Professor Adam Piette

School of English

Professor of Modern Literature

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Jessop West

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Professor Adam Piette
School of English
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA
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I did my undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Cambridge, with a PhD on prose rhymes and the representation of memory in French and Irish modernist texts.

I taught at the Universities of Paris XIII, Geneva and Lausanne for ten years whilst turning the thesis into an OUP book — Remembering and the Sound of Words (Oxford University Press, 1996) — and publishing a study of Second World War fiction and poetry, Imagination at War (Macmillan, 1995).

I then worked as a lecturer then Reader at the University of Glasgow between 1997 and 2005, where I specialised in 20th century teaching in American and English literature and worked closely with Willy Maley on teaching creative writing at MA level, helping found and run the Edwin Morgan Centre for Creative Writing.

In 2003, I was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship funding a book on Cold War writing: The Literary Cold War, 1945 to Vietnam (Edinburgh University Press, 2009). I co-edited The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012) with Mark Rawlinson. More recently, I have published articles on Beckett, Joyce, Nabokov, the war story, Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark, postwar espionage fiction, 20th century poetry.

I also am general editor of the student creative writing magazine, Route 57, and co-edit the poetry journal, Blackbox Manifold.

I am currently a co-investigator on a project using

Research interests

I am working on other aspects of Cold War culture, and help run the Cultures of the Cold War network.

I am also currently researching Beckett and am planning a series of articles on Beckett and the French Cold War, Beckett and the maternal, Beckett and reader response. I am also researching espionage fiction, contemporary poetry, the Cold War and the construction of Europe.

Publications

Books

  • Piette A & Rawlinson M (2012) The Edinburgh companion to twentieth-century British and American war literature.
  • Piette A & Rawlinson M (2012) The Edinburgh companion to twentieth-century British and American war literature.
  • Piette A (2012) Introduction: The wars of the twentieth century.
  • Piette A (2009) The literary Cold War, 1945 to Vietnam. Edinburgh University Press.
  • Piette A (2009) THE LITERARY COLD WAR, 1945 TO VIETNAM.
  • Piette A (1996) Remembering and the Sound of Words: Mallarmé, Proust, Joyce, Beckett: Mallarme, Proust, Joyce, Beckett. Clarendon Press.
  • Piette A (1995) Imagination at war : British fiction and poetry, 1939-1945. Papermac.

Edited books

  • (Ed.) (2012) The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature. Edinbrugh: Edinburgh University Press.
  • Piette A, Lehoczky A, Sansom P & Sansom A (Eds.) (2012) The Sheffield Anthology: Poems from the City Imagined. Sheffield: Smith/Dorrstop.
  • Piette A & Lehoczky A (Ed.) (2012) Wordwards. Mass Observation.
  • (Ed.) (2007) The Salt Companion to Peter Robinson. Cambridge: Salt Publishing.
  • Piette A (Ed.) (2003) Modernism and Translation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Journal articles

