School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies

Profile

Bran Nicol is Reader in English (Modern and Contemporary Literature). Prior to taking up his present post at Portsmouth in 2001, he held posts at Lancaster University and Chichester University. He has written three monographs, edited a collection of essays, and published numerous essays in refereed journals as well as book chapters. His research interests are in contemporary British, European and American fiction; cultural theory, especially psychoanalysis, postmodernism and Baudrillard; and crime fiction and film.

He currently leads the research group 'Textual Theory and Practice' within the Centre for European and International Studies Research. In 2007 he was shortlisted for the Times Higher Young Academic Author of the Year Award for his book Stalking.

Qualifications
MA in English & Contemporary European Studies (University of Dundee) (1st class)
PhD in English Literature (Lancaster University)

• The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) Stalking (Reaktion Books, 2006).
• D. M. Thomas (Writers and their Work series, British Council/Northcote House, 2004).
• Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction 2nd Edition. (Palgrave, 2004).
• Postmodernism and the Contemporary Novel: A Reader (Edinburgh University Press, 2002)

Current research
Bran is currently working on a monograph entitled Private Eye: Detectives in the Cinema (Reaktion Books) and planning a book on ‘metaphysical’ detective fiction.