Elinor Taylor

Elinor Taylor is a Lecturer at the University of Westminster, specializing in the intersection of Marxism, modernism, and British political literature. She holds a BA from the University of Manchester, MA/PhD from the University of Salford, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education. As Director of Teaching and Learning for Humanities and Course Leader for two MA programs, her academic work bridges literary theory, cultural activism, and historical analysis.

• Education
  • BA, University of Manchester
  • MA/PhD, University of Salford
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education

Research Focus: Taylor's scholarship examines British leftist literature's engagement with antifascism, socialist realism, and working-class narratives. Her 2018 monograph The Popular Front Novel in Britain, 1934-1940 reinterprets interwar fiction through Marxist lenses, while her 2021 co-edited volume The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction expands periodization debates. Current projects include analyses of 'people's war' and workers' inquiry in 20th-century literature.

Research Outputs span historical fiction's political function (e.g., Jack Lindsay's works), urban narrative fragmentation in modernism, and Soviet montage theory's influence on British writers. Key journals include Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism, which she edits.

Awards & Memberships:

• Fellow, Higher Education Academy
• Executive Committee, Raymond Williams Society