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Professor John Nash serves as Professor in the Department of English Studies at Durham University's Faculty of Arts and Humanities, having joined in 2006 after a decade at Trinity College Dublin. He held significant administrative roles including Director of Research for the Department of English Studies (2008-2014) and Deputy Head of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (2015-2018) with responsibility for research.
His academic background includes a degree from the University of Birmingham and a D.Phil from the University of Oxford.
Nash's research centers on twentieth-century British and Irish writing with specialized expertise in James Joyce studies, modernist literature, Edwardian culture, and domesticity in literature. His work examines the relationship between literary form and historical change, particularly through analyses of domestic arrangements in 1890-1940 literature and Joyce's reception contexts. Current projects include a book on domesticity in late-Victorian to modernist writing and exploration of writers' house museums, building on British Academy-funded research.
His publication record reveals consistent engagement with modernist material culture, linguistic politics, and transnational reception, particularly through analyses of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Arnold Bennett. The research demonstrates methodological breadth spanning textual analysis, cultural history, and material culture studies.
- Plenary Address at International James Joyce Conference (Buffalo, 2008)
- Member of AHRC Peer Review College (2007-present)
Nash actively supervises PhD candidates with recent completions including theses on Joyce and advertising, G.K. Chesterton and parody, luggage in fiction 1895-1939, phenomenology of place in modernist women's writing, and performance in Joyce. He has secured major funding including British Academy and Leverhulme Trust grants for projects on advertising in Ireland and non-translation in modernism. Current editorial projects include a new edition of The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce and ongoing work on Catholic contexts in early twentieth-century British literature.
