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DrDeborahLongworthBA,MA,PhD

SeniorLecturer
DepartmentofEnglishLiterature(/schools/edacs/departments/english/index.aspx)

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Emaild.l.longworth@bham.ac.uk(mailto:d.l.longworth@bham.ac.uk)
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About
IjoinedtheUniversityofBirminghamin1998,havingreceivedmyPh.D.fromBirkbeckCollege,UniversityofLondon,withathesisonwomen,thecityandtheconceptof
theflneuseinnineteenthandtwentieth-centuryEnglishandAmericanliterature.PreviouslyIstudiedattheUniversityofReading,whereItookaBAinEnglishLiterature
&Philosophy,andtheMALiteratureandtheVisualArts1840-1940.

Teaching
Iteachnineteenthandtwentieth-centuryliteratureatundergraduateandpostgraduatelevel.IofferfinalyearundergraduateoptionsmodulesinTheModernistNoveland
RemberingWorldWarOne.AtpostgraduatelevelIteachandsuperviseintheperiod1880-1940,withparticularspecialismsinmodernismandwomen'swriting.

Postgraduatesupervision
AtpostgraduatelevelIhavespecialistteachingandsupervisoryexpertiseinlatenineteenthandearlytwentieth-centuryliterature.
Iwelcomeapplicationsforstudyinthefollowingareas:
Literarymodernism
Thecityandurbantheory
Womenswriting(particularlyofthelatenineteenthandearlytwentiethcenturiesVirginiaWoolf,DorothyRichardson,DjunaBarnes,KatherineMansfield,May
Sinclair,EdithSitwell)
Thenineteenthand/orearlytwentieth-centurynovel

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Research
MyresearchfocusesonEnglishliteraturefrom1880-1940,withaspecificfocusongenderandmodernismandthemodernistnovel.Themonographdevelopedfrommy
doctoralthesis,StreetwalkingtheMetropolis,waspublishedbyOxfordUniversityPressin2000andisfrequentlyincludedinthereadinglistsforbothundergraduateand
postgraduatecoursesonmodernism,womenswritingandurbanliteratureinboththeUKandtheUnitedStates.IhavealsoproducedstudiesoftheAmericanwriterDjuna
Barnes(WritersandtheirWorksSeries:NorthcoteHouse)andastudyguidetargetedatfinal-yearandtaughtpostgraduatestudents,TheoristsoftheModernistNovel:
JamesJoyce,DorothyRichardsonandVirginiaWoolf(Routledge).RecentarticlesincludeadiscussionofmetaphysicsandtheinfluenceofRalphWaldoEmersonin
DorothyRichardsonsPilgrimage,andastudyoftheNewYorkmodernistmagazineRogue.
MyrecentresearchandcurrentmonographfocusesontheworkofEdith,OsbertandSacheverellSitwell.In2008IreceivedaHarryRansomMellonFellowshipandAHRC
researchleavegrantforstudyontheSitwells.DuringthepastyearIhavepresentedresearchpapersontheSitwellstotheUniversitiesofGlasgowandEdinburgh,the
NorthernModernismsSeminar,andtothe2010ModernistStudiesAssociationconferenceintheUnitedStates.
IamoneofthefoundingmembersoftheBritishAssociationofModernistStudies(http://www.bams.me.uk/),anorganizationdesignedtoprovidearesearchnetworkfor
individualsandgroupsworkinginmoderniststudiesinallrelevantdisciplinesacrossBritain.BAMSaimstofacilitateconnectionswithmodernistsabroad,andtosupport
anddevelopeducationandtraininginmoderniststudies,particularlyforpostgraduates.

Iamalsoco-founderandeditor,alongwithAndrzejGasiorek(/staff/profiles/english/gasiorek-andrzej.aspx)(Birmingham)andMichaelMoses(DukeUniversity),ofthe
journalModernistCultures(http://www.euppublishing.com/journal/mod),theonlyBritishjournalspecificallydedicatedtothestudyofmodernism.

