Dr Mark Storey
Associate Professor
Email: M dot J dot Storey at warwick dot ac dot uk
Humanities Building, University Road
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
About
Mark Storey is an Associate Professor and the department's Director of Teaching and Learning.
His research and teaching interests lie broadly in American literature. He was a founding member of the British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists (BrANCA), and has held fellowships at the University of Virginia and the Houghton Library at Harvard.
Research interests
In general, I write about and teach American writing and culture, particularly since the late nineteenth century.
My recent research has focused on cultures of American empire, and a project about the ways ancient Rome figures in the historical imagination of US imperialism is soon to appear in a forthcoming book from Oxford UP: Time and Antiquity in American Empire.
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'. A recent essay for the Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism represents an updated version of these arguments.
I am also developing new projects from my long-standing interest in gothic and horror. This includes provisional work on a monograph, and, with my colleague Stephen Shapiro, as editor on a forthcoming entry in the Cambridge Companions series: The Cambridge Companion to American Horror.
Teaching and supervision
In 2019-20 I will be convening Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and 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
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Rural Fictions, Urban Realities: A Geography of Gilded Age American Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Recent essays
- 'Local Color, World-System; or, American Realism at the Periphery' in The Oxford Handbook of American Realism, ed. Keith Newlin (2019)
- '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).
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'Ben-Hur and the Spectacle of Empire'. Studies in American Fiction, 42.1 (Spring 2015).
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'Spectacular Distractions: P.T. Barnum and American Modernism'. Modernism/modernity. 21.1 (Jan 2014).
Office hours
Officially, 11.00-12.00 on Tuesday and Thursday. But all office hours will be conducted in Teams this year, so it will often be easier for us to arrange a mutually convenient time between ourselves. If you wish to meet please email me.
Teaching
Undergraduate modules 2020-21
EN2D9/EN3D9: Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature
EN2H2/3H2 American Horror Story: US Gothic Cultures, 1790-Present