Professor of Victorian Fiction, Durham University
My research interests are largely in the literary culture of the 19th- and early 20th-century periods, especially late Victorian and Edwardian fiction.
I have published on George Gissing, H G Wells, Marie Corelli, George du Maurier and Evelyn Waugh. Current research also includes a monograph on the male bond in fin-de-siècle literature, and an interdisciplinary project on time, memory and consciousness in Dickens.
Time travel: a conversation between a scientist and a literature professor
May 23, 2017 12:38 pm UTC| Science
Literature professor Simon John James and physicist Richard Bower were both involved in the curating the exhibition, Time Machines the past, the future, and how stories take us there. Their conversations quickly revealed...
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