Staff profiles
Professor Chris Hopkins
BA, MA MPhil, PGCTLHE, FHEA
Phone 0114 225 4010
E-mail c.i.hopkins@shu.ac.uk
Current work
Research interests include politics, genre and the novel in the
1930s, women's writing between the wars, Welsh writing
in English, writing of the to world wars, realism and modernism,
readerships and literary taste, the middle-brow novel, and the
history of school and university English. I am currently working
on a book on Walter Greenwood's Love on the Dole.
Major publications
Books
Thinking about Texts - An Introduction to English Studies, 2001; 2009.
English Fiction in the 1930s: Language, Genre, History, Continuum, 2006
Selected essays / articles
'Frustrated Spinsters' and 'Morbid Degenerates'?: Women and Men in Winifred Holtby's Truth is Not Sober (1934) in A Woman in Her Time: Winifred Holtby: Critical Essays, 2010.
'Wales and Welsh Review' in The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines; Vol. 1 in Britain and Ireland, 1880-1955, Oxford University Press, 2009.
'Caradoc Evans' Modernist Anti-Pastoral: My People (1915)' in New Versions of Pastoral: Post-Romantic, Modern and Contemporary Responses to the Tradition, Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 2009.
'Sylvia Townsend Warner and the Historical Novel 1936-1948' in Critical Essays on Sylvia Townsend Warner, English Novelist 1893-1978, Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.
'Leftists and Thrillers: the Politics of a Thirties Sub-genre' in And in Our Time: Literature of the Nineteen Thirties, Bucknell University Press, 2003, pp. 147-162.
Impact
I am running jointly with Dr Jane Hodson
at Sheffield University an Arts and Humanities
Research Council (AHRC) - funded Practical
Public Engagement Doctoral Training scheme
in the Humanities (2010-12).
I am also working on two projects connected with histories of reading in the twentieth century with a Sheffield community group, Reading Sheffield and with an academic/community group, Friends of the Readership and Literary Tastes Special Collection.
