1001 Books: You Must Read Before You Die
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James Harrison (JHa) is a writer and book editor who now only reads hardbacks with large type and generous spacing. Thus, he has read (with pleasure) Cervantes’s Don Quixote and Gore Vidal’s Palimpsest.
Doug Haynes (DH) is a Lecturer in American Literature at Sussex University. He specializes in late twentieth-century American writing. He has published work on the novelists Thomas Pynchon and William Burroughs and has written on Surrealist black humor.
Thomas Healy (TH) is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of three critical studies, editor of two collections of essays, and co-editor of The Arnold Anthology of British and Irish Literature in English.
Jon Hughes (JH) is a Lecturer in German at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of a monograph on the work of Joseph Roth, and has published on twentieth-century German/Austrian literature and film.
Rowland Hughes (RH) is a Lecturer in English literature at the University of Hertfordshire, where he teaches literature from the Renaissance to today. His interests lie in eighteenth and nineteenth-century American literature and Anglo-American cinema.
Jessica Hurley (JHu) is a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in contemporary American and British fiction, performance, and theory.
Haewon Hwang (HH) When studying Russian literature, Haewon was forewarned that she would end up a plumber. She is now gladly exploring sewers in the course of researching underground spaces.
Bianca Jackson (BJ) is a doctoral candidate writing on the sexually dissident subject in contemporary Indian Anglophone literature at the University of Oxford.
David James (DJ) is associate tutor in the Department of English at the University of Sussex, where he wrote a DPhil on the evolution of a poetics of place and perception in British fiction from 1970 to the present.
Dr. Meg Jensen (MJ) is Head of the Department of Creative Writing at Kingston University, where she also lectures on nineteenth and twentieth-century English and American literature.
Iva Jevtic (IJ)
Carole Jones (CJ) teaches in the School of English, Trinity College. She has published articles on Scottish fiction and the representation of masculinity in recent writing.
Gwenyth Jones (GJ) lives in London, where she has recently completed a PhD on the literature of Budapest and teaches Hungarian literature to undergraduates.
Thomas Jones (TEJ) is an editor at the London Review of Books.
Hannah Jordan (HJ) is a freelance writer and critic. She is working on a children’s novel, entitled A Bohemian Christmas.
Jinan Joudeh (JLSJ) has studied English and American Literature at Duke, Sussex, and Yale universities. She is currently working on modernist American fiction in the context of friendship, marriage, and theory.
Lara Kavanagh (LK) is currently completing an MA in Twentieth Century Literature at King’s.
Christine Kerr (CK) was born in England and received her PhD from the University of Sussex. She has taught English literature in Europe, Africa, and Asia and is a faculty member at Champlain College in Montréal.
Kumiko Kiuchi (KK) is a DPhil student in the English Literature Department at the University of Sussex. She was awarded her BA and one of her MAs in Japan. Her research interests include the problem of translation, modernism, the philosophy of language, and the work of Samuel Beckett.
Joanna Kosty (JK)
Andrea Kowalski (AK) is a journalist working for the BBC World Service. In 2000, she received a Masters degree from the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) in London.
Katya Krylova (KKr) is a PhD student in the Department of German at Cambridge University. Specializing in post-war German literature, her thesis focuses on the legacy of the Second World War, topography and identity in the works of Ingeborg Bachmann and Thomas Bernhard.
Karl Lampl (KL) was born in Lilienfeld, Austria and studied at the University of Vienna. After moving to Canada he settled in Montreal, where he graduated from Concordia University.
Laura Lankester (LL) has a MA in English Literature from University College London. She currently works for a London publisher and writes reviews.
Anthony Leaker (AL) is studying twentieth-century America and European literature. He has taught at the University of Paris.
Vicky Lebeau (VL) is Reader in English at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Lost Angels: psychoanalysis and cinema (1995), Psychoanalysis and cinema: the play of shadows (2001).
