Jim Byatt

Biography

Jim Byatt received his BA(Hons) from Wolverhampton and his MA from Warwick. In 2009, he completed his PhD thesis at Warwick, on the subject of the tabooed or marginalised identity in British Fiction since 1967. This project is concerned with exposing the narratives of those whose voices remain excluded from contemporary society, including incestuous families, paedophiles and the terminally ill. He has taught on Modernism, critical theory and academic writing at Warwick and is currently teaching literature from the nineteenth century to the present, including science fiction, at St Andrews. He has also supervised dissertations on contemporary British and American literature and science fiction.

Research Interest

Jim has research interests in British fiction since 1945, postmodernism, film studies, popular culture and experimental writing. He is also interested in theories of taboo and transgression, censorship, and extreme literature, and enjoys researching lesser-known British authors including Paul Sayer, David Cook and Alexander Stuart. He is currently working on articles for publication in areas including fiction and disability studies, posthumous narrators, and the work of JG Ballard. Planned future projects include a study of British experimental fiction since the Second World War and a survey of the uses of the posthumous narrator in secular world literature.