Department Member, English Language and Literature
University of York, English and Related Literature
Fourth Year Fellow
Thesis Title: Irrational Discoveries: Collage and the Work of Cornell, Burroughs, O'Hara and Dylan, 1930-1970
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Mark Ford
Hugh Stevens |
About
My research explores collage and the work of Joseph Cornell, William Burroughs, Frank O’Hara, and Bob Dylan, between 1930 and 1970, arguing that collage was crucial to the creative development of each: although its subjects are not wholly collage artists, the medium was a vital catalyst for their more prominent creations, permeating and inflecting their bodies of work. My thesis is the first interdisciplinary consideration of the collage medium during this period.
Other research interests include the New York Schools of Poetry and Art; Beat Generation writing; Dada and Surrealism; transgressive fiction; Lost Generation writing; the American novel; Modernist fiction; East Africa in literature and film; the British avant-garde; queer studies; New York writing; publication histories.
I hold the 2011/12 Fourth Year Fellowship in the English Department at UCL, and am Assistant Editor of the European Beat Studies Network.
