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EMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES
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2010-Present
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Professor Emeritus, California State University, Long Beach
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2008-2010
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Professor, California State University, Long Beach
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2005-2008
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Associate Professor, California State University, Long Beach.
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2003-2005
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Assistant Professor, California State University, Long Beach.
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1990-2003
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Part-time Lecturer, California State University, Long Beach.
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Winter 2001
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Adjunct Professor, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Fall 1996
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Adjunct Professor, University of Southern California.
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Spring 1995
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Adjunct Professor, University of California, Los Angeles.
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1989-1993
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Adjunct Professor, University of Southern California.
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1989-1990
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Adjunct Professor, University of California, Los Angeles.
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1989-1990
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Visiting Distinguished Lecturer, California State University, Long Beach.
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1987-1989
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Visiting Professor, University of California, Riverside.
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Summer 1986
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Visiting Professor, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Summer 1985
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Visiting Professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
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Summer 1976
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Visiting Professor, University of California, Los Angeles.
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EMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN
- 1985-1987 Chairman, Adult Education, Department of Extra-Mural Studies, University of London.
- 1984-1987 Senior Lecturer in Literature, Department of Extra-Mural Studies, University of London.
- 1984-1985 Adjunct Professor, University of Notre Dame, London Center, London.
- 1981-1984 Lecturer in Literature, Department of Extra-Mural Studies, University of London.
- 1964-1981 Tutor-organizer in the Arts, Extension Section, University of London.
- 1962-1964 Production Control Manager, Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd, Harlow, Essex.
- 1959-1962 Internal Management Consultant, Joseph Lucas Electrical Ltd, Birmingham.
- 1956-1959 Signals/Education Officer, Royal Air Force, Abingdon, Berks.
EDUCATION
1969-1973 PhD, English, Birkbeck College, University of London, England
(Title of doctoral dissertation: "The artistic development of D. H. Lawrence as a writer of short stories.").
1953-1956 BA (Hon.s), English and Philosophy, University of Reading, England.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
- Terrorized: How the War on Terror Affected American Culture and Society. Amazon: Kindle, 2011.
- Martin Amis. Routledge Guides to Literature. London and New York: Routledge, 2008
- English Fiction Since 1984: Narrating a Nation. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- D. H. Lawrence. Sons and Lovers: A Critical Study. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin; New York: Viking Penguin, 1990.
- The Inner I: British Literary Autobiography of the Twentieth Century. London: Faber & Faber; New York: Oxford UP, 1985.
- Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography. London: Faber & Faber; New York: Oxford UP, 1979.
- Since How It Is: A Study of Samuel Beckett's Later Fiction. London: Covent Garden P, 1972.
EDITIONS
- The Prussian Officer and Other Stories (introduction and notes). Harmondsworth. Middlesex: Penguin, 1995.
- St. Mawr and Other Stories (ed. with an introduction, explanatory notes and textual apparatus).Volume 17 of
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 1983.
- Selected Short Stories of D. H. Lawrence (ed. with an introduction and notes). Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1982.
Introduction abbr. in D. H. Lawrence: A Study of the Short Stories. Ed. Weldon Thornton. New York: Twayne, 1993.
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ARTICLES / ESSAYS
- "David Mitchell: Global Novelist of the Twenty-First Century." The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000. Edinburgh UP, Forthcoming
- "Mrs Dalloway and the War that Wouldn't End." Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway" and "To the Lighthouse." Ed. James Acheson. New Casebooks. London & New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2017. 125-38.
