Dr David Ashford
Lecturer in English
Qualifications: BA MA PhD
Email: d.ashford@surrey.ac.uk
Phone: Work: 01483 68 2840
Room no: 37 AC 05
Further information
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".

