The Modern Literature and Theory Research Group brings together scholars in the School who work on modernism, late modernism, contemporary literature, poetics and literary theory.

The Group holds workshops, reading groups, seminars and, with a large and active cohort of research students and postdoctoral students, also hosts regular conferences.

Recent activity from group members

Stephen Benson recently published 'Fairy-tale Opera and the Crossed Desires of Words and Music',Contemporary Music Review 29.2 (2010):
171-82. His essay 'Contemporary Fiction and Narratorial Acoustics: Graham Swift's Tomorrow' will appear inTextual Practice 25.3 (2011):
591-608. 'Beckett's Audiobooks' will appear in the Yearbook of English Studies.

Amit Chaudhuri's essay, ‘The Alien Face of Cosmopolitanism', appeared in The Indian Postcolonial: A Critical Reader, ed. Elleke Boehmer and Rosinka Chaudhuri (London: Routledge, 2010), pp. 287-96. His keynote speech at the Swiss Association of University Teachers of English conference was published in Performing the Self, ed. Karen Junod and Didier Maillat (Tübingen: Narr, 2010), pp. 91-100. 

Holly Maples published ‘The Past is Myself: The Politics of Commemoration and the Irish National Theatre Society', in Memory Ireland, Volume 1: History and Modernity, ed. Oona Frawley (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2010). 

Lyndsey Stonebridge's essay ‘Refugee Style: Hannah Arendt and the Perplexities of Rights' first appeared in iFirst format in Textual Practice in September 2010 (and is now published as Textual Practice 25.1 (2011): 71-85). Lyndsey has an essay, ‘A Love of Beginnings: Henry Moore and Psychoanalysis', in Henry Moore, ed. Chris Stephens (London: Tate Publishing, 2010), the catalogue accompanying the Tate Britain Retrospective. The Judicial Imagination: Writing After Nuremberg is due out in June with Edinburgh University Press.

Rachel Potter co-edited (with Suzanne Hobson) The Salt Companion to Mina Loy (Cambridge: Salt, 2010).