Gary Day

School of English, Performance and Historical Studies

Principal Lecturer in English

Contact Details:
Room: CL 2.20
Telephone: 0116 250 6313
Email: gday@dmu.ac.uk

I have worked at De Montfort since 1995. My main areas of interest are class and the history of criticism. I am the author of Class (2001) and Re-Reading Leavis: Culture and Literary Criticism (1996) and have edited a number of books on literature and culture, including the new casebook on Lawrence’s The Rainbow and Women in Love. I have contributed to the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism and The Oxford  Guide to Criticism and Theory. I am a columnist for the Times Higher and Membership Secretary for The British Society of Eighteenth Century Studies.  At present I am writing a history of literary criticism for Edinburgh University Press.

Responsibilities

• MA Programme Leader MA English

Teaching Experience

• Undergraduate – Drama, Eighteenth Century and Modernism
• Postgraduate MA English
• External examiner at for undergraduate and PhD levels

Education

• Literature BA (Class One) Essex 1978
• PGCE Sussex 1984
• MA Cardiff 1994
• PhD Cardiff 1996

Research students are invited in History of Criticism, eighteenth-century writing and Englishness.

Research and publications