Supervisor: Professor Thomas Docherty

Mentor: Dr Christina Britzolakis

Thesis: The Child and Authority

My Research

My research centres on contemporary and recent literature and critical theory, although my broader interests cover British and American literature from the late nineteenth-century to the present. Particular concerns include the child in culture, including notions of the 'inner child' and the 'horror child'; critical, literary and philosophical responses to death; and the relation of literary authorship to 'authority'.

I have a strong interest in contemporary and recent writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, W.G. Sebald, Peter Ackroyd and Ian McEwan, and in novels from the fin-de-siecle to Modernism, especially Joseph Conrad and William Faulkner. Critics and theorists of interest include Arendt, Agamben, Moretti; and I have a broad focus on critique of historicism.

I hold a BA (First class) and an MA (Distinction), both in English Literature from the University of Warwick, and in addition to my doctoral work I am a professional research administrator with experience of delivery of an institutional submission to the Research Excellence Framework (REF), and I'm a member of the Association of Research Managers and Administrators (ARMA).

Current Projects

Current projects focus on the child in Kazuo Ishiguro and the contemporary use of Conrad texts and Conradian themes to gloss and interpret later authors.

Contact

Anyone with related research interests is very welcome to get in touch at d dot a dot dean@warwick.ac.uk

Dominic Dean

D dot A dot Dean at warwick dot ac dot uk