Dave Gunning

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I welcome applications for PhD study in the area of 21st-century Anglophone literature.

Current and former PhD supervisions in which I’ve been involved include:

A micro-history of black Handsworth
Local and global identities in the contemporary Irish novel
Arab-American Drama
Narrative and Identity in the fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro
Feminisms in the New Nigerian Novel
The marketing of mixed-race identity in British publishing
Gender Politics in expatriate Arabian Gulf fiction
Douglas Coupland and the transnational
Derek Walcott and the pastoral mode
Contemporary Caribbean Poetics
The textual spaces of Afropolitanism

Research activity per year

Biography

I joined the University of Birmingham in 2007, having previously held a lectureship in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Leeds.

Research interests

My current research includes work on the essay as political form, the nature and development of the postcolonial Bildungsroman, and the novel as space of sanctuary: linking these is a concern with how formal innovation allows for political and ethical exploration.

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12 Chapter
8 Article
2 Book
2 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
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- 1 Editorial

Dissociation, Spirit Possession and the Languages of Trauma in Some Recent African-British Novels
Gunning, D., 1 Dec 2015, In: Research in African Literatures. 46, 4, p. 119-132
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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6 Citations (Scopus)

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The first-person plural in Hanif Kureishi's essays
Gunning, D., 1 Jun 2015, In: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 50, 2, p. 133-149 17 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
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3 Citations (Scopus)

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Unhappy Bildungsromane
Gunning, D., 2014, Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Persepectives. Baxter, J. & James, D. (eds.). Bloomsbury Academic, p. 9-22 14 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Postcolonial Literature
Gunning, D., 2013, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 221 p. (Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
The Limits of Culture and Community in Monica Ali's 'Brick Lane'
Gunning, D., 2013, Cultural Encounters. Birns, N. (ed.). Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, p. 304-321 18 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Violent Textualities: The Politics and Poetics of World Graphic Literature (Dr Charlotta Salmi)
Gunning, D. (Principal Investigator) & Salmi, C. (Co-Investigator)
British Academy
1/09/14 → 31/08/17
Project: Research Councils

20 Publication peer-review
2 Consultancy
2 Guest lecture or Invited talk
1 Membership of board
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- 1 Conference, workshop or symposium

Invited paper, Eng Dept research seminar
Gunning, D. (Invited speaker)
Nov 2014
Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Guest lecture or Invited talk
Invited keynote
Gunning, D. (Keynote speaker)
Jun 2014
Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Guest lecture or Invited talk
Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Journal)
Gunning, D. (Peer reviewer)
2014 → …
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review
Centre of Contemporary Cultural Studies Conference
Gunning, D. (Member of Programme Committee)
2014
Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Conference, workshop or symposium
Bloomsbury Academic (Publisher)
Gunning, D. (Peer reviewer)
2014 → …
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review

Dave Gunning

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