Post:	Senior Lecturer in English
Location:	Arts B B222
Email:	P.Thurschwell@sussex.ac.uk
Telephone numbers
Internal:	8721
UK:	(01273) 678721
International:	+44 1273 678721

Biography

I began teaching at Sussex in 2007 having previously taught at University College London. I've also taught and/or studied at Cambridge, Cornell, Yale and Sussex (I did my MA here in 1990-91).

Role

Senior Lecturer in English

Research

I have worked on the intersection of psychoanalysis, interest in the supernatural at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, and new technologies. I have also published on popular culture and film. My current project, about representations of adolescence in literature and culture, is tentatively titled Out of Time: The Temporality of Adolescence in the 20th Century.

Publications

Books:

Sigmund Freud (Routledge, 2000)

Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880-1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2001)

The Victorian Supernatural, co-editor with Nicola Bown and Carolyn Burdett (Cambridge University Press, 2004)

Literary Secretaries/Secretarial Culture, co-editor with Leah Price (Ashgate Press, 2005)

 

Selected chapters and articles:

'Genre, Repetition and History in Jonathan Coe' in British Fiction Today edited by Rod Mengham and Philip Tew (Continuum, 2006)

'George Eliot's prophecies: coercive second sight and everyday thought reading' in The Victorian Supernatural, edited by Bown, Burdett and Thurschwell (Cambridge University Press, 2004)

'Refusing to give up the ghost: some thoughts on the afterlife from spirit photography to phantom films' in The Disembodied Spirit edited by Alison Ferris (Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2003)

'A Different Baby Blue' in Do You Mr. Jones? Bob Dylan with the Poets and Professors edited by Neil Corcoran (Chatto and Windus, 2002)

'Supple Minds and Automatic Hands: Secretarial Agency in Early Twentieth Century Literature,' Forum for Modern Language Studies 37 (2001), 155-68.

'Elvis Costello as Cultural Icon and Cultural Critic in Bret Easton Ellis's Less than Zero and Nick Hornby's High Fidelity' in Reading Rock 'n' Roll edited by William Richey and Kevin Dettmar (Columbia University Press, 1999)

'Henry James and Theodora Bosanquet: On the typewriter, In the Cage, at the Ouija Board', Textual Practice 13 (1999), 5-23.

'Ferenczi's Dangerous Proximities: Telepathy, Psychosis and the Real Event', differences 11 (1999), 150-78.