Dr Dave Gunning BA, MA, PhD

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Department of English Literature
Reader in English Literature

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 2763
Email
d.r.gunning@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
Address
Arts Building, Room 117
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

I teach and research contemporary Anglophone literature and postcolonial studies.

Qualifications

  • BA English and Philosophy (Manchester)
  • MA Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature  (Leeds)
  • PhD English (Leeds)
  • Postgraduate Certificate of Academic Practice (Birmingham)

Biography

I joined the University 麻豆精选 in 2007, having previously held a lectureship in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Leeds.

Teaching

I’ll be convening four modules in the 2018-19 academic year: New World Orders? at second-year, which looks at Anglophone literature between 1945 and 1999; the final-year Professional Skills in English Literature which allows students to spend time on placement outside the University, the specialist study option Last Year’s Novels, looking at Anglophone fiction published in 2017; and the MA module Contemporary Literature. 

Postgraduate supervision

I welcome applications for PhD study in the area of 21st-century Anglophone literature.

Current and former PhD supervisions in which I鈥檝e been involved include:

A micro-history of black Handsworth
Local and global identities in the contemporary Irish novel
Arab-American Drama
Narrative and Identity in the fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro
Feminisms in the New Nigerian Novel
The marketing of mixed-race identity in British publishing
Gender Politics in expatriate Arabian Gulf fiction
Douglas Coupland and the transnational
Derek Walcott and the pastoral mode
Contemporary Caribbean Poetics
The textual spaces of Afropolitanism

Find out more - our PhD English Literature  page has information about doctoral research at the University 麻豆精选.

Research

My current research includes work on the essay as political form, the nature and development of the postcolonial Bildungsroman, and the novel as space of sanctuary: linking these is a concern with how formal innovation allows for political and ethical exploration.

Other activities

I am Head of Education for the School of English, Drama, and American & Canadian Studies.

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Gunning, D 2013, . Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.

Gunning, D 2010, . Liverpool University Press.

Article

Gunning, D 2015, '', Research in African Literatures, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 119-132. <>

Gunning, D 2015, '', The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 133-149.

Gunning, D 2012, '', Contemporary Literature, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 779-813. <>

Gunning, D 2012, '', Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 126-135.

Chapter

Gunning, D 2014, . in J Baxter & D James (eds), Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Persepectives. Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 9-22.

Gunning, D 2013, . in N Birns (ed.), Cultural Encounters. Salem Press, Ipswich, MA, pp. 304-321.

Gunning, D 2012, . in B Ledent & D Tunca (eds), Caryl Phillips: Writing in the Key of Life. Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 359-374.

Gunning, D 2011, . in L Evans, M McWatt & E Smith (eds), The Caribbean Short Story: Critical Perspectives. Peepal Tree Press, Leeds, pp. 141-154.

Gunning, D 2011, . in A Oboe & S Bassi (eds), Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures. 1st edn, Routledge, London, pp. 141-150.

Gunning, D 2010, . in P Brooker, A Gasiorek, D Longworth & A Thacker (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms. Oxford handbooks, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 910-925.

Gunning, D 2010, . in W Zach & U Pallua (eds), Racism, Slavery and Literature. Peter Lang, Frankfurt, pp. 47-59.

Gunning, D 2009, . in M Joseph-Vilain & J Misrahi-Barak (eds), Postcolonial Ghosts: With poems by Gerry Turcotte. Les Carnets du Cerpac, vol. 8, Presses Universitaires de la Mediterranee, Montpellier, pp. 305-321.

Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

Gunning, D 2009, . in RV Arana (ed.), Twenty-First-Century "Black" British Writers . vol. 347, Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 347, Gale/Cengage Learning, Detroit, pp. 65-73.

Expertise

Contemporary literature and culture, especially that of the postcolonial world and of minority communities in the UK

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