Robert Duggan

Contact Details

Tel: +44 (0) 1243 816235
Email: R.Duggan@chi.ac.uk

Robert Duggan is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Chichester. He studied for a PhD at the University of Kent and has previously taught English at Keele University, the University of Salford and the University of Manchester. Robert runs a level 3 special topic on Postmodern British Fiction and is interested in supervising postgraduate research in the areas of contemporary British and Irish fiction. He is currently completing a monograph entitled The Grotesque in Contemporary British Fiction for Manchester University Press.

Recent Publications

'Ghosts of Gotham: 9/11 mourning in Patrick McGrath's Ghost Town and Michael Cunningham's Specimen Days' Journal of Postcolonial Writing 46. 3 (2010).

‘Big-Time Shakespeare and the Joker in the Pack: the Intrusive Author in Martin Amis’s Money’ Journal of Narrative Theory 39.1 (Winter 2009).

‘Iain M. Banks, Postmodernism and the Gulf War’ Extrapolation 48.3 (Winter 2007).

(with Dr Páraic Finnerty) ‘The Body of the Terrorist in Contemporary Cinema’ Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 7.1 (Jan-Feb 2007).

‘"Circles of Stage Fire"': Angela Carter, Charles Dickens and Heteroglossia in the English Comic Novel’ in Rebecca Munford (ed.) Re-visiting Angela Carter: Texts, Contexts, Intertexts (Palgrave – 2006).

Research Interests

Contemporary British fiction, intertexual relations, science fiction, contemporary cinema.

Teaching interests

Twentieth-century literature, critical theory, gender and sexuality, Irish literature, postcolonial literature.