Hoyul Lee (Hoy)
Maria Lopes da Silva (ML) specializes in critical theory and Portuguese, Brazilian, and Lusophone African literature. She received a MA from the University of Cambridge and is completing a PhD on Florbela Espanca.
Sophie Lucas (SL) studied Philosophy at the University of Bordeaux. Based in Paris, she now teaches French as a foreign language.
Graeme Macdonald (GM) is Lecturer in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at The University of Warwick, England.
Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson (HM) is Reader in North American literature at the University of Central Lancashire. She is the author of Women’s Movement (2000) and the co-editor of Transatlantic Studies (2000), and Britain and the Americas (2005).
Martha Magor (MaM)
Muireann Maguire (MuM)
José-Carlos Mainer (JCM) is Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Zaragoza. Among his publications are The Silver Age 1902–1939 (1975, re-edited in 1987), Modernism and 98 (1979), History, Literature, Society (1990), Uncontrolled Literature (2000), and Philology in Purgatory (2003).
Peter Manson (PM)
Laura Marcus (LM) is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. She has published on nineteenth and twentieth-century literature. She has co-edited The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature.
Victoria Margree (VM) received her DPhil in English Literature from the University of Sussex. She lectures at Sussex and the University of Brighton.
Nicky Marsh (NM) works at the University of Southampton, where she is director of the Center for Cultural Poetics. Her published work has appeared in journals including New Formations, Postmodern Culture, Feminist Review, and Wasafari.
Louise Marshall (LMar) is a Lecturer in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature at the University of Wales. Her research focuses on drama. Louise’s passion for eighteenth-century literature developed as an undergrad as a result of her first encounter with Smollet’s Humphrey Clinker.
Rosalie Marshall (RMa) has a BA in French and Scandinavian Studies, and she has returned to higher education to do a PhD in French Caribbean Literature. Her career has included teaching modern languages.
Andrew Maunder (AM)
Maren Meinhardt (MM) is Science and Psychology Editor at the Times Literary
Supplement. She is writing a biography of Alexander von Humboldt.
Dr. Ronan McDonald (RM) is Director of the Samuel Beckett International Foundation and Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Reading. His publications include Tragedy and Irish Literature (2002) and the Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Beckett (2005), as well as articles and reviews.
Dr. Patricia McManus (PMcM) teaches courses on English literary and cultural history at the University of Sussex. She is currently writing a book on the English novel from 1920–1940.
Geoffrey Mills (GMi) studied English at Reading and London Universities and currently works as an English teacher in Worcestershire. He writes both poetry and prose, some of which has been published.
Drew Milne (DM) is the Judith E. Wilson Lecturer in Drama and Poetry, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. He has edited Marxist Literary Theory and Modern Critical Thought. His novel is entitled The Prada Meinhof Gang.
Jacob Moerman (JaM)
Pauline Morgan (PMB) completed a doctoral thesis on Elizabeth Bowen at the University of Sussex. Her literary research has explored psychoanalysis, ghosts, and music.<
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Jonathan Morton (JM) is a History teacher living in Oxford. He writes poetry, plays music, and makes short films and documentaries. He studied History and English literature and creative writing at U.E.A in Norwich and did an MA in Modern European History.
Domingo Ródenas de Moya (DRM) is Professor of Spanish and European Literature at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. He has published The Mirrors of the Novelist and has edited many contemporary classics.
Alan Munton (AMu) is Archivist at the University of Plymouth, and a Lecturer in English. His Cambridge doctorate on Wyndham Lewis featured the first full discussion of Lewis’ The Childermass, summarized here.
Robin Musumeci (RMu)
Salvatore Musumeci (SMu) received a Masters degree in history from Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut). He is currently completing a PhD dissertation at Queen Mary, University of London.
Paul Myerscough (PMy) is an editor at the London Review of Books.
Stratos C. Myrogiannis (SMy) received his MPhil from the University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and started his PhD on the Greek Enlightenment at Cambridge in 2005.
