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Tim Armstrong
Professor of Modern English and American Literature

I have worked at Royal Holloway since 1995; before that I taught at the University of Sheffield for six years, at University College Cork, and at University College London, where I did my graduate work. My BA and MA were at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. My main research areas are Modernism, American literature, literature and technology, literature and the body (including such areas as sexology, bodily reform and cinema); and the literature and culture of risk and disaster from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Current work includes a project on slavery as metaphor. I also have a longstanding interest in Thomas Hardy’s poetry. I have supervised 14 research degrees to completion, and currently supervise PhD students, in areas including African-American literature, lesbian modernism, post-war American literature and culture, and Gertrude Stein. I am director of the MA in Literatures of Modernity (see link above) and am happy to answer any inquiries. Phone: 01784 443747 Email: t.armstrong@rhul.ac.uk