Diarmid Sullivan
email - d.sullivan.1@research.gla.ac.uk
Research title: Ruskin, Proust & Sebald: Romanticism, Composition & Autobiography
Research Summary
My current research is on Romanticism and autobiography in John Ruskin, Marcel Proust & W.G. Sebald, where I am examining their compositional aesthetics and vicarious forms of autobiography. My MLitt dissertation was on the Proustian sentence in Sebald’s Austerlitz, which I am in the process of editing for publication.
Areas of Interest
- Ruskin
- Proust
- Sebald
- European Romanticism
- Autobiographical &Travel Writing
- Nabokov
- Edward Lear
- Geoffrey Hill
- Memory Studies
Supervisors
Conference
- ‘Proustian Structures in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz’: Mood: Aesthetic, Pscyhological and Philosophical Perspectives; Univeristy of Warwick, May 6 – 7th 2016
Teaching
- English Literature 2B: Writing & Text