  • Piette A (2023) . Textual Practice, 37(7), 1099-1115.
  • Piette A (2022) . The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society, 21(2), 146-145.
  • Piette A (2021) . Modernist Cultures, 16(4), 469-487.
  • Piette A (2021) . The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society, 21(1), 13-30.
  • Piette A (2018) . Textual Practice, 32(9), 1577-1591.
  • Piette A (2018) . French Studies, 72(3), 463-464.
  • Piette A (2016) . Journal of Medical Humanities, 37(2), 161-169.
  • Piette A (2014) . Translation and Literature, 23(3), 424-427.
  • Piette AC (2014) Ending the Mother Ghost: Beckett’s Ill Seen Ill Said and Rockaby. Complutense Journal of English Studies, 22, 81-90.
  • Piette AC (2013) Childhood Wiped Out: Larkin, His Father, and the Bombing of Coventry. English, 62(238), 230-247.
  • Piette A (2013) . European Journal of English Studies, 17(2), 214-216.
  • Piette A (2012) . Translation and Literature, 21(2), 275-282.
  • Piette A (2012) Polaroidy: The revels of Geraldine Monk. Poetry Review, 102(2), 85-88.
  • Piette A (2011) . Textual Practice, 25(2), 281-295.
  • Piette A (2010) . Theory Culture Society, 27(5), 86-106.
  • Piette AC (2010) Activist Poetics in the Cold War: Grace Paley, Denise Levertov. PN Review, 36(4), 59-63.
  • Piette A (2009) . Translation and Literature, 18(2), 269-275.
  • Piette A (2009) Nigh-No-Place. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES, 13(2), 241-245.
  • Piette A (2009) Charlestown Blues: Selected Poems. TRANSLATION AND LITERATURE, 18, 269-275.
  • Piette A (2009) Between Cup and Lip. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES, 13, 241-245.
  • Piette A (2009) Collected Poems. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES, 13(2), 241-245.
  • Piette AC (2008) . Cultural Politics, 4(3), 309-329.
  • Piette AC (2008) . Translation and Literature, 17(1), 21-46.
  • Goldberg RA (2007) . The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 38(2), 258-259.
  • Piette AC (2007) Hearing Herbert ‘In Deniall’. The Reader, 91-95.
  • Piette AC (2007) Recalcitrant Poems: Thomas Hardy’s ‘Hap’. The Reader(24), 62-66.
  • Piette AC (2007) Autumnal Emblems and the Singing Voice: Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73. The Reader, 47(44), 44-47.
  • Piette AC (2006) The Love of Poetry and Looking Closely in W.S. Graham’s ‘Untidy Dreadful Table’. The Reader(21), 66-70.
  • Piette AC (2006) Syntax and Old Style in Basil Bunting’s Seventh Ode. The Reader(21), 64-68.
  • Piette AC (2005) Accent and Mouthed Words in Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Originally’. The Reader(19), 77-81.
  • Piette AC (2005) Images and Names in Susan Wicks’s ‘Vocabulary’. The Reader(20), 65-68.
  • Piette AC (2005) Mixed Vocal Tone and War History in Auden’s ‘Fleet Visit’’. The Reader(17), 58-62.
  • Piette AC (2005) Ballad Scansion in Robert Graves’ ‘Counting the Beats’. The Reader(18), 77-80.
  • PIETTE A (2004) . Journal of American Studies, 38(3), 503-506.
  • Piette AC (2004) Communication, Culture, Community and the Idea of Europe. European English Messenger, 1(13), 18-23.
  • Piette AC (2004) Sestinas and Normative Form in Paul Muldoon’s ‘Wire’. The Reader(15), 54-58.
  • Piette AC (2004) 'Incarnate Disclosure’ and Lawrence’s ‘First Morning’. The Reader(16), 74-80.
  • Piette AC (2004) Allusion and Historical Landscape in Roy Fisher’s ‘Gradbach Hill’. The Reader(14), 52-56.
  • Piette A (2003) . Translation and Literature, 12(1), 1-17.
  • Piette AC (2003) Internal Rhyme & Denise Riley’s ‘Song’. The Reader(12), 75-77.
  • Piette AC (2003) Pronouns and Place in Bernard Spencer’s ‘In Athens’. The Reader(13), 49-54.
  • Piette A (2002) . Theatre Research International, 27(1), 97-119.
  • Piette AC (2002) Death, The War Poet, History's 'Angry Play': Douglas, Keyes, Millard, Gutteridge. Lucknow Journal of English Studies(1), 41-50.
  • Piette AC (2002) Rhythm in Ivor Gurney’s ‘On Somme’. The Reader(10), 70-73.
  • Piette AC (2002) The Caesura and Kathleen Jamie’s ‘Rooms’. The Reader(11), 53-56.
  • Piette AC (2001) Performance, Subjectivity and Slander in Hamlet and Much Ado ¾Ã²Ý¸£Àû Nothing. Early Modern Literary Studies, 2(7), 1-29.
  • Piette AC (2001) Justifying Poems: A Reading of Berryman's Dream Song 260. The Reader(8), 59-64.
  • Piette AC (2001) Rhyme in Peter Robinson’s ‘Air’. The Reader(9), 41-43.
  • Piette AC (2000) Writing the Nation at War: George Orwell, Alan Ross, and Sidney Keyes. Precursors and Aftermaths: Literature in English, 1914-1945, 1(1), 65-75.
  • Piette AC (1999) Pat Barker. Post-War Literature in English: A Lexicon of Contemporary Authors(45), 1-24.
  • Piette AC (1999) Vladimir Nabokov. Post-War Literature in English: A Lexicon of Contemporary Authors(44), 1-25.
  • Piette AC (1999) Beckett's Proustian Critique of Joyce. New Comparison(11), 113-126.
  • Piette AC (1998) Harmony, Polyphony, Ornamentation: Musical Rhetoric in Jonson's Hymenaei and Crashaw's 'Musicks Duell'. Angelaki, 2(3), 119-132.
  • Piette AC (1995) Against the Politics of History and Story: The Heat of the Day. The Bowen ¾Ã²Ý¸£Àûletter, 3, 9-11.
  • Piette AC (1995) Eliot's Breakdown and Dr. Vittoz. English Language Notes, 1(33), 35-39.
  • Piette AC (1993) Fear of Numbers' : Hazlitt, Wordsworth, Malthus and Overpopulation. Etudes de lettres, 55-68.
  • PIETTE A (1992) 'MAIS, QUAND-MEME MONSIEUR, VOUS EXAGEREZ' + STRICKLAND,G. ON TRANSLATIONS, IMITATIONS AND TRAVESTIES - REPLY. CAMBRIDGE QUARTERLY, 21(2), 174-177.
  • Piette A (1992) . The Cambridge Quarterly, XXI(2), 174-177.
  • PIETTE A (1991) IMITATIONS, NEW AIR AND RELISH + TRANSLATIONS OF DRYDEN, DONNE AND RIMBAUD. CAMBRIDGE QUARTERLY, 20(2), 95-117.
  • Piette AC (1991) Imitations: New Air and Relish. Cambridge Quarterly, 2(20), 95-117.

