About

Mark Storey is an Associate Professor, and teaches on the English and Comparative Literary Studies programmes. His research and teaching interests lie broadly in American literature since the nineteenth century.

Research interests

In general, American writing from the nineteenth century to the present. More specifically my current research focusses on American imperialism, analogy, and historical time, in a monograph project (still ongoing) provisionally called Roma Redux: Time, Antiquity, and the Cultures of US Imperialism.

My first book, Rural Fictions, Urban Realities: A Geography of Gilded Age American Literature (OUP, 2013), examined the effects of late nineteenth-century modernisation and urbanisation on the literary representation of rural America, and argued for a reconceptualisation of 'American regionalism'. I still sometimes write about this, and my essay 'Local Color, World-System; or, American Realism at the Periphery' is forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of American Realism.

Teaching and supervision

In 2018-19 I am teaching some seminars on the first-year module Modern World Literatures, and at honours level will be convening Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and, with my colleague Stephen Shapiro, co-teaching American Horror Story: U.S. Gothic Cultures, 1790-Present. I also supervise dissertations in the field of American literature. At postgraduate level I supervise relevant student research at MA and PhD level.

I am happy to consider dissertation and thesis proposals in my fields of interest.

Selected publications

[For a full list see 'Publications' above]

Books

• Rural Fictions, Urban Realities: A Geography of Gilded Age American Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Recent essays

• 'Sarah Orne Jewett's Foreign Correspondence' in The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing, ed. Celeste-Marie Bernier, Matthew Pethers, and Judie Newman (2016).

• 'Ben-Hur and the Spectacle of Empire'. Studies in American Fiction, 42.1 (Spring 2015).

• 'Spectacular Distractions: P.T. Barnum and American Modernism'. Modernism/modernity. 21.1 (Jan 2014).