Dr Glyn White
School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies
Current positions
Senior Lecturer
Biography
Dr Glyn White is a Senior Lecturer in Twentieth Century Literature and Culture at the University of Salford. He has written extensively about page design and meaning in late twentieth century fiction, including the monograph Reading the Graphic Surface: The Presence of the Book in Prose Fiction (Manchester University Press, 2005), and various chapters and articles on Christine Brooke-Rose, Mark Z. Danielewski, Alasdair Gray and B.S. Johnson. He is co-author (with the late John Mundy) of Laughing Matters: Understanding Film, Television and Radio comedy (Manchester University Press 2012) and co-editor (with Professor Philip Tew) of The 1940s: A Decade on Modern British Fiction (2022), also contributing a chapter on Detective Fiction and Thrillers to the Bloomsbury Decades volume on the 1930s (2020).
Areas of Research
Twentieth Century English Literature
Twenty-first Century English Literature
Film and Television comedy
Crime fiction (literature, film, television)
Areas of Supervision
Visual Texts: novels, comic books which utilise the form of the book for effect.
Postmodern and experimental literature (B.S. Johnson, Christine Brooke-Rose, Alasdair Gray, Mark Z. Danielewski)
Film and television comedy.
Crime literature and thrillers 1930s, 1940s.
I currently deliver the modules: Postmodernism, Visual Text and Anthony Burgess and the Archive, and contribute to; Discovering Literature, Popular Fictions, The Romantic Period and Crime Writing.
Qualifications
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PhD
1997 - 2000