Book chapters

  • Piette A (2024) Lynette Roberts's Gods with Stainless Ears and the poetics of propaganda, BRITISH WRITING, PROPAGANDA AND CULTURAL DIPLOMACY IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND BEYOND (pp. 179-195).
  • Piette A (2023) 'Cast a cold eye': death in wartime In Arrington L & Campbell M (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of W.B. Yeats (pp. 281-296). Oxford University Press
  • Piette A (2023) 'The summoning urgent thing': The Bull Calves and the drive to experiment at mid-century, Naomi Mitchison A Writer in Time (pp. 122-134).
  • Piette A (2023) War and Nuclear Criticism, WAR AND LITERARY STUDIES (pp. 336-351).
  • Piette A (2022) In Brophy J & Davies W (Ed.), Samuel Beckett's Poetry (pp. 189-202). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Piette A (2021) Peter Robinson and European Integration In Phillips T (Ed.), Peter Robinson: A Portrait of his Work (pp. 106-123).
  • Piette A (2021) Mid-Century Nonsense and Destructive Mockery, Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense (pp. 114-126).
  • Piette A (2020) , The Palgrave Handbook of Cold War Literature (pp. 345-365). Springer International Publishing
  • Piette A (2019) The Security State Citizen and the Global Cold War: Beckett, Greene, Kavan, Ballard In Belletto S & Keith J (Ed.), Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War (pp. 187-203). University of Iowa Press
  • Piette A (2018) , British Literature in Transition, 1940–1960: Postwar (pp. 161-175). Cambridge University Press
  • Piette A (2018) The war story In Delaney P & Hunter A (Ed.), Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English (pp. 211-224). Edinburgh University Press
  • Piette A (2018) Poetry, the Early Cold War and the Idea of Europe In Plain G (Ed.), 1940-1960: Postwar (pp. 161-175). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Piette A (2018) The War Story In Hunter A & Delaney P (Ed.), Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English (pp. 211-224). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
  • Piette AC (2018) In Houen A & Schramm J (Ed.), Sacrifice and Modern War Literature: The Battle of Waterloo to the War on Terror Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Piette AC (2017) 'my soldiers’: F.T. Prince and the Sweetness of Command In May W (Ed.), Reading F. T. Prince Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
  • Piette A (2017) Memory, Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism the Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism (pp. 232-235).
  • Piette A (2017) Translation, Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism the Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism (pp. 379-383).
  • Piette A (2017) War, Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism the Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism (pp. 392-396).
  • Piette AC (2016) Sputniks, Ice-Picks, G.P.U.: Nabokov's Pale Fire In Eckel L & Elliott C (Ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies (pp. 357-370). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
  • Piette AC (2016) Deep Geological Disposal and Radioactive Time: Beckett, Bowen, Nirex and Onkalo In Beck J & Bishop R (Ed.), Cold War Legacies: Systems, Theory, Aesthetics (pp. 102-115). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,.
  • Piette AC (2016) 'Now listen, Mr Leer!': Joyce's Lear In Bevis M & Williams J (Ed.), Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry (pp. 281-299). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Piette AC (2016) Torture, Text, Human Rights: Beckett’s Comment c’est/ How It Is and the Algerian War In Hepburn A (Ed.), Around 1945 Literature, Citizenship, Rights (pp. 151-174). Montreal: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP.
  • Piette AC (2016) Postwar Espionage Fiction: Memory and Fascism in Emergency-State Thinking In Rau P (Ed.), Long Shadows: The Second World War in British Fiction and Film (pp. 177-196). Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press.
  • Piette AC (2015) Cold War Morgan In Riach A (Ed.), The International Companion to Edwin Morgan (pp. 87-100). Scottish Literature International
  • Piette A (2015) War and the short story: Elizabeth Bowen, British Women Short Story Writers the New Woman to Now (pp. 66-80).
  • Piette AC (2015) War and the Short Story: Elizabeth Bowen In Young E & Bailey J (Ed.), British Women Short Story Writers: The New Woman to Now (pp. 66-80). Edinburgh University Press
  • Piette AC (2015) In Davis A & Jenkins L (Ed.), A History of Modernist Poetry (pp. 417-433). Cambridge University Press
