Dr Huw Marsh, BA (Hull) MA (UEA) PhD (London)
Research and External Communications Administrator
Location: ArtsOne 3.37bemail: h.d.j.marsh@qmul.ac.uk
Phone: 020 7882 8557
Principal responsibilities:
- Managing the administration of the School's research postgraduate student body
- Planning, developing and maintaining the external communications and marketing and publicity of the School
- Providing professional support for research grant applications and administrative support for research projects in the School
- Planning and managing School conferences and events
Research interests:
Huw Marsh’s research focuses primarily on the post-war and contemporary novel. Particular interests include historical fiction, gender, comedy, and the formation of the contemporary canon. He completed his PhD in 2010 with a thesis on the novels of Beryl Bainbridge, and his book on Bainbridge is forthcoming from Northcote House. He has published journal articles and book chapters on Beryl Bainbridge, Nicola Barker, Penelope Lively, and adaptations of the 1954 Parker-Hulme murder. Current research projects include a study of comedy in the contemporary British novel.
Publications:
Beryl Bainbridge, Writers and their Work series (Tavistock: Northcote House in association with the British Council), forthcoming
‘From the ‘other side’: Mimicry and Feminist Rewriting in the Novels of Beryl Bainbridge’, Identity and Form in 20th and 21st Century Literature, ed. by Ana María Sánchez-Arce, forthcoming
‘Unlearning Empire: Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger’, in End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945, ed. by Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011)
‘Life’s nasty habit: time, death and intertextuality in Beryl Bainbridge’s An Awfully Big Adventure’, Critical Engagements, 2.1 (Spring/Summer 2008), 85-110