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Professor of English, Bournemouth University

Hywel Dix is Professor of English at Bournemouth University, UK. He has published extensively on the relationship between literature, culture and political change in contemporary Britain, most notably in Postmodern Fiction and the Break-Up of Britain (2010), After Raymond Williams: Cultural Materialism and the Break-Up of Britain (Second Edition, 2013) and Multicultural Narratives: Traces and Perspectives, co-edited with Mustafa Kirca (2018). His wider research interests include modern and contemporary literature, critical cultural theory, authorial careers and autofiction. His monograph about literary careers entitled The Late-Career Novelist was published by Bloomsbury in 2017 and an edited collection of essays on Autofiction in English was published by Palgrave in 2018. He has recently completed a study entitled Compatriots or Competitors? Welsh, Scottish, English and Northern Irish Writing and Brexit in Comparative Contexts.

Experience

  • 2010–present
    Associate Professor of English, Bournemouth University

Education

  • 2006 
    University of Glamorgan, PhD English: 'Raymond Williams, Cultural Materialism and the Break-Up of Britain'

Publications

  • 2022
    Unfulfilled Vocations in Contemporary American Fiction. , Textual Practice 36 (1).
  • 2020
    Career Construction Theory and Life Writing: Narrative and Autobiographical Thinking across the Professions,
  • 2019
    Autofiction, Colonial Massacres and the Politics of Memory., University of Bucharest Review. 22 (1)
  • 2018
    From Writer’s Block to Extended Plot: Career Construction Theory and Lives in Writing, Life Writing 16
  • 2018
    Autofiction in English,
  • 2018
    Multicultural Narratives: Traces and Perspectives,
  • 2017
    The Late-Career Novelist,
  • 2017
    Autofiction: The forgotten face of French theory, Word and Text, 7 (1)
  • 2015
    On Balkanism and Orientalism: Undifferentiated Patterns of Perception in Literary and Critical Representations of Eastern Europe, Textual Practice, Vol. 29 (5)
  • 2013
    After Raymond Williams: Cultural Materialism and the Break-Up of Britain,
  • 2010
    Postmodern Fiction and the Break-Up of Britain,