School of Critical Studies

My research concerns adopting & applying a radical Romantic compositional method—partly modelled on the critical-creative examples of Jeffrey C. Robinson & Jerome Rothenberg— to the interpretation of experiential writing. Both revisionary & polemical, this method attacks the conservative Romantic orthodoxies on which many of our contemporary understandings & interpretations of experiential prose still depend. Though this project depends on a strategy of drawing from many writers, for instance John Ruskin, Marcel Proust, & Romantic/Post-Romantic poets, it remains rooted in my readings of, & returns to, the writing of the German writer W.G Sebald.

My MLitt dissertation was on the Proustian sentence in Sebald’s Austerlitz; alongside editing this for publication, and the doctoral thesis, I am currently researching an article on John Ruskin & Edward Lear.

Areas of Interest:

• G. Sebald
• John Ruskin & Marcel Proust
• Romanticism/Post-Romanticism
• Auto/biographical studies
• Travel Writing
• Geoffrey Hill

https://glasgow.academia.edu/DiarmidSullivan

• Dr John Coyle
• Dr Vassiliki Kolocotroni

• ‘Proustian Structures in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz’:— Mood: Aesthetic, Pscyhological and Philosophical Perspectives; Univeristy of Warwick, May 6 – 7^th 2016.
• ‘Re/visionary Ruskin’:— Afterlives: UoG PG Conference; University of Glasgow, July 1^st- 3^rd 2020.