Professor Lucie Armitt

Chair in Literary and Cultural Studies

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Wednesdays 1.00pm – 3.00pm

Professor Lucie Armitt joined the University of Salford in September 2006 from the University of Wales, Bangor, where she had been Head of English for 3 years. She is currently Director of the Centre for English Literature and Language Research and REF submission Leader for Unit of Assessment 29: English Language and Literature. She has published six academic books and numerous book chapters and articles in international peer-reviewed journals. She is founding Treasurer of the Contemporary Women’s Writing Association (www.the-cwwa.org) and Associate Editor of the prize-winning journal Contemporary Women’s Writing (Oxford University Press). She is PI of the Collaborative Skills Development Programme for PGRs and ECRs researching in the field of Contemporary Women’s Writing.

Professor Lucie Armitt is module convenor for the for the Level 7 module ‘Gothic: Modernity and Monstrosity’ and also teaches on the Level 7 modules ‘Anthony Burgess and His Contemporaries’ and ‘Literature in the Academic and Cultural World.’ She is module convenor for the level 6 module ‘Twenty-First-Century Women’s Fiction’ and also lectures on the Level 6 module ‘Postmodernism’. She lectures and is a seminar tutor on the Level 5 module ‘Utopias and Dystopias.’ She also lectures on the following Level 4 modules: ‘Narrative Fiction and the Novel’, ‘Theory and Practice’, ‘Popular Fictions.’

Professor Lucie Armitt is a specialist in the literary fantastic, the Gothic, contemporary women’s writing and literary feminism. She has published extensively in all these fields, but has a sustained interest in the work of Sarah Waters and Jeanette Winterson. She is currently working on a project on Literature and Gothic Tourism (with Dr Scott Brewster).

Phd Comparative Literary Theory (University of Warwick, 1987-92). Funded by British Academy Major State Award.

MA Comparative Literary Theory (University of Warwick, 1986-87) Funded by British Academy Major State Award.

BA (Hons) English Studies, 1^st Class (University of Sunderland, 1981-84)

Book-length publications:

Lucie Armitt, Twentieth-Century Gothic (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2011)

Lucie Armitt, Fantasy Fiction (New York: Continuum, 2005)

Lucie Armitt, Contemporary Women’s Fiction and the Fantastic (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000)

Lucie Armitt (ed.) George Eliot: Readers’ Essential Guide to Criticism (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000)

Lucie Armitt, Theorising the Fantastic (London: Arnold, 1996)

Lucie Armitt (ed.) Where No Man Has Gone Before: Women and Science Fiction (London: Routledge, 1991)