Dr Laura Wainwright
Overview
Position:
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email:
WainwrightL@cf.ac.uk Telephone: +44(0)29 208 76740
Extension: 76740
Location: Humanities Building, Colum Drive, Cathays, Cardiff
Research Group
Research Interests
Modernisms – especially marginal and regional Modernisms and alternative ‘modernities’; twentieth-century fiction and poetry; twentieth-century Welsh and Irish literature in English; Irish-Welsh cultural comparisons; relationships between literature and the visual arts.
Selected Publications
‘‘A hell of a howl’: Gwyn Thomas’s The Dark Philosophers and the ‘language of the cry’’, in Mapping the Territory: Critical Approaches to Welsh Fiction in English (Cardigan: Parthian, Library of Wales Series, 2010)
Spatializing Memory in Dannie Abse’s Poetry’, in Cary Archard (ed.), Dannie Abse: A Sourcebook (Bridgend: Seren, 2010)
‘Doesn’t that make you laugh?’: Modernist Comedy in Jean Rhys’s After Leaving Mr Mackenzie and Good Morning, Midnight’, in The Journal of International Women’s Studies Vol. 10 #3 (March 2009)
Review of Linden Peach, Contemporary Irish and Welsh Women’s Fiction: Gender, Desire and Power (2007), in Irish Studies Review Vol. 17 #1 (February 2009)
‘‘The huge upright Europe-reflecting mirror’: The European Dimension in the Early Short Stories and Poems of Glyn Jones’, in Almanac: Welsh Writing in English –A Yearbook of Critical Essays Vol. 12 (2008)
Publications
Recent Publications
‘‘A hell of a howl’: Gwyn Thomas’s The Dark Philosophers and the ‘language of the cry’’, in Mapping the Territory: Critical Approaches to Welsh Fiction in English (Cardigan: Parthian, Library of Wales Series, 2010)
Spatializing Memory in Dannie Abse’s Poetry’, in Cary Archard (ed.), Dannie Abse: A Sourcebook (Bridgend: Seren, 2010)
‘Doesn’t that make you laugh?’: Modernist Comedy in Jean Rhys’s After Leaving Mr Mackenzie and Good Morning, Midnight’, in The Journal of International Women’s Studies Vol. 10 #3 (March 2009)
Review of Linden Peach, Contemporary Irish and Welsh Women’s Fiction: Gender, Desire and Power (2007), in Irish Studies Review Vol. 17 #1 (February 2009)
‘‘The huge upright Europe-reflecting mirror’: The European Dimension in the Early Short Stories and Poems of Glyn Jones’, in Almanac: Welsh Writing in English –A Yearbook of Critical Essays Vol. 12 (2008)
Research
I have wide-ranging research interests in twentieth-century literature, but my primary focus is Modernism, especially marginal and regional Modernisms. My doctoral thesis, for example, which I am now converting into a monograph, concentrated on Modernist writing from Wales – a body of work that has been largely excluded from literary histories. Encompassing paintings, collage and film, as well as poetry, fiction and drama, my research to date reflects my particular concern with bringing literature into dialogue with the visual arts. I am also currently looking into cultural correspondences between Ireland and Wales, exploring the relationship between Modernism and cultural revivalism in these two countries in the early twentieth century.
Biography
I completed my BA (Hons) and MA in English Literature in 2005 and 2006, and my PhD in 2010 at Cardiff University. I am currently a Post-doctoral Fellow in the School of English Communication and Philosophy.