Dr Glyn White
School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies
Current positions
Senior Lecturer
Biography
Dr Glyn White is a Senior Lecturer in Twentieth Century Literature and Culture at the º£½ÇÂÒÂ×. He has written extensively about page design and meaning in late twentieth century fiction, including the monograph Reading the Graphic Surface: The Presence of the Book in Prose Fiction (Manchester University Press, 2005), and various chapters and articles on Christine Brooke-Rose, Mark Z. Danielewski, Alasdair Gray and B.S. Johnson. He is co-author (with the late John Mundy) of Laughing Matters: Understanding Film, Television and Radio comedy (Manchester University Press 2012) and co-editor (with Professor Philip Tew) of The 1940s: A Decade on Modern British Fiction (2022), also contributing a chapter on Detective Fiction and Thrillers to the Bloomsbury Decades volume on the 1930s (2020).
Areas of Research
Twentieth Century English Literature
Twenty-first Century English Literature
Film and Television comedy
Crime fiction (literature, film, television)
Areas of Supervision
Visual Texts: novels, comic books which utilise the form of the book for effect.
Postmodern and experimental literature (B.S. Johnson, Christine Brooke-Rose, Alasdair Gray, Mark Z. Danielewski)
Film and television comedy.
Crime literature and thrillers 1930s, 1940s.
I currently deliver the modules: Postmodernism, Visual Text and Anthony Burgess and the Archive, and contribute to; Discovering Literature, Popular Fictions, The Romantic Period and Crime Writing.
Qualifications
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PhD
1997 - 2000