About Caroline Edwards

I’m Lecturer in English and carry out research, teaching and graduate supervision in the Department of English in 20th and 21st-century fiction, utopianism, critical theory, Marxist aesthetics, science fiction, post-apocalyptic narratives, women’s writing and modernism. Previously I have held posts researching and teaching at the University of Surrey and the University of Nottingham (where I was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council). In 2012 I co-organised 2 conferences for the publisher Gylphi (on China Miéville and Maggie Gee), in collaboration with the University of St Andrews and Birkbeck, University of London, and I am currently co-organising a conference on British SF novelist Adam Roberts with Christos Callow Jr at the University of Lincoln in April 2013.

I am Founding and Commissioning Editor of the open access journal of literary criticism Alluvium.

Department Responsibilities

I lecture and teach at Levels 1, 2 and 3 on the undergraduate programme in English, as well as on the MA in 21st-Century Literature and supervise research at PhD level. I am also Admissions Tutor for the department.

I currently supervise 2 PhD students working on The Dystopian Short Story and The Female Grotesque Body in Literature of the Fin de Siècle. If you are interested in applying for a PhD in 21st-century literature, science fiction or utopian literature and theory please do get in touch.

Subject Specialism

20th and 21st century literature, critical theory, utopianism, women‘s writing, modernism, postmodernism, Marxist aesthetics

Qualifications

• BA (Hons) English Literature (University of Warwick)
• MA English (University of Warwick)
• PhD Critical Theory (University of Nottingham)

Awards

• University of Nottingham Researcher-Led Initiative Funding (2011) - £2,000 — ,
• AHRC Collaborative Research Training Scheme (2008) - £1,700 — ,
• AHRC Doctoral Funding Award (2006-2009) - £46,980 — ,
• University of Lincoln Researcher-led Funding (2012) - £1,000 — ,
• Universtiy of Pennsylvania Scholarship (2011) - $500 — ,

Professional Affiliations

• Modern Languages Association
• English Association
• Contemporary Women’s Writing Association
• Political Studies Association
• Utopian Studies Society

External Activities and Consultancy

Occasional reader reports for Manchester University Press, Continuum and C21: Journal of 21st-Century Writings