Otheractivities
ConferenceOrganisation
Ihaveorganizedseveralinternationalconferencesandsymposiainthefieldofmoderniststudies.
Faade&TheSitwells,BarberArtGallery,UniversityofBirmingham,30thSeptember2011(includingeveningperformanceofPierrotLunaireandFaadebyThe
OrchestraofStPaulsandWilliamSitwell)
ResearchSkillsinModernistStudies,UniversityofBirmingham,31stMarch2010(One-dayseminarfor35doctoralstudents,onbehalfoftheBritishAssociation
ofModernistStudies(http://www.bams.me.uk/?q=events/postgrad/archive/bams_2010))
WoolfianBoundaries,16thAnnualInternationalVirginiaWoolfConference,UniversityofBirmingham,June22nd-25th2006(Four-dayconference,300delegatesco-hostwithSteveEllisandKathrynSimpson)
NorthernModernismsSeminar,UniversityofBirmingham,November2005(One-daysymposium,40delegatesco-hostwithAndrzejGasiorek).
FifthModernistStudiesAssociationConference,UniversityofBirmingham,25th-28thSeptember2003(Four-dayconference,250delegatesco-hostwithAndrzej
Gasiorek,LauraMarcusandPeterNicholls)
ModernistTransactions1880-1930,UniversityofBirmingham,30thJune-1stJuly2000(Two-daysymposium,40delegatesco-hostwithAndrzejGasiorek)
Literature,FilmandModernity1880-1940,UniversityofLondon,13th15thJanuary2000(co-hostwithLauraMarcus)

Publications
Books
TheoristsoftheModernistNovel:JamesJoyce,DorothyRichardsonandVirginiaWoolf(London:Routledge,2007)ISBN0415285429/7
DjunaBarnes(Plymouth:NorthcoteHousePress,2003)ISBN0746309449
ACulturalHistoryofMadrid:ModernismandtheUrbanSpectacle(Oxford:Berg,2003)ISBN1859736513
StreetwalkingtheMetropolis(Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,2000)ISBN:0198186835

Bookinprogress
TheSitwells:OrnamentalModernism(OxfordUniversityPress)

Editedbooks
TheOxfordHandbookofModernisms(eds),PeterBrooker,AndrzejGasiorek,DeborahLongworth,AndrewThacker(Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,2010)inpress

Contributionstoeditedworks
GenderingtheModernistText,inPeterBrooker,AndrzejGasiorek,DeborahLongworthandAndrewThacker(eds)TheOxfordHandbookofModernisms,(Oxford:
OxfordUniversityPress,2010)[9,500words]inpress
Beautyfortheeye,satireforthemind,depravityforthesenses!:Rogue,thePatagoniansandthePost-DecadentAvant-Garde,inPeterBrookerandAndrew
Thacker(eds),ACriticalandCulturalHistoryofModernistMagazines(Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,2010),[7,000words]inpress
RemembranceandReconstruction:AutobiographyandtheMenof1914,inMichaelWalsh(ed),London,Modernismand1914(Cambridge:CambridgeUniversity
Press,2009),pp.196-213,ISBN9780521195805[7,000words]
RememberScarborough:TheSitwellsontheSands,inLaraFeigelandAlexandraHarris(eds),ModernismonSea:ArtandCultureattheBritishSeaside(Oxford:
PeterLang,2009),pp.71-84,ISBN978-1906165246[5,000words]
GenderandModernism,inPhilipTewandAlexMurray(eds),TheModernismHandbook(London:Continuum,2009),pp.170-185,ISBN978-0826488435
Theresmorespacewithinthanwithout:AgoraphobiaandtheBildungsromaninDorothyRichardsonsPilgrimage,inGailCunninghamandStephenBarner(eds),
LondonEyes:ReflectionsinTextandImage(Oxford:Berghahn,2007)
DjunaBarnesBaroqueModernism,inMoragSchiach(ed),TheCambridgeCompaniontotheModernistNovel(Cambridge:CUP,2006)
Modernism,inFayeHammillandAshlieSponenberg(eds),EncyclopaediaofBritishWomensWriting1900-1950(London:Palgrave,2006)
DorothyRichardson,inFayeHammillandAshlieSponenberg(eds),EncyclopaediaofBritishWomensWriting1900-1950(London:Palgrave,2006)
WhirlpoolsofModernity:EuropeanNaturalismandtheUrbanPhantasmagoria,inJennyBourneTaylorandMartinRyle(eds),GeorgeGissing,1903-2003:Voices
oftheUnclassed(Hants:Ashgate,2005)
TraumaandWar-Memory,inLauraMarcusandPeterNicholls(eds),TheCambridgeHistoryofTwentieth-CenturyEnglishLiterature(Cambridge:Cambridge
UniversityPress,2005)
ShoppingfortheFuture:TheRe-enchantmentofBirminghamsUrbanSpace,inLiamKennedy(ed),RemakingBirmingham(London:Routledge,2004)
FiestaCultureinMadridPosters,1934-1955,inJoLabanyi(ed.),ConstructingIdentityinTwentieth-CenturySpain:TheoreticalDebatesandCulturalPractice
(OUP,2001)

