Professor Bryony Randall
- Professor of Modernist Literature / Dean of Graduate Studies (English Literature)
telephone:
01413306823
email:
Bryony.Randall@glasgow.ac.uk
Room 309, 5 University Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8QQ
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5502-1296Research interests
Biography
Bryony Randall is Professor of Modernist Literature. Her primary research interests are in modernist narrative fiction, editing modernism, and literature and the everyday. She has related interests in literary theory (particularly feminist and materialist approaches), women’s writing, literature and work, and literature and time.
Professor Randall is co-General editor with Jane Goldman and Susan Sellers of the Cambridge University Press edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf, and is also editing the CUP edition of Virginia Woolf's short fiction. She is editing The Trap for the forthcoming Oxford University Press edition of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage. She was PI on the AHRC-funded network on the New Modernist Editing, 2016-17, and the ARHC-funded Imprints of the New Modernist Editing impact and engagement project, and is co-director of the Textual Editing Lab at the University of Glasgow.
Her monograph Modernism, Daily Time and Everyday Life was published by Cambridge University Press (2007); she is co-editor with Jane Goldman of Virginia Woolf in Context (CUP, 2013); and she has published on a range of authors and topics in modernist and protomodernist literature including Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Richardson, Gertrude Stein, H.D., and fin de siècle short fiction. She is co-founder and treasurer of the Scottish Network of Modernist Studies, and is on the editorial board of the journal Pilgrimages: the journal of Dorothy Richardson studies. Other ongoing research interests include the working woman writer 1880-1920, exploring the relationships between work, writing and gender in the early modernist period; and the one-day novel in twentieth and twenty-first century literature.
Publications
Selected publications
Randall, B. (2021) ‘Angles and surfaces declared themselves intimately’: intimate things in Dorothy Richardson’s The Trap. In: Högberg, E. (ed.) Modernist Intimacies. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9781474441834
Randall, B. (2020) Introduction: editing and collaboration. Modernist Cultures, 15(1), pp. 1-11. (doi: 10.3366/mod.2020.0276)
Randall, B. (2018) The day of Orlando. In: Högberg, E. and Bromley, A. (eds.) Sentencing Orlando: Virginia Woolf and the Morphology of the Modernist Sentence. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781474414609 (doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474414609.001.0001)
Randall, B. (2017) New Modernist Editing: Ode written partly in prose on seeing the name of Cutbush above a butcher's shop in Pentonville. [Website]
Randall, B. (2016) A day’s time: the one-day novel and the temporality of the everyday. New Literary History, 47(4), pp. 591-610. (doi: 10.1353/nlh.2016.0031)
Randall, B. (2015) ‘[T]hey would have been the first to correct that sentence’: correcting Virginia Woolf’s short fiction. Textus: English Studies in Italy, 3, pp. 75-94.
Randall, B. and Goldman, J. (Eds.) (2013) Virginia Woolf in Context. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9781107003613
Randall, B. (2010) 'Telling the day' in Beatrice Potter Webb and Dorothy Richardson: the temporality of the working woman. Modernist Cultures, 5(2), pp. 243-266. (doi: 10.3366/mod.2010.0105)
Randall, B. (2007) Modernism, Daily Time and Everyday Life. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780521879842
All publications
Supervision
Professor Randall welcomes postgraduate research proposals in any of her areas of interest. She is currently co-supervising projects on topics including Virginia Woolf and utopia; the feminist politics of the work of Mina Loy; Sapphic modernisms; and a digital creative writing project on the women's short story cycle. She has also co-supervised projects on Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage as double autobiography; the politics of aesthetics in modernist fiction; H.D. and mysticism; contemporary literature and work; and a creative/critical project on realism. She particularly welcomes any students interested in working on modernism and editing, or literature and the everyday.
- Dobson, Imogen
Sex Workers in Contemporary Literature - Farrell, Molly
Coded Desires: Queer expression in womxn-authored modernisms, 1895-1928 - Speed, Hannah
Women’s life-writing and the suffrage campaign in Scotland c.1870s-1970s. - Tang, Yan
The Author Reshaped: The Image of Virginia Woolf as a Female Modernist in Chinese Translations.
