Nicholas Shepley

Nicholas Shepley is an Honorary Lecturer at the Department of English Lang & Literature, University College London.

• PhD in English, University College London (2010)
• MA in English: Issues in Modern Culture, University College London (2006)
• Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE), King's College London (1997)
• MA Oxon in English, University of Oxford (1996)

His research focuses on Comics, Contemporary Fiction, History of the Novel, and Literary Theory. His work examines obliquity in Henry Green's novels and the evolution of narrative forms from late modernism to postmodernism. He has authored a book on Henry Green and is working on a second book exploring the circadian structure in mid-century modernist literature.

The available publications highlight themes in Modernist Literature, 20th Century Fiction, and Narrative Techniques, with sub-fields extending to postmodernism, class analysis, and everyday life representation.

At UCL, Shepley teaches postgraduate and undergraduate courses including Issues in Modern Culture, Narrative Texts, Criticism and Theory, and Moderns I/II, emphasizing Henry Green, Evelyn Waugh, Jean Rhys, and Graphic Cities.