- "Irony: Truth's Disguise." Essay-Review of The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes. Los Angeles Review of Books. 20 Jun. 2016. Web. 25 Jan. 2017. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/irony-truths-disguise/
- "The David Mitchell Übernovel: Brian Finney Reviews Slade House. Los Angeles Review of Books. 5 Dec. 2015. Web. 25 Jan 2017. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-david-mitchell-ubernovel-brian-finney-reviews-slade-house/
- "Adding to the Übernovel: Why David Mitchell Does What He Does." Essay-Review of The Bone Clocks. Los Angeles Review of Books. 28 Sep. 2014. Web. 12 Jan. 2015. http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/adding-ubernovel-david-mitchell
- “International Contexts 2: The American Reception of British Fiction in the 1980s.” The 1980s: A Decade of British Fiction. Ed. Philip Tew, Leigh Wilson, and Emily Horton. The Continuum Decades. London & New York: Continuum, 2014.
- “Taking on Hammer Horror: Jeanette Winterson’s The Daylight Gate.” Los Angeles Review of Books 20 Nov. 2013. Web. 25 Jan. 2014.
http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/taking-on-hammer-horror-wintersons-the-daylight-gate
- “The French Lieutenant’s Woman as Historical Fiction.” John Fowles. Ed. James Acheson. New Casebooks. London & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 90-103.
- “A Stupid Outpouring of the Life: Richard Bradford’s Martin Amis.” Los Angeles Review of Books 21 July 2013 Web. 21 Jul. 2013.
http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/a-stupefied-outpouring-of-the-life-richard-bradfords-martin-amis
- “Literary Lout: Martin Amis Once Again Faces the Critics.” Los Angeles Review of Books 12 Sep. 2012. Web. 12 Sep. 2012.
http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/literary-lout-martin-amis-once-again-faces-the-critics
- "Perfectly Plausible Worlds." Los Angeles Review of. Books 31 Aug. 2011. Web. 7 Jan. 2013 lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?id=549.
- “Furious Simulation, or Simulated Fury: Salman Rushdie’s Fury Charmed Fictions: Through Midnight's Children to The Enchantress of Florence. Ed. Meenakshi Bharat. New Delhi: Pencraft International, 2008. 278-92.
- “Migrancy and the Picaresque in Timothy Mo’s Renegade or Halo2.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 49.1 (2007): 61-76.
- "Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow and the Postmodern Sublime.” Martin Amis: Postmodernism and Beyond. Ed. Gavin Keulks.
London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 101-16.
- “Briony’s Stand Against Oblivion: The Making of Fiction in Ian McEwan’s Atonement.” Journal of Modern Literature 27. 3 (2004): 68-82.
- “A Worm’s Eye View of History: Julian Barnes’ A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters."
Papers on Language and Literature 39. 1 (2003): 49-70.
- “Figuring the Real: Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans.” Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies 7. 1 (2002).
http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v7is1/ishigu.htm
- “Bonded by Language: Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body.” Women and Language 25. 2 (2002): 23-31.
- “Will Self’s Transgressive Fictions.” Essay-Review of Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys. Postmodern Culture 11.3 (2001).
www.muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v011/11.3finney.html
- “Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children,” “Samuel Beckett,” “Samuel Beckett’s Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable,”
“D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers.” Encyclopedia of the Novel. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999.
- “Demonizing Discourse in Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 29. 3 (1998): 67-93.
Rpt. in Salman Rushdie. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 2003. 185-208.
- “Tall Tales and Brief Lives: Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus.” Journal of Narrative Technique 28 (1998): 161-85.
- “Warring Worlds of Words: Salman Rushdie and The Satanic Verses.” Genre 17 (1997):7-23.
- "Narrative and Narrated Homicide in Martin Amis's Other People and London Fields." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 37.
1 (1995): 3-15. Rpt. of pp. 3, 4-7, 8-15 in The Fiction of Martin Amis: A Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism. Ed. Nicholas Tredell,
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. 49-53, 103-10.
- "Beckett's Postmodern Fictions." The Columbia History of the British Novel. Ed. John Richetti. New York: Columbia UP, 1994. 842-866.
- "Roth's Counterlife: Destabilizing The Facts." Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 16 (1993): 370-87.
- "Peter Ackroyd, Postmodernist Play and Chatterton." Twentieth Century Literature 38(1992): 240-61.
