Bath Spa University

Faculty Member, School of Humanities and Cultural Industries

Head of School

About

Tim is Head of the School of Humanities & Cultural Industries, Dean of International Relations and  Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Bath Spa University.

He has research interests in the work of Joseph Conrad, Anglo-American modernism and contemporary British and American fiction and culture. He is a member of the School's contemporary writing research group. His current research explores the function of the literary in contemporary culture via studies of real and imagined literary locations in cultural heritage tourism.

In addition to his School and University management duties Tim teaches classes on the writing and culture of Los Angeles and convenes seminars on modernism and on gender theory. He has supervised numerous MA dissertations on topics across his research areas. He has supervised a number of Phd students in Creative Writing, English Literature, and Visual Culture.


Tim has published on a wide variety of writers, including D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Iain Banks, Will Self, Patrick McCabe, Colm Toibin, and Joseph O'Connor. He is co-author (with Professor Judy Giles of York St John University) of Writing Englishness (Routledge, 1995) and the textbook Studying Culture: A Practical Introduction (Blackwell,1999): this work was translated into Korean in 2000 and is widely used as a text book in Europe and the US: a second edition, commissioned by the publishers, was published in 2008. This new edition includes additional sections on cultural geography developed out of teaching materials created for his class on writing and Los Angeles. Tim has also edited a 5 volume cultural and critical history of Modernism (Routledge, 2003) and contributed the new and revised entries on contemporary Scottish and Irish authors to the new Cambridge Guide to English Literature (CUP, 2006). He recently completed work on a student guide to the work of Joseph Conrad (Routledge, 2006)

He is a long-standing member of the executive committee of the Joseph Conrad Society UK and assists in the production of the website and contributes to the planning of the annual conference

He is currently developing work on a project about literature and locality, provisionally entitled Literary Journeys: Writing and Location.

In relation to his developing interest in literary tourism, Tim was  invited by SW Tourism to be on the Steering Group for the Sustainable Rural Tourism Investment under The Rural Development Programme for England. Tim was also a member of the SW Creative Economy Forum.

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