School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies

Profile

Rod came to the University of Portsmouth in 2012 after ten years lecturing at Newbold College of Higher Education, a small private institution in Berkshire. He has taught broadly, across periods and disciplines, but is currently teaching in areas of American literature and modern narrative fiction. His research focuses primarily on Anglo-American modernism and its cultural contexts, with particular interest in literary movements, networks, innovation and cultural value in the twentieth century. He has published work on late modernism, on modernist trust and questions of fraudulence or deception, on James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, modernist celebrity and mid-century fantasy.

Monographs

Modernism, the Market and the Institution of the New (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009; pbk, 2012)

Edited Collections

Incredible Modernism: Literature, Trust and Deception, co-edited with John Attridge (forthcoming: Ashgate, 2013)

Refereed Book Chapters

• ‘Trusting Personality: Modernist Memoir and its Audience’ in Incredible Modernism, eds. John Attridge and Rod Rosenquist (forthcoming: Ashgate, 2013)
• ‘Afterword’ in Incredible Modernism, eds. John Attridge and Rod Rosenquist (forthcoming: Ashgate, 2013)
• ‘Myth, Fact and ‘Literary Belief’: Imagination and Post-Empiricism in C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien’ in Re-Embroidering the Robe: Faith, Myth and Literary Imagination since 1850, eds. Suzanne Bray, Adrienne E. Gavin and Peter Merchant (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008)

Other Contributions

Entries in the forthcoming Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism; book reviews for the Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies; two essays in online journal Flashpoint ; short works of fiction published in small literary journals.

Recent Conference Papers

• ‘Recalling the Modernist Generation(s): Literary memoir as literary history’ at ‘Generation-M’ conference, University of Amsterdam, May 2012
• ‘Characters of 1910, Men of 1914: Woolf and Wyndham Lewis as literary historians’ at ‘The December 1910 Centenary Conference’, University of Glasgow, December 2010
• ‘Rewriting the Modern:  Literary memoirs and late modernism’ (invited) for London Modernism Seminar, Institute of English Studies, University of London, Nov 2010
• ‘Trusting Artists, Trusting Tales: Modernism, Memoir and Personality’ at Modernist Studies Association Conference #11, Montreal, Quebec, November 2009
• ‘Blasting and Bombardiering’ (invited) for Wyndham Lewis Reading Group, Institute of English Studies, University of London, December 2008
• ‘Genre & Genius: The Modernist Literary Memoir and Popular Modernism’ at Rethinking Genre, Royal Holloway University of London, June 2008

Grants Received

• Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship, 2012-13
• Donald C. Gallup Fellowship in American Literature, Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Yale University, 2013
• Honorary Research Fellowship, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2010 - Present
• Overseas Research Student Award, Universities UK, 1999 – 2002
• College Research Studentship, Royal Holloway University of London, 1999 – 2002