Dr David Ashford

Research Interests

• Post-Humanism
• Modernist Space
• Urbanism
• Utopian Fiction
• Neo-Romanticism
• Psychogeography
• Pop Culture
• English Baroque

Publications

Blueprints for Babylon: Modernist Mapping of the London Underground -- Modernism/Modernity, forthcoming.

The Ghost in the Machine: Pyschogeography in the London Underground -- Literary London, Spring 2009.

Children Asleep in the Underground: The Tube-Shelters of Bill Brandt and Henry Moore -- The Cambridge Quarterly, Winter 2007.

Hostile Symbiosis: the American Invasion of the London Underground in Theodore Dreiser’s The Stoic -- Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, November 2007.

Teaching

Module Convener:

•  Writing on the Metropolis
•  Poetry in English from 1909
•  Reading to Write

Lecturer:

•  Contemporary Literature in a Global Context
•  Research and Development 1
•  Theories of Reading
•  Genres and Contemporary Writing
•  World Literatures and Cultures

Departmental Duties

• Staff-Student Liaison Officer
• Library Liaison Officer

Conferences and Events

Conferences:

•  The Emergence of the Post-Human Subject, University of Surrey, Guildford, 2010
•  Urban Underworld: a Conference and Multi-Media Show at the Cambridge University, 2006.

The Morag Morris Poetry Event: 

•  Sept 2008: Iain Sinclair on John Clare, "The Great North Road".
•  Sept 2009: J.H. Prynne on Edmund Blunden, "War in Arcady".