English and Related Literature
York PhD Wins Prestigious Essay Prize
Posted on 26 January 2018
The English Postgraduate Essay prize competition was open to registered doctoral students anywhere in the world, and looked for ‘new perspectives on canonical and/or non-canonical Anglophone literatures’.
Doug’s essay contributes to current conversations between contemporary authors and critics about the kind of fiction that can or should be written in the wake of postmodernism. In its intense preoccupation with bodily feeling and its anti-anthropocentric stress on the affinity between human and animal life, The North Water (2016), he argues, exemplifies a significant trend in contemporary writing. The essay, which will appear in the journal English in due course, will be the first academic publication on McGuire’s work.
In February, Doug will be taking up a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Tokyo to study Kazuo Ishiguro’s fiction. He is one of thirteen talented scholars to have successfully completed research degrees in the Department in recent months. We are proud of them all!