The Writers of Wales Database

CROSTHWAITE, PAUL

Paul Crosthwaite is a Lecturer in the School of English Literature at Cardiff University. His research interests include modernist and postmodernist fiction, psychoanalysis, literary and cultural theory, and culture and financial markets. Having recently completed a monograph entitled Trauma, Postmodernism, and the Aftermath of World War II for Palgrave Macmillan, Paul is currently writing a book on the interrelationship between literature, culture, and financial markets in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He is also currently writing an essay on attempts to develop artificial intelligence programmes capable of producing literary texts, and their implications for theories of authorship. Paul has contributed articles to various journals including Textual Practice, Static: Journal of the London Consortium and Cultural Politics.

Selected Publications:
Trauma, Postmodernism, and the Aftermath of World War II (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)

Contributed to:
Beginnings: Critical Perspectives on English Studies (contributor) (University of Stirling, 2005)
Tales of the Great American Victory: World War II in Politics and Poetics (contributor) (VU University Press, 2006)
Bombs Away!: Representing the Air War over Europe and Japan (contributor) (Rodopi, 2006) 
The Blackwell Companion to Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction (contributor) (Blackwell, 2010)
Criticism, Crisis, and Contemporary Narrative: Textual Horizons in an Age of Global Risk (editor) (Routledge, 2010)