David James

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I would welcome for supervision projects on all aspects of contemporary fiction, postcolonial writing, modernist literary culture, creative nonfiction, affect studies, literary geographies, and the critical health humanities.

Over the past couple of decades, I have supervised PhD students working on a range of topics, including multilingualism and the twentieth-century novel, realism and the politics of innovation in postwar American fiction, the ethics and poetics of autobiography, narrative theory, trauma fiction, the afterlives of modernism, and contemporary nature writing.

Research activity per year

28 Chapter
19 Article
4 Anthology
3 Book

1 - 50 out of 54 results

2024
Caring about Lyricality
James, D., 28 Feb 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Textual Practice. 38, p. 382-395 14 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Sentimental Activism
James, D., 2024, (Unpublished) Columbia University Press.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
2023
Literature of uplift
James, D., 12 Jan 2023, Literary Studies and Human Flourishing. English, J. F. & Love, H. (eds.). New York: Oxford University Press, p. 99–122 24 p. (The Humanities and Human Flourishing).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2022
The Romance of Consequentiality
James, D., 22 Feb 2022, In: American Literary History. 34, 1, p. 394-407 14 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2021
Affect’s vocabularies: literature and feeling after 1890
James, D., Feb 2021, The New Modernist Studies. Mao, D. (ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press, p. 129-151 23 p. (Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
'Experimental Fiction'
James, D., 2 Sept 2021, The Cambridge companion to twenty-first century American fiction. Miller, J. (ed.). 1st ed. Cambridge University Press, p. 43-62 (Cambridge Companions to Literature).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Listening to the refugee: Valeria Luiselli's sentimental activism
James, D., 15 Jun 2021, In: MFS - Modern Fiction Studies. 67, 2, p. 390-417 28 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Zadie Smith's style of thinking
James, D., 15 Jan 2021, In: Post45. 5, 9.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
2020

Modernism and Close Reading
James, D. (Editor), 2020, Oxford University Press.
Research output: Book/Report › Anthology
'Styles: Dusklands, Age of Iron, Disgrace, The Schooldays of Jesus'
James, D., 2020, The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee. Zimbler, J. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, p. 64-83
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2019

'Narrative Artifice'
James, D., 2019, The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan. Head, D. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, p. 181-196
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2018

'In Defense of Lyrical Realism'
James, D., 2018, In: Diacritics. 45, 4, p. 68-91
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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1 Citation (Scopus)

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'Modernist Affects and Contemporary Literature'
James, D., 2018, In: Modernism/Modernity. Print-Plus: vol. 3, cycle 4
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
'The Novel as Encyclopaedia'
James, D., 2018, The Cambridge Companion to the Novel. Bulson, E. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, p. 74-90
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2017

'Transnational Postmodern and Contemporary Literature'
James, D., 2017, The Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature. Goyal, Y. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, p. 122-140
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

1 Citation (Scopus)
2016

'Afterword: The Poetics of Perpetuation'
James, D., 2016, Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture. Reynolds, P. (ed.). Anthem Press, p. 175-181
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
'Critical Solace'
James, D., 22 Dec 2016, In: New Literary History. 47, 4, p. 481-504 24 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
7 Citations (Scopus)
Decentring Englishness
James, D., 4 Feb 2016, The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume VII: British and Irish Fiction since 1940. Boxall, P. & Cheyette, B. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 435-449
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

49 Citations (Scopus)
Experimentalism: self-reflexive and postmodern stories
James, D., Nov 2016, The Cambridge History of the English Short Story. Head, D. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, p. 464-480 25 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
'How Postmodernism Became Earnest'
James, D., 2016, Postmodern/Postwar-and After: Rethinking American Literature. Gladstone, J., Hoberek, A. & Worden, D. (eds.). University of Iowa Press, p. 81-91
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
'Modern/Altermodern'
James, D., 2016, Time: A Vocabulary of the Present. Elias, A. J. & Burges, J. (eds.). New York University Press, p. 66-81
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
'Modernism and the Urban Imaginary: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Cosmopolitanism'
James, D., 2016, The Cambridge History of Modernism. Sherry, V. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, p. 235-249
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2015
Afterword
James, D., 18 Nov 2015, The Contemporaneity of Modernism: Literature, Media, Culture. D'Arcy, M. & Nilges, M. (eds.). 1st ed. Routledge, p. 216-224 9 p. (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature; vol. 61).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
James, D. (Editor), 2015, Cambridge University Press.
Research output: Book/Report › Anthology
Worlded localisms: cosmopolitics writ small
James, D., Feb 2015, Postmodern Literature and Race. Platt, L. & Upstone, S. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, p. 47-62 16 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

