Professor Chris Hopkins

Chris is an expert on the British novel in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly fiction of the First World War, the 1930s and the Second World War. His interests include women's writing, the bestseller, middlebrow novels, working class writing, novels about unemployment, novels about flying and the RAF, the wartime Ministry of Information and novels about Wales.

Expertise:

• Twentieth Century Novel 1900-1950
• The Nineteen Thirties
• First World War
• Second World War
• Popular Fiction
• Welsh Writing in English

Notable media coverage:

• The Independent [30 April 2003]
  On the road again
  Interviewed in this article about Orwell and Wigan Pier
• Yorkshire Post [3 December 2010]
  Rattling good reads
• Yorkshire Post [10 December 2011]
  Forgotten writers who won't be pulped fiction