- "Suture in Literary Analysis." LIT: Literature. Interpretation. Theory 2 (1991): 131-144.
- "Temporal Defamiliarization in Toni Morrison's Beloved. Obsidian II. Black Literature in Review 5 (1990): 20-36. Rpt. in Critical Essays on Toni Morrison’s Beloved. Ed. Barbara H. Solomon. New York: G. K. Hall, 1998. 104-116.
- "Still to Worstward Ho: Beckett's Prose Fiction Since The Lost Ones." Beckett's Later Fiction and Drama: Texts for Company Ed.
James Acheson and Kateryna Arthur. London: Macmillan, New York: St. Martin's, 1987. 65-79.
- "Sexual Identity in Modern British Autobiography.” Prose Studies 8 (1985): 29-44. Rpt. in Modern Selves: Essays on Modern British and American Autobiography. Ed. Philip Dodd. London and Totoya, New Jersey: Frank Cass, 1986. 29-43.
- "Boswell's Hebridean Journal and the Ordeal of Dr Johnson." Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 5 (1981): 319-334.
- "Education and the Arts in London." Adult Education 54 (1981): 38-41.
- "Laily, Mortmere and All That." Twentieth Century Literature 22 (1976): 286-302.
- "Assumption to Lessness: Beckett's Shorter Fiction." Beckett the Shape Changer: A Symposium. Ed. Katherine Worth. London & Boston: Routledge, 1975. 61-83.
- "Two Versions of 'Sun': An Exchange." The D. H. Lawrence Review 8 (1975): 371-372.
- "Profile of Christopher Isherwood." The New Review 2 (1975): 17-24.
- "Modernism: A Symposium." (Introduction). The New Review 1 (1975): 12.
- "A Newly Discovered Text of D. H. Lawrence's 'The Lovely Lady'." Yale University Library Gazette 49 (1975): 245-252.
- "D. H. Lawrence's Progress to Maturity: From Holograph Manuscript to Final Publication of The Prussian Officer and Other Stories."
Studies in Bibliography 28 (1975): 321-332.
- "Profile of George Lazarus and his Lawrence Collection.” The D. H. Lawrence Review 6 (1973): 309-312.
- "Two Missing Pages from 'The Ladybird'." Review of English Studies 4 (1973): 191192.
- "Additional Bibliographical Information on Some D. H. Lawrence Short Stories." Notes and Queries 19 (1972): 337.
- "The Hitherto Unknown Publication of Some D. H. Lawrence Short Stories." Notes and Queries 19 (1972): 55-56.
- "An Examination of Dylan Thomas's 'A Visit to Grandpa'." The London Review 8 (1971-72): 31-37.
- “A Reading of Beckett's Imagination Dead Imagine." Twentieth Century Literature 17(1971): 65-71.
- "An Examination of a Poem by Dylan Thomas." The London Review 2 (1967): 50-61.
REVIEWS
- Rev. of A Working Mother, by Agnes Owens. New York Times Book Review 18 Feb. 1996: 17.
- “Rough Sailing.” Rev. of Signals of Distress, by Jim Crace. Los Angeles Times 28 Jan. 1996: 9.
- “The Life and Thought of Writer, Socialist and Prophet H.G. Wells.” Rev. of H.G.: The History of Mr. Wells, by Michael Foot.
Chicago Tribune 14 Jan.1996: 6-7.
- “Murder Blurs the Line Between Play and Life.” Rev. of Morality Play, by Barry Unsworth. San Francisco Chronicle 5-11 Nov. 1995: 3.
- “Golding in Greece.” Rev. of The Double Tongue, by William Golding. Chicago Tribune 8 Oct. 1995: 5.
- “Still Stirring To Be Still” (review essay). Rev. of Stirrings Still, by Samuel Beckett. Journal of Beckett Studies, New Series 1, 1-2 (1992):
129-35.
