David Dwan

Professor David Dwan is a Tutorial Fellow in English at Hertford College and Professor of English Literature and Intellectual History at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the intersection of literature with moral and political philosophy in the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular emphasis on Irish writing and cultural nationalism.

• Current research on ethical significance of fiction and modernism's entanglements with philosophy
• Completed monographs on Edmund Burke, W.B. Yeats, and George Orwell
• Lectures in post-1900 literature and modernist philosophical elements

His publications reveal a strong focus on:

• Literary-philosophical connections
• Irish intellectual history
• Modernist ethics and political ideology
• 20th-century British literature
• Critical editions and interdisciplinary analysis

Scientific Awards:

• Leverhulme Trust sponsorship for Irish intellectuals study

Teaching: First-year literature papers (1830-1910 and 1910-present), FHS Paper 5, MSt post-1900 literature courses.