Research Details
Subject Area: English literature and creative writing
Supervisor: Prof Daniel Williams and Julian Preece
Research degree: PhD
Thesis Title: Raymond Williams and European Thought
Raymond Williams and European Thought
Research Synopsis
I am investigating the influence of 20th century European Marxism on the work of the Welsh cultural critic Raymond Williams. My research in particularly focuses on the philosophical and aesthetic intersections between Williams’s pioneering critical work, his novels, and the work of Lukacs, Sartre and Gramsci, three prominent figures within the Western Marxist tradition.
Publications
No peer-reviewed academic publications at present. Article entitled ‘In Defence of Interesting Times’ forthcoming (2017) in the online edition of Planet: The Welsh Internationalist