  • Piette A (2014) Beckett's Ill Seen Ill Said: Reading the subject, subject to reading, Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts (pp. 320-329).
  • Piette A (2014) (pp. 195-209). Wiley
  • Piette AC (2014) War and Division in Parade’s End In Chantler A & Hawkes R (Ed.), Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End: The First World War, Culture, and Modernity (pp. 141-152). Amsterdam: Rodopi.
  • Piette AC (2012) Bernard Spencer's Wars In Robinson P (Ed.), Bernard Spencer: Essays on his Poetry & Life (pp. 88-103). Bristol: Shearsman.
  • (2012) , The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature (pp. 475-478). Edinburgh University Press
  • (2012) , The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature (pp. 427-430). Edinburgh University Press
  • Piette AC (2012) The Fictions of Nuclear War, from Hiroshima to Vietnam In Piette A & Rawlinson M (Ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature (pp. 160-171). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
  • (2012) INTRODUCTION: SPACES, EDINBURGH COMPANION TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITISH AND AMERICAN WAR LITERATURE (pp. 427-430).
  • (2012) INTRODUCTION: GENRES, EDINBURGH COMPANION TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITISH AND AMERICAN WAR LITERATURE (pp. 475-478).
  • Piette AC (2010) Muriel Spark and the Politics of the Contemporary In Gardiner M & Maley W (Ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark (pp. 52-62). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
  • Piette AC (2010) Beckett's Eve: Ill Seen Ill Said and the Miltonic Attendance Motif In Stirling K & Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère M (Ed.), After Satan: Essays in Honour of Neil Forsyth (pp. 165-180). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Piette AC (2010) Mothers, Mirrors, Doubles: Anne Stevenson’s Elegies for Sylvia Plath In Leighton A (Ed.), Voyages over Voices: Critical Essays on Anne Stevenson (pp. 55-70). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
  • Piette AC (2009) War Zones In McLoughlin K (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to War Writing (pp. 38-46). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Piette AC (2009) War Poetry in Britain In MacKay M (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the World War II (pp. 13-25). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Piette AC (2008) Keith Douglas and the Poetry of the Second World War’ In Corcoran N (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry (pp. 117-130). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Piette AC (2007) Pointing to East and West: British Cold War Poetry’ In Kendall T (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry (pp. 632-652). Oxford University Press
  • Piette AC (2007) Empson, Piaget and the Logic of the Child in Wartime In Bevis M (Ed.), Some Versions of Empson (pp. 42-59). OUP Oxford
  • Piette AC (2007) Left to their own Devices In Robinson P (Ed.), Talk ¾Ã²Ý¸£Àû Poetry: Conversations on the Art (pp. 111-123).
  • Piette AC (2007) Reed, Greene and the Freudian Cold War: From The Third Man to the Third World In Kerkinos, Dimitris & Moizaka, Desmoina (Ed.), Carol Reed (pp. 51-55). Thessaloniki: Papyrus.
  • Piette AC (2007) Keith Douglas and the Poetry of the Second World War In Corcoran N (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry (pp. 117-130). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Piette AC (2005) Breaking Down or Breaking Out?: Pat Barker in conversation with Adam Piette’ In Saunders C & Macnaughton J (Ed.), Madness and Creativity in Literature and Culture (pp. 222-236). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Piette AC (2004) World War II: Contested Europe In Marcus L & Nicholls P (Ed.), The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature (pp. 417-435).
  • Piette AC (2004) 'Roaring between the Lines': W.S. Graham and the White Threshold of Line-Breaks In Pite R & Jones H (Ed.), W.S. Graham: Speaking Towards You (pp. 44-62). Liverpool University Press
  • Piette AC (2002) Travel-Writing and the Imperial Subject in 1930s Prose: Waugh, Bowen, Smith, and Orwell In Siegel K (Ed.), Issues in travel writing (pp. 53-65). Peter Lang Pub Inc
  • Piette AC (1996) Finnegans Wake and Familial Memory In Senn W (Ed.), Families (pp. 249-256).
  • Piette AC (1994) Sound-Repetitions and Sense, or How to Hear Tennyson In Fischer A (Ed.), Repetition (pp. 157-169).
  • Piette AC (1993) Beckett, Early Neuropschology and Memory Loss: Beckett's reading of Claparède, Janet and Korsakoff In Buning M (Ed.), Beckett in the 1990s (pp. 41-48). Rodopi
  • Piette A () , The Oxford Handbook of W.B. Yeats (pp. 281-296). Oxford University Press

