Michael Whitworth
Michael Whitworth, MA, DPhil, is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature, Oxford University, and Tutor in English Literature at Merton College, Oxford. His research primarily concerns the cultural contexts of modernist literature. His work has emphasized its intellectual contexts, particularly its relation to scientific ideas, its publishing contexts, and its social and political contexts. He is the author of Einstein’s Wake: Relativity, Metaphor, and Modernist Literature (2001), and Virginia Woolf (2005), editor of Modernism (Blackwell Guides to Criticism) (2007), and co-editor (with Anna Snaith) of Locating Woolf: The Politics of Space and Place (2007). He has written articles and chapters on Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, T. E. Hulme, T. S. Eliot, Herbert Read, and Hugh MacDiarmid, on popular science publishing, and on modernist periodicals. He co-founded the British Society for Literature and Science, and serves on its executive committee.
His current projects include a monograph on science, poetry, and specialization in the period 1900 to 1939, and an edition of Night and Day for the Cambridge University Press Edition of the Novels of Virginia Woolf.