Howard Booth

Dr. Howard Booth is a Senior Lecturer in English and American Studies at the University of Manchester, where he has been since 2000. He previously held positions at the University of Kent and Birkbeck, University of London. As General Editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Fiction of E.M. Forster, he leads a major scholarly project spanning eight volumes.

His research explores three interconnected themes: modernism in colonial and post-colonial contexts; the relationship between arts and English radicalism; and representations of masculinity and male sexual identity. Key authors in his work include E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling, and John Addington Symonds.

Booth has supervised over 20 doctoral students on diverse topics including Victorian literature, modernism, postcolonial writing, and creative writing. His extensive mentorship spans projects on North African Victorian writing, Turkish literature, New Zealand modernity, and Chinese translations of Virginia Woolf.