Richard Elliott
Thesis title: Language, Affect and Representation in the novels of Don Delillo, David Foster Wallace and Philip Roth
PhD in English Literature
Year of study: 2
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Email: richard.elliott@ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisor:
Background
Richard Elliott holds a BA in English Literature from the Open University and a MSc in American Literature from the University of Edinburgh. He began his PhD in 2016 under the supervision of Dr Lee Spinks.
Richard has written and reviewed articles for Inciting Sparks, an interdisciplinary, multimedia platform for developing the impact of graduate and community research across the Arts and Humanities. He has also reviewed articles for Forum: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture and the Arts. He is one of the coordinators of OverLAP, a literature and philosophy reading group at the University of Edinburgh. In 2017, as part of OverLAP, he helped organise and run a two-day international conference hosted by the University of Edinburgh and the Institut français d’Écosse. In 2018, Richard read for the James Tait Black Prize for Drama.
Research summary
Richard’s doctoral research, supervised by Dr Lee Spinks, examines the ethics of writing across cultural boundaries in British and American Fiction from the 1960s to the present day. He is especially interested in novels that have been criticised for engaging in "cultural appropriation."
Organiser
- Conference organiser, 'Forms of Knowledge: A Literature and Philosophy Conference', University of Edinburgh, November 2017
Papers delivered
- 'Power to the People: What do student-led changes to university curricula mean for academic freedom?', Academic Freedom and Society Conference, University of Warwick, June 2017
- 'Sartre’s Existentialism in Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road', Forms of Knowledge: A Literature and Philosophy Conference, University of Edinburgh, November 2017