Niall Munro

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ABOUT NIALL MUNRO

There are more details about my teaching and research on my staff page on the Oxford Brookes University website: teach on numerous undergraduate courses in the School of Education, Humanities and Languages at Oxford Brookes, including those about American literature, writing about the American Civil War. I also teach on the MA in English Studies, supervise undergraduate and postgraduate studies about British and American writing of the twentieth century, and work with researchers on PhD projects about American and modernist writings. I am also the Subject Coordinator for English Literature at undergraduate level.I am the Director of the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre which runs a multi-award-winning poetry pamphlet press called ignitionpress, encourages research into poetry, and organizes projects in the community and beyond.My first book, published in 2015 by Palgrave Macmillan, was about the American modernist poet Hart Crane and entitled Hart Crane\'s Queer Modernist Aesthetic. My recent research focusses on the literary memory of the American Civil War and this is the subject of my current book project, ‘Our only “felt history”’: American modernism and the Civil War\'. This focus on commemoration, developed through a 20••••18 research project, Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation (funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and in collaboration with Dr Kate McLoughlin, Dr Catherine Gilbert (both - at the time - University of Oxford), and The Oxford Research Centre into the Humanities (TORCH)), has led to a broader concern with how writing, especially poetry, is used to commemorate, the relationship between literature and public space, and how cultural memory can have disruptive effects in society, especially after war.Together with Dr Tinashe Mushakavanhu (University of Oxford), I recently completed a project called Disruptive Dialogues: the Legacy of Dambudzo Marechera in Harare and Oxford. Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme based at TORCH, this was a critical-creative project designed to reflect on Marechera\'s presence in both cities during the 1970s-80s and his influence today.Areas of teaching and research: twentieth-century poetry, American modernism, modern and contemporary American poetry, writing, memory and commemoration (especially after war), and queer theory.