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Dr Michael Greaney

Senior Lecturer in English Literature

Degree: BA (Oxford), MA (Newcastle), PhD (Lancaster)

Current Teaching

English 201: The Theory and Practice of Criticism

Research Interests

Michael Greaney has studied at the Universities of Oxford, Newcastle and Lancaster. He has taught on The Theory and Practice of Criticism, From Decadence to Modernism, Contemporary Fiction and Critical Theory, and Contemporary British Fiction.

His research interests lie in modern/contemporary fiction and theory. His first book, Conrad, Language, and Narrative (Cambridge University Press, 2002), received the Joseph Conrad Society of America's Adam Gillon Award for the most significant work in Conrad studies from 2001-4. Contemporary Fiction and the Uses of Theory (Palgrave, 2006) is a study ofthe reception and representation of theoretical ideas in literary fiction since the 1960s. His current research is on narratives of insomnia in contemporary fiction and film.

Current postgraduate students:

Lucy Perry (2008- ), Ageing in Modern/Contemporary Literature

Select Publications

Contemporary Fiction and the Uses of Theory: The Novel from Structuralism to Postmodernism (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

Conrad, Language, and Narrative (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).

'Terribly Strange Beds: Conrad, Sleep and Modernism', The Conradian 37:1 (Spring 2012), 1-19.

'Questioning Short Stories: Joyce, Barnes and Simpson', in Teaching the Short Story, ed. Ailsa Cox (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010), pp. 28-42.

'Sleep in Modern Fiction', Literature Compass 7:6 (2010), 467-76.

'The Novelist on Holiday: Martin Amis and the Short Story', in The Short Story, ed. Ailsa Cox (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008), pp. 130-141.

'Violence and the Sacred in the Fiction of Julia Kristeva', Theology & Sexuality 14:3 (May 2008), 293-304.

'Stories of Work in Heart of Darkness', in Beyond the Roots: The Evolution of Conrad's Ideology and Art, ed. Wieslaw Krajka (Boulder: Eastern European Monographs, 2006), pp. 81-94.

'Lord Jim and Embarrassment', in Lord Jim: Centennial Essays, eds Allan H. Simmons and J. H. Stape (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2000), pp. 1-14.

Potential Doctoral Proposals

Joseph Conrad

Modern and Contemporary British Fiction

Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database

Michael Greaney has 2 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk

Greaney, M. J. (2006) Contemporary Fiction and the Uses of Theory: The Novel from Structuralism to Postmodernism. Palgrave. ISBN 1403991464

Greaney, M. J. (2002) Conrad, Language, and Narrative. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0521807549

Associated Keyword: English

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