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KAYMAN, MARTIN A.

After studying at the University of York, Professor Martin Kayman worked for a long period working at Coimbra University, Portugal, where he was Director of the Institute for English Studies and chair of the Department of Anglo-American Studies. He moved to Cardiff University in 2000, where he became Head of the Cardiff School of English, Communication, and Philosophy and Chair of the Cardiff Humanities Research Institute board.

Martin’s research interests include law and literature, eighteenth-century culture, crime fiction, the culture of police, the cultural politics of English and globalisation. Recent work has focused on two subject areas: ’law-and-literature’ and both theoretical and historical issues in the cultural politics of English and, particularly, English Studies in Europe.

Martin has published articles in numerous journals including Law and Critique, ELH, Textual Practice, European Journal of English Studies, British and American Studies, REAL Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, New Literary History and European English Messenger. Between 1998 to 2003, Martin was editor of The European English Messenger, the newsletter of the European Society for the Study of English and is currently one of the three general editors of The European Journal of English Studies.

He is currently working on a study of the postmodern authority of the ‘corpus’ in law, literature and theory, and on the historical and theoretical relations between law and literature in the eighteenth century – while continuing to explore issues relating to what might characterise ‘European’ English Studies.

Selected Publications:
The Modernism of Ezra Pound: the Science of Poetry (Macmillan, 1986)
Revolution and Counter-revolution in Portugal (The Merlin Press, 1987)
From Bow Street to Baker Street: Mystery, Detection and Narrative (Macmillan, 1992)

Contributed to:
European English Studies: Contributions towards the History of a Discipline (contributor) (The English Association for the European Society for the Study of English, 2000)
Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction (contributor) (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
In the Grip of Law: Trials, Prisons and the Space Between (contributor) (Peter Lang, 2004)
Estudos Em Homenagem a Margarida Losa (contributor) (Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 2006)
English: The Condition of the Subject (contributor) (Palgrave, 2006)
English: The Condition of the Subject (contributor) (Palgrave, 2007)
Autonomy and Engagement in Literature at the Two Fins de Siècle, 1900 and 2000 (contributor) (Leuven Peeters, forthcoming)