Dr Chris Mourant BA, MA, PhD

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Department of English Literature
Lecturer in Early Twentieth-Century English Literature

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 415 8682
Email
c.mourant@bham.ac.uk
Address
Room G41, Arts Building
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

I research twentieth-century literature and culture, with particular focus on modernism and networks of transnational connection, communication, and exchange.

Qualifications

  • Fellow, Higher Education Academy (2019)
  • PhD, King’s College London (2015)
  • BA and MA, University of Warwick (2009 and 2010)

Biography

I studied English Literature at the University of Warwick before completing my PhD at King鈥檚 College London (with a year abroad studying at the University of Stuttgart and Universit茅 Sorbonne Nouvelle). After working as a Lecturer in English at Nottingham Trent University, I joined the University 麻豆精选 in 2016.聽

Teaching

I enjoy introducing students to works of prose fiction, especially modernist literature.

In years gone by, I have designed and delivered the following specialist option modules:

  • Modernism in the Magazines
  • The Modern Short Story
  • Single Author: Virginia Woolf.

Postgraduate supervision

I welcome enquires from prospective MRes and PhD students with research proposals relating to my areas of specialism.

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

Research

I research twentieth-century literature and culture, with particular focus on modernism and networks of transnational connection, communication, and exchange.

My work sits at the intersection between literary/media histories. I am especially interested in how writers responded to and shaped cultures of periodical publishing and radio broadcasting.

I have published extensively on the life and work of New Zealand-born writer (1888-1923), the subject of my first monograph. The novels of (1879-1970) are also a continuing research priority for me, alongside the work of associated authors such as Ford Madox Ford, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and George Orwell.

At present, for Cambridge University Press, I am producing a new scholarly edition of Forster鈥檚 final novel, A Passage to India (1924).

Other activities

I am president of the international .

Previously, I have served as co-director of the Centre for Modernist Cultures at the University 麻豆精选 (2017–23), co-editor of the journal  (2020–23), contributor of the section ‘Fiction 1900–30’ to (2021–23), and executive committee member of the (2013–15, 2017–19).

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Mourant, C & D'hoker, E (eds) 2021, . Edinburgh University Press. <>

Article

Mourant, C 2023, '', Journal of European Periodical Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 40-59.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Mourant, C 2020, . in T Martin (ed.), The Bloomsbury Handbook to Katherine Mansfield. Bloomsbury, London, pp. 199-213.

Chapter

Mourant, C 2024, . in G Kimber & A Gasston (eds), Katherine Mansfield's Women. Katherine Mansfield Studies, vol. 17, Edinburgh University Press.

Mourant, C 2024, . in G Kimber & A Gasston (eds), Katherine Mansfield and London. Katherine Mansfield Studies, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 39-60.

Mourant, C 2022, . in C Davison & G Kimber (eds), The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 2: Letters to Correspondents K 鈥� Z. The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, vol. 2, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 395-400.

Mourant, C 2022, . in C Davison & G Kimber (eds), The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 2: Letters to Correspondents K 鈥� Z. The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, vol. 2, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 437-444.

Mourant, C 2022, . in C Davison & G Kimber (eds), The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 2: Letters to Correspondents K 鈥� Z. The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, vol. 2, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 445鈥�465.

Mourant, C 2022, . in C Davison & G Kimber (eds), The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 2: Letters to Correspondents K 鈥� Z. The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, vol. 2, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 544-560.

Mourant, C 2022, . in C Davison & G Kimber (eds), The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Letters to Correspondents K 鈥� Z. vol. 2, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 376鈥�379.

D'hoker, E & Mourant, C 2021, . in E D'hoker & C Mourant (eds), The Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture, 1880鈥�1950. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 1-24.

Mourant, C 2020, . in A Gasston, G Kimber & J Wilson (eds), Katherine Mansfield: New Directions. 1 edn, Historicising Modernism, Bloomsbury, London, pp. 92-109. <>

Mourant, C 2020, . in C Davison & G Kimber (eds), The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Letters to Correspondents A 鈥� J. vol. 1, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 594-7.

Review article

Mourant, C 2023, '', The Year's Work in English Studies, vol. 102, no. 1, pp. 961-1070.

Ross, S, Mourant, C, Fischer, TM, Phillips, J, Parsons, K, Stringfellow, S, Rodr脥guez Mart脥n, GA, Saunders, G, Richards, J, Quin, J & Roach, R (ed.) 2022, '', The Year's Work in English Studies, vol. 101, no. 1, pp. 971-1083.