Julyan Oldham

Julyan Oldham is a Post-Award Member at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, focusing on twentieth-century British literature and culture. Their research intersects with literary modernism, queer and gender studies, the history of sexuality, and narrative temporality.

Research Interests include:

• Twentieth-century literature and culture
• Literary modernism
• Queer and gender studies
• History of sexuality
• National identity
• Temporality and sentimentality in fiction

Their AHRC-funded DPhil thesis, Virginity and Modernity in the Early Twentieth-Century British Novel: Fictions of Incompleteness, analyzes virginity in works by authors like Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, and Dorothy Richardson. They have taught undergraduates on topics ranging from twentieth-century asexuality to the history of the novel form.

One recent publication, Growing Absurd: Sexuality, Development, and Virgin Time in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage (Winter 2023), explores intersections of modernist narrative, temporality, and queer theory.