Journalarticles
Subject,ObjectandtheNatureofReality:MetaphysicsinDorothyRichardsonsDeadlock,Pilgrimages:AJournalofDorothyRichardsonStudies
(http://web.mac.com/smccracken1/journal/index.html)(2009)
ParisisnotRome,orMadrid:LocatingtheCityofModernity,CriticalQuarterly44:2(2002),pp.17-29
FlneurorFlneuse?MythologiesofModernity,NewFormations:HatingTraditionProperly38(1999),pp.91-100
WomenintheCircusofModernity:DjunaBarnesandNightwood,Women:ACulturalReview9.3(1998),266-77.

Reviews
FayeHammill,'Sophistication:ALiteraryandCulturalHistory(http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=413279&sectioncode=26),THES
2September2010
RebeccaBeasley,EzraPoundandtheVisualCultureofModernism/EdwardComentaleandAndrzejGasiorek(eds).'T.E.HulmeandtheQuestionof
Modernism,TextualPractice23:3(2009),pp.513-19
TamarKatz,ImpressionistSubjects:Gender,Interiority,andModernFictioninEngland/ClareHanson,HystericalFictions:TheWoman'sNovelintheTwentieth
Century/LucieArmitt,ContemporaryWomen'sFictionandtheFantastic,TheModernLanguageReview,97:1(2002),pp.179-182

PhyllisLassner,BritishWomenWritersofWorldWarII:BattlegroundsofTheirOwn,TheModernLanguageReview95:2(2000),pp.488-489
SusanZlotnick,Women,Writing,andtheIndustrialRevolution,TheYearbookofEnglishStudies,Vol.31,NorthAmericanShortStoriesandShortFictions(2001),
pp.272-273
KarenSchneider,LovingArms:BritishWomenWritingtheSecondWorldWar,TheModernLanguageReview,93:4(1998),pp.1098-1099
SusanF.BeegelSusanShillinglawWesleyN.TiffneyJr.(eds),SteinbeckandtheEnvironment:InterdisciplinaryApproaches,TheModernLanguageReview,93:4
(1998),p.1096

Selectedadditionalpublications
TheUrbanObserver,catalogueessayforTheCamdenTownGroupOnlineResearchProject(TateGalleryforthcomingFebruary2011)
ResearchMethodologyintheArtsandHumanities.Postgraduateonlineresearchskillscourse,co-authoredwithHelenLaville,forEpigeumLimited
(http://www.epigeum.co.uk/)[ReceivedGoldLearningImpactawardattheinternationalIMSLearningImpactawards].Furtherdetailsatwww.epigeum.co.uk

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