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Angus McFadzean
Dr Angus McFadzean is the Programme Director of the Oxford University Summer School for Adults and teaches on international programmes at the Department for Continuing Education, specialising in British and American Literature and Film. He is the author of Suburban Fantastic Cinema: Growing Up in the Late Twentieth Century (Columbia University Press, 2019) and the co-editor of James Joyce’s Epiphanies: A Critical Edition, forthcoming from University Press of Florida (2024). He has published on James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon and Hollywood cinema and has taught widely on literature of the late nineteenth early twentieth century, specifically modernism and the works of Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf and WB Yeats.
Courses
Explore the Irish Literary Revival of the early 20th century. The works of W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and J.M. Synge will be placed in the context of the Irish Home Rule movement and the events leading to the Easter Rising of 1916. Join online or in Oxford.
A day school focusing on Anglo-Scottish writers of the late Victorian period. Stories of imperial adventure by R.L. Stevenson and Arthur Conan Doyle will be placed in the context of the crisis of the British Empire and the question of Scottish identity.
Hybrid day event focusing on the Scottish Literary Renaissance of the early 20th century. The works of Hugh MacDiarmid, Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Edwin Muir will be placed in the context of the decline of rural life, industrialisation and the shock of WW1.