Dr Luke Thurston
BA (Oxon) MA PhD (Kent)
Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature
Contact Details
- Email: lut@aber.ac.uk
- Office: D57, Hugh Owen Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 622389
- Research Portal Profile
Teaching
Module Coordinator
Lecturer
- EN11300 -
- EN20820 - Twentieth Century British Literature
- EN22920 - Literature since 1945
- EN10520 - Contemporary Writing
- WL10020 - Issues in Contemporary World Literatures
- EN11320 - Critical Practice
- EN10020 -
Luke teaches Victorian, modern and contemporary literature, specializing in the period 1880-1940; and also literary theory, specializing in psychoanalysis and literary ghosts. He welcomes PhD proposals in the following areas: Modernism (especially Joyce, Beckett, Woolf, David Jones, May Sinclair); literature and ghosts; literature and war; literature and psychoanalysis.
Research
Luke Thurston is the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story (2018) and the author of Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism: the Haunting Interval (2012). https://www.routledge.com/products/search?author=Luke%20Thurston
His other publications include James Joyce and the Problem of Psychoanalysis (2004) and Re-inventing the Symptom: Essays on the Final Lacan (2002)
Dr Thurston has recently completed the translation of Jean Lapanche's major work The Unfinished Copernican Revolution, which will be published in 2019
Director of the David Jones Centre
Main research interests are in modernism, literary ghosts, literature and war and Welsh writing in English. Luke is currently working on a study of modernism, war and testimony in Wyndham Lewis, May Sinclair and David Jones.
Research interests are the theory and practice of psychoanalysis; he has translated works by Jean Laplanche, Andre Green and Roberto Harari, and he is on the Editorial Board of the Journal for Lacanian Studies.
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