Dr Luke Thurston
BA (Oxon) MA PhD (Kent)
Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature
Department of English & Creative Writing
Contact Details
- Email: lut@aber.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0001-8192-5010
- Office:D57 Hugh Owen Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 622389
- Research Portal Profile (https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/persons/a59f4022-2360-4c1d-a74d-93e7ce0a73d1)
Luke is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature, whose teaching covers mainly Victorian and modernist literature, as well as literary theory. He is an internationally-recognized scholar who has been writing on psychoanalysis and literature for more than two decades, and whose more recent work on the ghost story has contributed to significant new developments in literary studies. Luke worked as a postgraduate student in Paris, and has translated several important books by French psychoanalysts, including André Green and Jean Laplanche.
- AB1 Reading Theory / Reading Text (EN30120)
- AB1 Haunting Texts (EN30820)
- AB2 Reading Ulysses (ENM3120)
Module Coordinator
- AB1 Critical Practice (EN11320)
- AB1 Independent Research Project (WL30140)
- AB2 Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century (EN21220)
- AB1 Literature since the '60s (EN22920)
- AB2 Place and Self (EN22120)
- AB2 Reading Ulysses (ENM3120)
Lecturer
- AB1 Literature since 1945 (EN22920)
Moderator
- Tuesday 10am-12
Luke's main research interests are in modernist literature, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, the ghost story, literature and war, Welsh and Irish writing in English. He has published on Dickens, M. R. James, Joyce, Henry James, May Sinclair, Wyndham Lewis, David Jones, Beckett, Pessoa, Elizabeth Bowen, Margaret Oliphant, Freud, Lacan and Laplanche. He is a member of the Editorial Committee for a new edition of the works of May Sinclair, currently in production with Edinburgh University Press. Luke is the translator of several works by Jean Laplanche, including most recently The Unfinished Copernican Revolution (2020) and is Director of the David Jones Centre
In 2010 Luke took part in a film about Joyce, psychoanalysis and Trieste, made by an Italian television company. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl4zk3UmV54
Bloomsbury Handbook to James Joyce. ed. / Samuel Slote. Bloomsbury, 2025.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
The Victorian Ghost Story: An Edinburgh Companion. ed. / Andrew Smith. Edinburgh University Press, 2025. p. 285-299.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Understanding Lacan, Understanding Modernism. ed. / Thomas Waller. Bloomsbury, 2025. p. 199-212.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Taylor & Francis, 2024. 234 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
In: Vestigia, Vol. 3, No. 1, 01.12.2021, p. 191-209.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review