David Barnes

David Barnes is a Departmental Lecturer in English (1800 to the Present) at the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, and teaches for Lady Margaret Hall (LMH). He maintains active research affiliations through visiting fellowships at the Harrison Institute (University of Virginia) and Senate House Library (University of London).

His academic credentials include:

• BA in English, University of Oxford
• MA and PhD, Queen Mary, University of London

Dr Barnes' research centers on Urban Studies, examining cities in the cultural imaginary through projects like Urban Animals analyzing literary representations from Dickens to Woolf. His parallel focus on Transatlantic Cultural Exchanges investigates how empire and race ideologies shaped literary interactions between Europe and the Americas, featuring authors including Henry James, Langston Hughes, and D.H. Lawrence. This dual framework positions him at the intersection of spatial theory and postcolonial criticism.

His publication trajectory from 2014-2023 reveals consistent engagement with modernist literature and urban narratives, evolving toward contemporary cultural analysis in recent Literary Hub contributions. The corpus demonstrates methodological range across monographs, journal articles, and public-facing media while maintaining core thematic commitments to transnationalism and urban literary studies.