Kate McLoughlin is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Harris Manchester College. She has published widely on war literature, including Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare (2018), Authoring War: The Literary Representation of War from the Iliad to Iraq (2011) and The Cambridge Companion to War Writing (2009). She is currently writing a literary history of silence funded by a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust.
Experience
2016–present
Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford
2014–2016
Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford
2013–2014
Reader in English Literature, Birkbeck, University of London
2012–2013
Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Birkbeck, University of London
2010–2012
Lecturer in English Literature, Birkbeck, University of London
2010–2010
Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Glasgow
2006–2010
Lecturer in English Literature, University of Glasgow
1999–2001
Assistant Counsel, Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
1994–1999
Policy Lawyer, Government Legal Service
Education
2004
University of Oxford, PhD / English Literature
2002
University of Oxford, MSt / Research Methods in English (Modern Period)
1994
Inns of Court School of Law, Vocational Course for the Bar
1993
University of Cambridge, MPhil / Renaissance Literature
1992
City University, London, Diploma in Law
1991
University of Oxford, MA / English Language and Literature
Publications
2019
British Literature in Transition: 1960-1980 - Flower Power, editor
2018
Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790-2015, author
2018
The First World War: Literature, Culture, Modernity, co-editor
2017
Writing War, Writing Lives, co-editor
2013
The Modernist Party, editor
2011
Plums, author
2011
Authoring War: The Literary Representation of War from the Iliad to Iraq, author
2009
The Cambridge Companion to War Writing, editor
2007
Martha Gellhorn: The War Writer in the Field and in the Text, author