Luke Vernon Lewin Davies
Stillingsbeskrivelse
Luke Lewin Davies's research interests include critical theory, Marxism, and twentieth-century British literature and film. His monograph The Tramp in British Literature was shortlisted for the Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize (2022). He has previously held posts at Keele University (UK) and the University of Tübingen (Germany).
Forskningsinteresser
Recent publications include;
The Tramp in British Literature, 1850-1950. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
“Degrowth and Marxist Ecology” in British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700, ed. John Goodridge (University of London Press, 2025).
“Platforming the Poor in 1920s Britain: Habermas, Foucault, and the Politics of Display” in The 1920s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction, ed. Nick Hubble (Bloomsbury, 2025).
“György Lukács and the Eighteenth-Century Novel.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 71-2 (2023): 127-144.
“Representing the Poor: The Emergence of the ‘Point-of-View’ Mode in Interwar Documentary Film, Mass Observation and the Publications of Victor Gollancz Ltd.” Twentieth-Century Literature 68-1 (2022): 1-24.
“‘Progressing Backwards’: Rural Outsider Figures in Richard Jefferies, W.H. Hudson and Edward Thomas.” English Studies 103-10 (2021): 1-25.
“Representing the Tramp in British Interwar Social Exploration Literature: Frank Jennings, Frank Gray and George Orwell.” English Studies 103-6 (2022): 871-898.
“Appropriating the Abject: Witchcraft in Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi’s Suspiria (1977) and David Kajganich and Luca Guadagnino’s 2018 Remake.” New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film 18-1&2 (2020): 43-59.
“Precarious Living in the Films of Ken Loach” in Living with Strangers: Bedsits and Boarding-houses in Modern English Life, Literature and Film (London: Bloomsbury, 2018): 145-160.