Thomas Docherty, MA Glasgow, DPhil Oxford - Professor

email:  t.docherty@warwick.ac.uk

Room H501

Thomas Docherty has published on most areas of English and comparative literature from the renaissance to the present day.  He specialises in the philosophy of literary criticsim, in critical theory, and in cultural history in relation primarily to European philosophy and literatures.  Books include Reading (Absent) Character; John Donne Undone; On Modern Authority; Postmodernism; After Theory; Alterities:  Criticism and Modernity.  A new book on Aesthetic Democracy is forthcoming.  He is currently engaged in research for a book on ‘the literate and humane university’.

Docherty supervises work on all aspects of critical theory, and has a particular interest in taking on doctoral projects involving contemporary French and Italian philosophy or Enlightenment studies.  Other areas of interest include:  European cinema, Scottish literature and culture, Irish literature, modernism and modernity, Beckett, Proust.