Current faculty and student work in and around Modernism at Sussex spans a range of topics including adolescence, American avant-garde poetry, Beckett, boredom, the quotidian, democracy, Maya Deren, George Oppen, Pasolini, photography, Pound, prettiness, and JH Prynne.
Some recent graduate dissertation titles: Ruth Charnock, 'Touching stories: performances of intimacy in the diaries of Anais Nin', Michael Kindellan, 'Credible practices: Whitman's candour, Pound's sincerity, Olson's literalism', Michael Hallam, 'Avant-Garde realism: James Hanley, Patrick Hamilton and the lost years of the 1940s', David Tucker, 'Tracking "a literary fantasia": Arnold Geulincx in the works of Samuel Beckett', Gareth Farmer, 'Veronica Forrest-Thomson, poetic artifice and the struggle with forms', Karen Schaller, 'The Bowen affect: the short fiction of Elizabeth Bowen and the case of re-reading emotion', and Alex Pestell, 'Geoffrey Hill: poetry, criticism and philosophy'.
Also refer to Publications, left.