (Queen’s University, Ontario), ‘Trauma and Resilience in Modernist Women’s Literature’

Galen Bunting (Northeastern University), ‘“The Live, Sane, Vigorous World”: Jacob’s Room as Modernist Anti-War Novel’

Edel Hanley (University College Cork), ‘ “the glory of women”: Nurse Veterans in Women’s First World War Poetry’

Farah Nada (University of Exeter), ‘Traumatic Permafrost: Experience and Congealed Memory in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Death of the Heart’

Research Areas Literature

Research Themes Culture and Communities

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture

Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

Description	Papers: Skylar Kovacs (Queen’s University, Ontario), ‘Trauma and Resilience in Modernist Women’s Literature’ Galen Bunting (Northeastern University), ‘“The Live, Sane, Vigorous World”: Jacob’s Room as Modernist Anti-War Novel’ Edel Hanley (University College Cork), ‘ “the glory of women”: Nurse Veterans in Women’s First World War Poetry’ Farah Nada (University of Exeter), ‘Traumatic Permafrost: Experience and Congealed Memory in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Death of the Heart’
Research Areas	Literature
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units	School of Arts and Creative Industries

Invited editor of Ford Madox Ford, The Marsden Case, with True Love & a G.C.M., in the Complete Works of Ford Madox Ford (Oxford UP, publication c. 2031)
2021

Description Invited editor as an expert on Ford Madox Ford, modernist literature and the First World War for this volume.

Series: The Complete Works of Ford Madox Ford (Oxford University Press). Gen. eds: Prof Max Saunders (University of Birmingham) and Prof Sara Haslam (Open University).

Research Areas Literature

Research Themes Culture and Communities

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Centre for Literature and Writing

Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

Description	Invited editor as an expert on Ford Madox Ford, modernist literature and the First World War for this volume. Series: The Complete Works of Ford Madox Ford (Oxford University Press). Gen. eds: Prof Max Saunders (University of Birmingham) and Prof Sara Haslam (Open University).
Research Areas	Literature
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Arts, Media and Culture Centre for Literature and Writing
Org Units	School of Arts and Creative Industries

Invited seminar speaker: Ghent University, Belgium, November 2021
2021

Description Invited graduate seminar at Ghent University, Belgium (delivered online).
Title: War, Empire and Class in D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Affiliated Organisations Universiteit Gent

Research Areas Literature

Research Themes AI and Technologies

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing

Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

Description	Invited graduate seminar at Ghent University, Belgium (delivered online). Title: War, Empire and Class in D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Affiliated Organisations	Universiteit Gent
Research Areas	Literature
Research Themes	AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Literature and Writing
Org Units	School of Arts and Creative Industries

Invited seminar speaker: Northumbria University, November 2021
2021

Description Invited talk.
Departmental research seminar at Northumbria University.
Paper title: Rethinking First World War literature: The War Books Boom, 1928-30

Affiliated Organisations Northumbria University

Research Areas Literature

Research Themes AI and Technologies

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Literature and Writing

Projects A War Books Boom in Scotland? 1928-1932

Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

Description	Invited talk. Departmental research seminar at Northumbria University. Paper title: Rethinking First World War literature: The War Books Boom, 1928-30
Affiliated Organisations	Northumbria University
Research Areas	Literature
Research Themes	AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Literature and Writing
Projects	A War Books Boom in Scotland? 1928-1932
Org Units	School of Arts and Creative Industries

Conference co-organiser, Festival of Modernism, British Association for Modernist Studies, Online, June-July 2021
2021

Description Co-organised the Festival of Modernism, a month-long online programme of events in the summer of 2021.

Included my own participation in a session on Modernism and the Bestseller (details below)

Modernism and the bestseller: roundtable, followed by reading group on E.M. Hull, The Sheik (1919)
Bestselling novels have been brought into modernist studies by a recuperative work in a variety of guises over recent decades. This session begins with a roundtable discussion between Dr Andrew Frayn (Edinburgh Napier University), Dr Peter Fifield (Birkbeck, University of London) and Dr Ellen Turner (Lund University) on modernism, popular fiction and the bestseller. The roundtable will be followed by discussion, and then a reading group focusing on E.M. Hull’s The Sheik (1919), on which Dr Turner has written widely. The bestsellers reading group is a regular monthly event hosted by Dr Fifield.

Research Areas Film and television
Literature

Research Themes Culture and Communities

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Arts, Media and Culture

Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries

Description	Co-organised the Festival of Modernism, a month-long online programme of events in the summer of 2021. Included my own participation in a session on Modernism and the Bestseller (details below) Modernism and the bestseller: roundtable, followed by reading group on E.M. Hull, The Sheik (1919) Bestselling novels have been brought into modernist studies by a recuperative work in a variety of guises over recent decades. This session begins with a roundtable discussion between Dr Andrew Frayn (Edinburgh Napier University), Dr Peter Fifield (Birkbeck, University of London) and Dr Ellen Turner (Lund University) on modernism, popular fiction and the bestseller. The roundtable will be followed by discussion, and then a reading group focusing on E.M. Hull’s The Sheik (1919), on which Dr Turner has written widely. The bestsellers reading group is a regular monthly event hosted by Dr Fifield.
Research Areas	Film and television Literature
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Arts, Media and Culture
Org Units	School of Arts and Creative Industries

Dr Andrew Frayn's Recognition (122)