Dr Glyn White

Lecturer in Twentieth Century Literature and Culture

• Crescent House 404
• T: 0161 295 6693
• E: g.white@salford.ac.uk
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Mondays 11.00am - 1.00pm

I have worked at the University of Salford since 2006.

I am currently convening four modules: Narrative Fiction and the Novel, Anthony Burgess and his Contemporaries, Popular Fictions and Postmodernism.

I also give lectures on Theory Into Practice and Classical Hollywood Cinema.

I am Programme Leader for English Literature and English Literature with English Language.

My research interests include the presentation of text and how the presence of the book informs readings of fiction. I have published work on Laurence Sterne, Samuel Beckett, B. S. Johnson, Christine Brooke-Rose, Alasdair Gray and Mark Z. Danielewski.  I am currently researching the use of page design and graphic elements in contemporary American fiction.

I am also interested in film and television texts and my interests in this field range from comedy to crime genres.

I would be happy to supervise work on any of the topics listed above.

Books:

Laughing Matters: Understanding Film, Radio and Television Comedy, co-authored with John Mundy, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012 (ISBN 07190 8315 0) 279pp..

Re-Reading B. S. Johnson (co-edited with Philip Tew), Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan 2007 (ISBN 0 2305 2492 3) 246pp.

Reading the Graphic Surface: The Presence of the Book in Prose Fiction , Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005 (ISBN 0 7190 6968 8) 216pp.

Chapters and Articles:

'Quality, Controversy and Criminality: The Shield as Post-Sopranos Cop Show', in: Ray, N (ed.), Interrogating The Shield, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, USA, 2012, pp.87-105.

 ‘Continuing B. S. Johnson Studies’', Critical Engagements: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, 4 (1-2), 2011, pp.233-247.

‘Reading the Graphic Surface of Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Fifty Year Sword’ in Joe Bray and Alison Gibbons (eds), Mark Z. Danielewski, Manchester University Press, 2011 (ISBN 978 07190 8262 7), pp. 105-120. 

‘Quentin Tarantino’ [updated] in Fifty Contemporary Film Directors, edited by Yvonne Tasker, London: Routledge, 2011 (ISBN 0-415-55433-0), pp. 392-99.

 ‘The Critic in the Text: footnotes and marginalia in Alasdair Gray’s Lanark’ in the Ma(r)king the Text: the presentation of meaning on the literary page, edited by Joe Bray, Miriam Handley and Anne C. Henry, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000 (ISBN 0 7546 0168 4), pp.55-70.

 ‘Quentin Tarantino’ in Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers, edited by Yvonne Tasker, London: Routledge, 2002 (ISBN 0 4151 8974 8), pp.338-346.

‘“YOU ARE HERE”: Reading and Representation in Christine Brooke-Rose’s Thru’, Poetics Today, 23:4 (ISSN 0333 5372), pp.611-631.

‘The Forgotten Voice of B. S. Johnson’, in Forgotten Voices; a special issue of The Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Winter 2000-2001 (ISSN 1218 7364), University of Debrecen Press, Hungary, pp.143-162.

Forthcoming

Guest Editor of European Journal of English Studies 17.1 Special Edition on Visual Text, with Judy Kendall & Manuel Portela (forthcoming 2013)