Diarmid Sullivan
email - d.sullivan.1@research.gla.ac.uk
Research title: Ruskin, Proust & Sebald: Romanticism, Composition & Autobiography
Research Summary
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
Supervisors
Conference
- ‘Proustian Structures in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz’:— Mood: Aesthetic, Pscyhological and Philosophical Perspectives; Univeristy of Warwick, May 6 – 7th 2016.
- ‘Re/visionary Ruskin’:— Afterlives: UoG PG Conference; University of Glasgow, July 1st- 3rd 2020.
Teaching
- English Literature 2B: Writing & Text