Book reviews

  • Piette A (2019) . French Studies, 73(3), 479-480.
  • Piette A (2014) . European Journal of English Studies, 18(3), 341-347.
  • Piette A (2014) Translating the Perception of Text: Literary Translation and Phenomenology. TRANSLATION AND LITERATURE, 23(3), 424-427.
  • Piette A (2014) Literary Translation and the Rediscovery of Reading. TRANSLATION AND LITERATURE, 23(3), 424-427.
  • Piette A (2013) Review of open sesame; Dionysus Crucified; The Backlists; Fair’s Fair. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES, 17(2), 214-216.
  • Piette A (2013) Impotence and Making in Samuel Beckett's Trilogy 'Molloy, Malone Dies' and 'The Unnamable' and 'How It Is'. FRENCH STUDIES, 67(3), 436-437.
  • Piette A (2013) Say It: The Performative Voice in the Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett. FRENCH STUDIES, 67(3), 436-437.
  • Piette A (2013) Archives of Authority: Empire, Culture, and the Cold War. LITERATURE & HISTORY-THIRD SERIES, 22(1), 149-151.
  • Piette A (2013) Fair's Fair. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES, 17(2), 214-216.
  • Piette A (2012) The Poetry of Translation: From Chaucer and Petrarch to Homer and Logue.. TRANSLATION AND LITERATURE, 21, 275-282.
  • Piette A (2012) Poetry and Translation: The Art of the Impossible.. TRANSLATION AND LITERATURE, 21, 275-282.
  • Piette A (2012) . EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES, 16(2), 175-180.
  • Piette A (2011) . James Joyce Quarterly, 48(4), 782-784.
  • Piette A (2011) . THEORY CULTURE & SOCIETY, 28(7-8), 390-395.
  • Piette A (2010) . Modernism/modernity, 17(4), 953-955.
  • Piette A (2010) . French Studies, 64(3), 363-364.
  • Piette A (2010) . EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES, 14, 191-121.
  • Piette A (2009) . Translation and Literature, 18(1), 130-137.
  • Piette A (2009) Songs of Absence. TRANSLATION AND LITERATURE, 18, 269-275.
  • Piette A (2009) A Smile Between the Stones. TRANSLATION AND LITERATURE, 18, 269-275.
  • Piette A (2007) . Translation and Literature, 16(1), 119-125.
  • Piette A (2007) Alexander Pushkin: Eugene Onegin. TRANSLATION AND LITERATURE, 16, 119-125.
  • Piette A (2007) Proust, Beckett, and Narration. COMPARATIVE CRITICAL STUDIES, 4(2), 305-308.
  • Piette A (2007) 'Horses in boiling blood'.. CHICAGO REVIEW, 53(1), 202-204.
  • Piette A (2006) . Translation and Literature, 15(1), 136-142.
  • Piette A (2006) . Essays in Criticism, 56(4), 400-409.
  • Piette A (2005) . Translation and Literature, 14(1), 122-128.
  • Piette AC (2005) ‘If Only English … From Babel to Babylon and Back: A Review. European English Messenger, 1(14), 73-76.
  • Piette A (2004) . Translation and Literature, 13(1), 114-123.

Designs

  • Piette A (2022) Igitur's dream.

Digital content

  • Piette A & Houen A (2012) Blackbox Manifold. Retrieved from
  • Piette A The Sound of Things in Alice Oswald’s Woods.
  • Piettte A & Piette A Double Wartime and the Second World War.

Scholarly editions

  • Piette AC & Lehoczky A (2012) Ebenezer Elliott, Corn Law Rhymer: Poems of Sheffield & Environs.

Other

  • Piette AC (2009) Trailing in the Wake of Story: The Poetry of Burgess Needle, i-vi.
Research group

I welcome research students working in any area of modernism, those interested in war studies, particularly the Cold War in literature, and would be happy to supervise projects on Joyce, Beckett, Proust, French-English comparative work, research into 20th century and contemporary poetry, and am willing to work with creative writing students.

Teaching activities

I teach on the Modern and Contemporary Literature core modules, approved modules on Cold War Fiction and Film, and Irish Fiction, and help convene the Creative Writing MA programme.