María Ángeles Naval (MAN) is a Professor at the Department of Spanish Philology (Spanish and Hispanic Literatures) of the University of Zaragoza. Her research has concentrated on the Spanish literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and in particular on poetry since 1868.
Stephanie Newell (SN) lectures in postcolonial literature at the University of Sussex. She specializes in West African literature and African popular culture, and her publications include Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana: “How to Play the Game of Life”, West African Literatures: Ways of Reading.
Julian Patrick (JP) is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto where he teaches early modern literature, literary theory, and psychoanalysis in the Department of English and the Literary Studies Program. He is also working on the overlap between traditional mimesis and new-style representation in early modern literature.
Andrew Pepper (AP) is a Lecturer in English and American literature at Queen’s University Belfast. He is the author of The Contemporary American Crime Novel (2000) and the co-author of American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film (2005). His first novel is The Last Days of Newgate.
Irma Perttula (IP) is researching the grotesque and carnivalization in Finnish literature. She teaches Finnish literature courses at the University of Helsinki and the Open University.
Roberta Piazza (RPi) is a Lecturer in Modern Languages at the University of Sussex, where she has taught translation and modern Italian and European literatures. After completing an American doctorate and an MPhil in Linguistics, she is now working on a DPhil on the dialogue of Italian cinema.
Fiona Plowman (FP) studied English literature at the University of London. She is a former commissioning editor and reviewer for The Good Book Guide magazine. She currently works as a freelance editor and writer.
David Punter (DP) is Professor of English at the University of Bristol, where he is also Research Director for the Faculty of Arts. He has published extensively on Gothic and Romantic literature; on contemporary writing; and on literary theory, psychoanalysis, and the postcolonial, as well as four small volumes of poetry.
Robin Purves (RP) is a Lecturer in English literature at the University of Central Lancashire. He has published articles on nineteenth-century French writing, contemporary poetry and philosophy, and co-edited a special issue of the Edinburgh Review. Along with Peter Manson, he runs a press, Object Permanence.
Vincent Quinn (VQ)
Santiago del Rey (SR) is an editor, cultural journalist, and literary critic.
Vera Rich (VR) is a writer and translator, specializing in the literature of Ukraine and Belarus. She is a former General Secretary of the Anglo-Ukrainian Society and Deputy Editor of The Ukrainian Review.
Oscar Rickett (OR) is a freelance writer and amateur clarinetist from London. He has written on twentieth-century American literature, nineteenth-century English literature, and modern Argentina.
Dr. Ben Roberts (BR) teaches at the University of Bradford. His main areas of interest are cultural theories of technology and counterfeit money in literature.
Dr. Anne Rowe (AR) is a Senior Lecturer at Kingston University. She is the author of Salvation by Art: The Visual Arts and the Novels of Iris Murdoch and is also the Director of the Center for Iris Murdoch Studies at Kingston University. In addition to her teaching, she is the European Director of the Iris Murdoch Society and European Editor of the Iris Murdoch News Letter.
Nicholas Royle (NWor) is Professor of English Literature at the University of Sussex. His major works include E. M. Forster (1999) and The Uncanny (2003). He is joint editor of the Oxford Literary Review.
David Rush (DR)
Martin Ryle (MR) teaches English and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, and has particular research interests in Irish writing and contemporary fiction. His critical writing includes work on George Gissing and Michel Houellebecq.
Darrow Schecter (DSch) completed a doctorate on Antonio Gramsci at the University of Oxford. He was a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow, and is currently a Reader in Intellectual History in the School of Humanities at the University of Sussex. He has written several books on the subjects of European intellectual history and political theory.
Tobias Selin (TSe) was born in Sweden and studied Mechanical Engineering and the Philosophy of Science. After working as an editor in London for a couple of years, he returned to Sweden and currently works in engineering.
Christina Sevdali (CSe) is currently finishing her PhD in Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. Her first degree was in Ancient and Modern Greek literature. She enjoys writing about cinema and singing jazz.
