Laurence Davies

Research Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

D. Phil., Sussex
M.A. Oxford

204A Dartmouth Hall

laurence.davies@dartmouth.edu

Speculative fiction; literature of the uncanny; flash and microfictions; literary and linguistic politics of the Celtic nations; orality and literacy; anglophone literatures, especially West African; modernist fiction in Europe and the Americas.

Courses

English 12: Science Fiction; English 60: Irish Literature; English 69: Welsh, Scottish, and Irish Literatures. Comparative Literature courses on Orality and Literacy; Forms of Short Fiction; Science and Literature; Modernism; Bessie Head and Wole Soyinka. Interdisciplinary college courses on Mathematics and Science Fiction; Irish History and Literature; The Planet Mars.

Selected Publications

• The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, Vols. 1-6 (Cambridge University Press, 1983-2002; with Frederick R. Karl and others); Vol. 7 in press, Vol. 8 in progress
• Cunninghame Graham: A Critical Biography (Cambridge, 1978; with Cedric Watts)
• 'Seductions of the Word: Conrad and Soyinka.' Conrad in / and Africa. Ed. Attie de Lange and Gail Fincham. Boulder: East European Monographs, 2002.
• 'At Play in the Fields of Our Ford: Utopian Dystopianism in Atwood, Huxley, and Zamyatin.' Transformations of Utopia. Ed. George Slusser, Paul Alkon, Roger Gaillard and Daniele Chatelain. New York: AMS Press, 1999. 205-14.
• 'Conrad and Potocki: A Speculation.' Conrad and Poland. Ed. Alex S. Kurczaba. Boulder: East European Monographs, 1997. 179-94.
• '"The Evils of a Long Peace": Desiring the Great War.' Fights of Fancy: Armed Conflicts in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. George Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993. 59-69.