David Bradshaw
David Bradshaw, MA, D.Phil., FEA, is Reader in English Literature, Oxford University and Tutor in English Literature, Worcester College, Oxford. Dr Bradshaw is a specialist in the literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His main field of research is Modernism and he has a particular interest in the work of Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Aldous Huxley, E.M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell. In addition, he is especially (though not exclusively) interested in the following issues and areas in the broad period 1880-1945: eugenics; censorship and obscenity; political and social movements; dystopias, art and architecture; the reading and publishing cultures of the era; newspapers and little magazines; technology; anthropology; the city. He has edited The Hidden Huxley (Faber), Brave New World (Vintage), Waugh's Decline and Fall (Penguin), Ford's The Good Soldier (Penguin) and the Oxford World's Classics editions of The White Peacock and Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence and Woolf's The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and Selected Essays.
He has also published articles on Bloomsbury, Conrad, T.S. Eliot, Huxley, Woolf, Yeats and various aspects of literature and thought in the 1930s, such as the anti-fascist movement, as well as editing The Concise Companion to Modernism (Blackwell, 2003), A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture (with Kevin J.H. Dettmar; Blackwell, 2006) and The Cambridge Companion to E.M. Forster (2007). Two monographs for Palgrave, Virginia Woolf and the Fabric of Things and Virginia Woolf and the 1930s are in train, as are Aldous Huxley: A Biography ( Faber/Farrar, Straus and Giroux); George Orwell: A Literary Biography (Blackwell); Virginia Woolf (Hesperus `Brief Lives' series); an edition of The Years by Virginia Woolf for the Shakespeare Head Edition of the Novels of Virginia Woolf (Blackwell); an edition of Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf for the Cambridge University Press Edition of the Novels of Virginia Woolf (CUP); an edition of the diary of `the Italian Lord Haw-Haw', provisionally entitled Renegade on the Run: The Diary of James Strachey Barnes, 1943-4 ; an article on J.S. Barnes and Ezra Pound, and an article on `James Douglas: Modernism's Sanitary Inspector'. Dr Bradshaw is a Founding Fellow of the English Association, General Editor of 'The Blackwell Concise Companions' series, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Cambridge University Press Edition of the Novels of Virginia Woolf.