Professor Michael Greaney

Professor in English Literature

Research Overview

Michael's research focuses on literature, especially fiction, from 1800 to the present. He is the author of Conrad, Language, and Narrative (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Contemporary Fiction and the Uses of Theory (Palgrave, 2006), Sleep and the Novel (Palgrave, 2018) and An A-Z of Jane Austen (Bloomsbury, 2022), and co-author, with Catherine Coveney, Eric Hsu, Rob Meadows and Simon Williams, of Technosleep: Fictions, Frontiers, Futures (Palgrave, 2023). His research has appeared in Contemporary Literature, English, Essays in Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Studies in English Literature and Studies in the Novel. He is currently working on manhunt narratives in nineteenth-century British fiction.

Moor Park High School
School Engagement

The Nature of Persuasion
Invited talk

The Castle Annual Symposium
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Jane Austen and the Great Outdoors
Invited talk

An Austentatious Display of Genius
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

The Manhunt Narrative
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Department of English Literature and Creative Writing: 60th Anniversary Exhibition
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

British Association for Victorian Studies Conference (BAVS)
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

An A-Z of Jane Austen
Invited talk

AI Review Group (Event)
Membership of committee

Re-reading Jane Austen
Invited talk

Re-reading Jane Austen
Invited talk

Monroe Kirk Spears Award 2022
Prize (including medals and awards)

Louise Gorse

Louise Gorse

PhD student

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