Elaine Shatenstein (ES) is a freelance book reviewer, newspaper columnist, and feature writer, as well as a guest speaker for literary groups, a writing instructor, and an editor. She has previously worked in broadcasting and film as a writer and producer, and was published in an anthology of social satire.
John Shire (JS) is a writer and photographer, and his short fiction has appeared in a number of U.K. and U.S. publications. In addition to this work, he has a virtual hand in two websites; www.libraryofthesphinx.co.uk and Invocations Press. Sadly, a degree in English Literature and Philosophy.
Tom Smith (TS) is a Lecturer at the Faculty of International Business, in the University of Applied Sciences Furtwangen. His short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies and he has also won an Ian St. James Award. He already has an MA in Creative Writing and is currently working toward a DPhil at Sussex University.
Daniel Soar (DSoa) works as an editor at the London Review of Books.
Matthew Sperling (MS)
David Steuer (DS)
Simon Stevenson (SS) is an Assistant Professor of English at National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan where he teaches literature and literary theory.
Esther MacCallum Stewart (EMcCS)
Luis Sundqvist (LS)
Céline Surprenant (CS) is a Senior Lecturer in French in the English Department at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Freud’s Mass Psychology: Questions of Scale (2003). She has also translated Jean-Luc Nancy’s The Speculative Remark (2001).
Theodora Sutcliffe (TSu) is a journalist and copywriter who also writes fiction.
Julie Sutherland (JuS) completed her PhD in English studies and seventeenth-century studies at the University of Durham. She was born in Canada and returned there to become Professor of Early Modern Drama at Atlantic Baptist University.
Keston Sutherland (KS) is a Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Antifreeze, The Rictus Flag, Neutrality and several other books of poetry. He edits the occult leftist journal Quid, the Q? series of noise and rant CD-Rs, and co-edits Barque Press.
Bharat Tandon (BT) is College Lector and Director of Studies in English Literature at Jesus College, Cambridge, and teaches Br
itish and American literature. Aside from his teaching duties, he writes regularly on contemporary British and American fiction and cinema for the Times Literary Supplement and the Daily Telegraph.
Jenny Bourne Taylor (JBT) is a Reader in English at the University of Sussex. She has written extensively on nineteenth-century literature and culture. She has edited George Gissing: Voices of the Unclassed (2005), ans The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins (2006).
Philip Terry (PT)
Samuel Thomas (SamT) completed his DPhil in English Literature at the University of Sussex. His research interests include Thomas Pynchon, the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, and contemporary Eastern European writing.
Sophie Thomas (ST) is a Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex, where she teaches a range of subjects, including eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature, and on MA programs in Critical Theory, and Literature and Visual Culture.
Dale Townshend (DaleT) is Thesia Stuftung Research Fellow in the Department of English Studies at the University of Stirling. He has co-edited four volumes in the Gothic: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies series (2004). His monograph, The Orders of Gothic, is published by AMS Press.
David Towsey (DT) is a Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford University, and he also teaches for the Oxford University Department of Continuing Education. He has published on literary theory and Romantic literature, and is currently working on late Victorian and Edwardian writings as part of a larger study of Walter de la Mare’s short stories.
David Tucker (DTu)
Garth Twa (GT) is the author of a short story collection called Durable Beauty. He is also an award-winning filmmaker, and is currently hard at work on his second book, My Ice Age, which describes both his youth in an Eskimo settlement on the Arctic Circle and his years struggling on the outer fringes of Hollywood.
Miriam van der Valk (MvdV) gained an MA in Philosophy at Amsterdam University, specializing in the theory of psychoanalysis and feminist politics.
Cedric Watts (CW) is Research Professor of English Literature at the University of Sussex. His many publications include books on Shakespeare, Keats, Cunninghame Graham, Joseph Conrad, and Graham Greene. He is also the co-author (along with John Sutherland) of Henry V, War Criminal? and Other Shakespeare Puzzles.