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2 Citations (Scopus)

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2014

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
James, D. (Editor) & Baxter, J. (Editor), 2014, Bloomsbury.
Research output: Book/Report › Anthology
'Art Unseduced by Its Own Beauty: Toni Morrison and the Humility of Experiment'
James, D., 2014, New Directions in the History of the Novel. Nash, A., Parrinder, P. & Wilson, N. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 211-222
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
'The Immediacy of Small Island'
James, D., 2014, Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives. James, D. & Baxter, J. (eds.). Bloomsbury, p. 53-64
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
'"The Now so Unfashionable Naturalistic Idea of Character": Reanimating Personhood from Under the Net to John Banville'
James, D., 2014, Iris Murdoch Connected. Luprecht, M. (ed.). University of Tennessee Press, p. 73-84
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2013

'Capturing the Scale of Fiction at Mid-Century'
James, D., 2013, Regional Modernisms. Alexander, N. & Moran, J. (eds.). Edinburgh University Press, p. 104-123
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
'"Seeing Beneath the Formlessness": James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Restorative Urbanism'
James, D., 2013, Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century. Waddell, N. & Reeve-Tucker, A. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 168-181
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2012

'"Advancing Along the Inherited Path": Milan Kundera, Philip Roth, and the Idea of Being Traditionally New'
James, D., 2012, The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction. James, D. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, p. 133-150
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
'A Renaissance for the Crystalline Novel?'
James, D., 2012, In: Contemporary Literature. 53, 4, p. 845-874
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

7 Citations (Scopus)
'John Burnside's Ecologies of Solace: Regional Environmentalism and the Consolations of Description'
James, D., 2012, In: MFS - Modern Fiction Studies. 58, 3, p. 600-615
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

5 Citations (Scopus)
'Late Ballard'
James, D., 2012, J. G. Ballard: Visions and Revisions. Baxter, J. & Wymer, R. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 160-177
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Modernist Futures
James, D., 2012, Cambridge University Press.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
'Spaces and Places: Around the Globe'
James, D., 2012, The Cambridge History of the English Novel. Caserio, R. & Hawes, C. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, p. 500-516
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
'"Style is Morality"? Aesthetics and Politics in the Amis Era'
James, D., 2012, In: Textual Practice. p. 11-25
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

3 Citations (Scopus)
The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
James, D. (Editor), 2012, Cambridge University Press.
Research output: Book/Report › Anthology
2011

'Dusklands'
James, D., 2011, A Companion to the Works of J. M. Coetzee. Mehigan, T. (ed.). Boydell & Brewer, p. 39-55
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
'Integrity after Metafiction'
James, D., 2011, In: Twentieth Century Literature. 57, 3, p. 492-515
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

4 Citations (Scopus)
2010

'Hearing Hardy: Soundscapes and the Profitable Reader'
James, D., 2010, In: Journal of Narrative Theory. 40, 2, p. 131-155
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
'Modernist Narratives: Revisions and Re-readings'
James, D., 2010, The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms. Brooker, P., Gasiorek, A., Longworth, D. & Thacker, A. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 85-107
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2009

'Artifice and Absorption: The Modesty of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day'
James, D., 2009, Kazuo Ishiguro: Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Matthews, S. & Groes, S. (eds.). Bloomsbury, p. 54-66
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
'Localizing Late Modernism: Interwar Regionalism and the Genesis of the "Micro Novel"'
James, D., 2009, In: Journal of Modern Literature. p. 43-64
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
'Quotidian Mnemonics: Graham Swift and the Rhetoric of Remembrance'
James, D., 2009, In: Critique. 50, 2, p. 131-154
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

6 Citations (Scopus)
2008

'By Thrifty Design: Ford's Bequest and Coetzee's Homage'
James, D., 2008, In: International Ford Madox Ford Studies. 7, p. 243-265
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
James, D., 2008, Bloomsbury.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
2007

'"As He Stalks His Pillar to the Dispossessed": Confessions of the Cryptographer'
James, D., 2007, City Visions: The Work of Iain Sinclair. Bavidge, J. & Bond, R. (eds.). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 148-161
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
'The (W)hole Affect: Creative Reading and Typographic Immersion in Albert Angelo'
James, D., 2007, Rereading B. S. Johnson. Tew, P. & White, G. (eds.). p. 27-37
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

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