Nick Lawrence
General
American literary and cultural studies, modern and contemporary writing, critical theory, world literature.
Research interests
American literature and culture from the nineteenth century to the present, especially within an international context; Hawthorne and Whitman; Marxism, the Frankfurt School and critical media theory; post-9/11 literary and graphic culture; contemporary avant-garde poetry and poetics. Articles on Whitman, Hawthorne, Frank O'Hara, and C21 graphic narrative. Current research focuses on Whitman, the world literature debates, and the origins of modernism; C19 and C20 literary collaboration; and international relations in global modernist poetics.
Selected publications
How to Read Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment (Pluto Press, forthcoming)
"General Introduction." The Collected Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming)
Co-editor, with Marta Werner, Ordinary Mysteries: The Common Journal of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne (American Philosophical Society, 2006)
"Frank O’Hara in New York: Race Relations, Poetic Situations, Postcolonial Space” (Comparative American Studies 4.1, 2006)
Co-editor, with Kristin Dykstra,
North American Language Poetries, 1965–2000 (Havana: Casa de Letras, 2005)
Editor, special feature on Language poet Bruce Andrews, Jacket 22 (jacketmagazine.com/22/)
"World Echoes: Caribbeanness as Method" (Xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics 12, 2003)
Teaching and supervision
US Writing and Culture, 1780-1920
States of Damage: C21 US Writing and Culture
Writing and Revolution: Studies in World Literature
I have supervised postgraduate work on urban form and literary representation in New York and Istanbul, and on Thomas Pynchon and late capitalist US fiction. I welcome supervisions in the areas listed under my research interests, above.
Associate Professor
H535; ext. 23309; n.lawrence@warwick.ac.uk
Office hours: Mondays 3-4; Tuesdays 12-1
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