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Luke Thurston is a Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at Aberystwyth University's Department of English & Creative Writing, internationally recognized for two decades of scholarship in psychoanalysis and literature with significant contributions to ghost story studies.
His academic qualifications include:
- BA, University of Oxford
- MA, University of Kent
- PhD, University of Kent
Thurston's research centers on modernist literature, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and the ghost story, with additional focus on literature and war, and Welsh and Irish writing in English. He is a leading authority on Joyce, Beckett, David Jones, and May Sinclair, with publications spanning Dickens to Pessoa and Freud to Laplanche.
His recent publications analyze sublimation in modernist writing, selfhood in Joyce and Lewis, and war narratives in May Sinclair's work, demonstrating sustained engagement with psychoanalytic theory and literary form across 23 research outputs since 2002.
Thurston actively supervises six PhD students and directs the David Jones Centre, fostering interdisciplinary research on the Welsh modernist while contributing to media discussions on Freud and Christmas ghost stories.
