Andrew D Radford

Dr. Andrew D Radford is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow's College of Arts, where he teaches across junior and senior honours courses in post-1900 Anglo-American Literature and contributes to the postgraduate MLitt program in Modernities. His academic expertise spans European Modernism, British Surrealism, post-1945 British fiction, and book history, with a particular focus on underexplored writers and their contributions to literary innovation.

Dr. Radford's research encompasses European Modernism, British Surrealism (particularly Ithell Colquhoun and Leonora Carrington), Poetry and Politics of the 1930s, Post-1945 British fiction (Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark, Barbara Pym, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Barbara Comyns, Ann Quin), Paul Nash and British Art 1900-1940, Book History, George Borrow studies, and Contemporary Literature. He has published extensively on Mary Butts and British neo-romanticism, as evidenced by his 2014 monograph, and maintains a long-standing research interest in John Calder, the Scottish-Canadian translator and anti-censorship campaigner.

His recent publications reveal a consistent focus on literary recovery projects, particularly concerning women writers and marginalized voices. He has produced scholarly editions of George Borrow's works, edited collections on Modernism and Myth, and is completing research on Women Writers of the Second World War, examining how country house fiction served as laboratories for exploring class hierarchies and social dynamics during wartime.

Dr. Radford has supervised numerous PhD students on diverse topics including eco-criticism, feminist classicism, Gothic fiction, British writings on China, textile orientalisms, and African women writers. He leads the AHRC Research Network "Popular Occulture in Britain 1875-1947" which investigates the influence of occult beliefs on British popular culture, resulting in the 2018 Routledge publication "The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947" which he co-edited with Professor Christine Ferguson.