Biography

Leigh Wilson was educated at the University of Warwick (BA (hons) in English & American Literature 1987), Birkbeck College, London (MA in Gender, Culture and Society 1993), and the University of Westminster (PhD in English 2000). She is Course Leader for the MA English Literature programme and one of the departmental co-ordinators for the research student programme. She is also a member of the Executive Committee for the Network for Modern Fiction Studies.
 
Her present research interests centre on modernism and on contemporary British fiction. She is currently writing a monograph, Modernism and Magic: Experiments with Spiritualism, Mysticism and the Occult, for Edinburgh University Press.

Teaching Interests

Leigh is course leader for the MA in English Literature and module leader for 'Reading Contemporary Culture: Politics and Prizes' (MA module), as well as the following BA English Literature modules: Modernism and the Early Twentieth Century; The Uses of Memory: The novel in English from 1980. Leigh would welcome applications from students wishing to pursue graduate research on aspects of late nineteenth-century and modernist literature, or on contemporary British fiction.

Recent Interests and Key Outputs

‘The Cross-correspondences, the Nature of Evidence and the Matter of Writing’ in Tatiana Kontou and Sarah Willburn (eds), Research Companion on Victorian Spiritualism and the Occult (Ashgate 2011)

What Writers Say: Interviews with Contemporary Authors, with Philip Tew and Fiona Tolan (Continuum 2008)

Modernism (Continuum 2007)

'Gender, History and the Cross-Correspondences', Critical Survey, special issue eds. Ann Heilmann & Mark Llewellyn on Modernist Women Writers and History (2007)

Teaching Contemporary British Fiction, with Steve Barfield, Anja Müller-Wood and Philip Tew, Special Issue of Anglistik und Englischunterricht (2006)

‘Possessing Toby Litt’s Ghost Story’, in Rod Mengham and Philip Tew (eds), British Fiction Today (Continuum, 2006)