Kate Mcloughlin

(MENAFN- The Conversation)

• Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford

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Kate McLoughlin is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Harris Manchester College. She has published widely on war literature, including Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare (2018), Authoring War: The Literary Representation of War from the Iliad to Iraq (2011) and The Cambridge Companion to War Writing (2009). She is currently writing a literary history of silence funded by a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust.

Experience

• 2016–present Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford
• 2014–2016 Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford
• 2013–2014 Reader in English Literature, Birkbeck, University of London
• 2012–2013 Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Birkbeck, University of London
• 2010–2012 Lecturer in English Literature, Birkbeck, University of London
• 2010–2010 Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Glasgow
• 2006–2010 Lecturer in English Literature, University of Glasgow
• 1999–2001 Assistant Counsel, Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
• 1994–1999 Policy Lawyer, Government Legal Service

Education

• 2004 University of Oxford, PhD / English Literature
• 2002 University of Oxford, MSt / Research Methods in English (Modern Period)
• 1994 Inns of Court School of Law, Vocational Course for the Bar
• 1993 University of Cambridge, MPhil / Renaissance Literature
• 1992 City University, London, Diploma in Law
• 1991 University of Oxford, MA / English Language and Literature

Publications

• 2019 British Literature in Transition: 1960-1980 - Flower Power, editor
• 2018 Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790-2015, author
• 2018 The First World War: Literature, Culture, Modernity, co-editor
• 2017 Writing War, Writing Lives, co-editor
• 2013 The Modernist Party, editor
• 2011 Plums, author
• 2011 Authoring War: The Literary Representation of War from the Iliad to Iraq, author
• 2009 The Cambridge Companion to War Writing, editor
• 2007 Martha Gellhorn: The War Writer in the Field and in the Text, author
• 2007 Tove Jansson Rediscovered, co-editor

Grants and Contracts

• 2019 Major Research Fellowship Role: PI Funding Source: Leverhulme Trust
• 2017 Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Funding Role: CI Funding Source: Mellon Foundation
• 2014 Landmark Conference Funding Role: CI Funding Source: British Academy
• 2013 Mid-Career Fellowship Role: PI Funding Source: British Academy
• 2002 Doctoral Funding Role: Funding Source: Arts and Humanities Research Council
• 1992 Master's Funding Role: Funding Source: Arts and Humanities Research Board

Professional Memberships

• WAR-Net

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