Professor Martin A Kayman
Overview
Position:
Head of School
Email:
KaymanM@cf.ac.uk Telephone: +44(0)29 208 76049
Fax: +44(0)29 208 74502
Extension: 76049
Location: Humanities Extension, Colum Drive, Cathays, Cardiff
Research Group
English Literature / Critical and Cultural Theory
Postgraduate Students
I would welcome applications from prospective research students with interests in literary and cultural history and theory, particularly in the politics of English in the world, eighteenth-century culture, nineteenth-century detective fiction, modernism, and all aspects of 'law-and-literature'.
Research Interests
Law and Literature, eighteenth-century culture, crime fiction, the culture of police, the cultural politics of English, globalisation.
Selected Publications
From Bow Street to Baker Street: Mystery, Detection and Narrative. London: Macmillan, 1992. pp viii, 269.
The Modernism of Ezra Pound: the Science of Poetry. London: Macmillan, 1986. pp xv, 199.
‘A Memorial for Jeremy Bentham: Memory, Fiction, and Writing the Law.’ Law and Critique. XVI. 1 (2004): 207-29.
‘The “New Sort of Speciality” and the “New Province of Writing”: Bank Notes, Fiction and the Law in Tom Jones.’ ELH. 68 (2001): 633-53.
‘The state of English as a global language: communicating culture.’ Textual Practice. 18. 1 (2004): 1-22.
‘Only One Subject? Englishes in Continental Europe.’ English: The Condition of the Subject. Ed. Philip W. Martin. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007, 21-33.
Publications
Law and Literature
‘Literature vs. the Law.’ Autonomy and Engagement in Literature at the Two Fins de Siècle, 1900 and 2000. Eds Liesbeth Korthals Altes, Gillis Dorleijn and Ralf Grüttemeier. Leuven Peeters, forthcoming.
[with Greta Olson]. ‘Introduction: From “Law-and-Literature” to “Law, Literature, and Language”: A Comparative Approach.’ European Journal of English Studies 11, no. 1 (2007): 1-15.
'A Memorial for Jeremy Bentham: Memory, Fiction, and Writing the Law.’ Law and Critique. XV. 3 (2004): 207-29.
‘The Englishness of the English Novel and “The Glory of the English Law”.’ British and American Studies. X (2004): 225-36. (Timisoara: Universitatii de Vest.)
‘Trials of Law and Language: Caleb Williams and John Horne Tooke.’ In the Grip of Law: Trials, Prisons and the Space Between. Eds Monika Fludernik and Greta Olson. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2004. 83-104.
‘Law-and-Literature: Questions of Jurisdiction.’ REAL Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature 18: Law and Literature. Ed. Brook Thomas. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2002. 1-20.
‘The “New Sort of Speciality” and the “New Province of Writing”: Bank Notes, Fiction and the Law in Tom Jones.’ ELH. 68 (2001): 633-53.
‘The Reader and the Jury: Legal Fictions and the Making of Commercial Law in Eighteenth-Century England.’ Eighteenth-Century Fiction. 9. 4 (1997): 373-94.
‘Lawful Writing: Common Law, Statute and the Properties of Literature.’ New Literary History. 27. 4 (1996): 761-83.
Crime Fiction
‘The Short Story from Poe to Chesterton.’ Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction. Ed. Martin Priestman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 41-58.
From Bow Street to Baker Street: Mystery, Detection and Narrative. London: Macmillan, 1992. pp viii, 269.
Modernism
The Modernism of Ezra Pound: the Science of Poetry. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. pp xv, 199.
English in the World
‘“America Again?” Locating “Global Culture”.’ Estudos Em Homenagem a Margarida Losa, eds Ana Luísa Amaral and Gualter Cunha. Oporto: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 2006. 239-49.
‘Only One Subject? Englishes in Continental Europe.’ English: The Condition of the Subject. Ed. Philip W. Martin. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006. 21-33.
[with Angela Locatelli and Ansgar Nünning.]‘Editorial: On Being European in English.’ European Journal of English Studies. 10. 1 (2006): 1-12.
‘A Survey of English Studies in Europe at the Turn of the Century.’ [PDF 80 KB] European English Messenger. 14. 1 (2005): 15-30. (Report on a survey conducted with the assistance of Filomena Mesquita for the European Society for the Study of English and the British Council.)
‘English Studies in Europe: Past, Present, and Future.’ The European English Messenger. 13. 2 (2004): 8-10.
‘The state of English as a global language: communicating culture.’ Textual Practice. 18. 1 (2004): 1-22.
‘A Very Old Alliance? An Introduction to English in Portugal.’ European English Studies: Contributions towards the History of a Discipline. Eds Balz Engler and Renate Haas. The English Association for the European Society for the Study of English, 2000. 13-32.
‘On Difference and Difficulty: Theorizing English in Europe.’ European Journal of English Studies. 1. 1 (1997): 10-32.
Research
With a background in Ezra Pound, science and literature and the politics of Modernism, my research is currently focused in two areas. My interests in ‘law-and-literature’ embraces issues of fictionality, writing and authority at a theoretical level, along with a particular attention to how such issues are articulated during the crucial period of the eighteenth century, as well as to how they are dealt with in narratives of crime in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. My second major area of research interest concerns both theoretical and historical issues in the cultural politics of English and, particularly, English Studies in Europe.
I am presently working on a study of the postmodern authority of the ‘corpus’ in law, literature and theory, and on the historical and theoretical relations between law and literature in the eighteenth century – while continuing to explore issues relating to what might characterise ‘European’ English Studies.
Biography
I took both my undergraduate degree and my PhD at the University of York. Following a long period working at Coimbra University, Portugal, where I was Director of the Institute for English Studies and chair of the Department of Anglo-American Studies, I moved to Cardiff in 2000.
I am currently one of the three general editors of The European Journal of English Studies. Previously, I was, from 1998 to 2003, the editor of The European English Messenger, the newsletter of the European Society for the Study of English. In 2005, on behalf of the European Society for the Study of English and the British Council, I completed a Survey of English Studies in Europe.
At Cardiff, I teach on both the Cultural Criticism and English Literature degrees, covering topics such as the ‘The Power of English’, ‘Globalisation’, ‘The Turn of the Century’, ‘Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction’, ‘Policing Culture’, and, at MA level, ‘Credit and Commerce in Eighteenth-Century Literature’.
I am currently Head of the Cardiff School of English, Communication, and Philosophy and Chair of the Cardiff Humanities Research Institute board.