- Rev. of Isherwood's Fiction: The Self and Technique, by Lisa M. Schwerdt. Modern Fiction Studies 36. 4 (1990): 613.
- Rev. of Theatre Semiotics: Signs of Life, by Marvin Carlson. Modern Language Quarterly 51. 1 (1990):
- “Debaucheries of Judiciousness.” Rev. of History and Value, by Frank Kermode, and Contingencies of Value by Barbara Herrnstein Smith.
Modern Language Quarterly 49. 4 (1988): 378-85.
- Rev. of For Black Boys Who Have Considered Homicide When The Streets Were Too Much (play), by Keith Antar Mason.
L.A. Weekly 18-25 Nov. 1988:
- Rev. of The Great Fair - Sholom Aleichem on Tour (play), by Chris DeCarlo and Evelyne Rudie. L.A. Weekly 27 Oct.-3 Nov. 1988: 84.
- “The Grim Riddle of Britain’s Last Colony.” Rev. of Living With War, by Sally Belfrage, and Belfast Diary by John Conroy.
Los Angeles Times 3 Jan. 1988: 12.
- “Image Clusters.” Rev. of D. H. Lawrence. The Early Years by Michael Black. Times Higher Educational Supplement 27 June 1986: 18.
- “Table Talk.” Rev. of W. H. Auden: The Far Interior, by Alan Bold (ed.), and W. H. Auden, by Stan Smith. The Times Higher Educational Supplement 17 Jan. 1986: 19.
- “Uncertain Auden.” Rev. of W. H. Auden: A Biography, by Humphrey Carpenter. Irish Press Summer 1981.
- “A Hindu in Hollywood.” Rev. of My Guru and His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood. English 29 (1980): 266-71.
- “Becoming Beckett.” Rev. of Beckett/Beckett, by Vivian Mercier. Irish Press November 1977.
- “Writer’s Lawrence.” Rev. of Son and Lover: The Young Lawrence, by Philip Callow. Irish Press 23 August 1975.
- “Great Illusions.” Rev. of First Love, by Samuel Beckett, and A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett, by Hugh Kenner. Irish Press 4 August 1973.
- “Mrs. D. H.” Rev. of Frieda Lawrence: A Biography, by Robert Lucas. Irish Press 7 July 1973.
- “Beckett’s ‘I’.” Rev. of Not I, by Samuel Beckett, and The Plays of Samuel Beckett, by Eugene Webb. Irish Press 14 April 1973.
- “Space Fiction.” Rev. of Rabbit Redux, by John Updike. Irish Press 8 April 1972.
- “Ulysses’ Skeleton.” Rev. of Ulysses on the Liffey, by Richard Ellmann. Irish Press 4 March 1972.
- “Yeats Gallery.” Rev. of W. B. Yeats and his World, by Michael MacLiammoir and Eavan Boland. Irish Press 27 November 1971.
- “Robots and Saints.” Rev. of A Fire on the Moon, by Norman Mailer. Irish Press 2 January 1971: 10.
- “First Fiction.” Rev. of More Pricks Than Kicks, by Samuel Beckett. Irish Press January 1970.
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GRANTS AND AWARDS
- 2008-2009 Promotion to Full Professor Award, California State University, Long Beach
- 2008-2009 Assigned Time Award, California State University, Long Beach
- 2007-2008 Assigned Time Award, California State University, Long Beach
- 2006-2007 Assigned Time Award, California State University, Long Beach
- 2006-2007 Tenure/Initial Promotion Career Enhancement Award, California State University, Long Beach
- 2005-2006 Assigned Time Award, California State University, Long Beach
- 2004-2005 Assigned Time Award, California State University, Long Beach
- 1980 British Academy Research Fund Award.
- 1979 The James Tait Black Memorial Book Prize for the best biography of 1979.
- 1976 Arts Council of Great Britain Writer's Award.
- 1970-1971 Two annual University of London Research Fund traveling scholarships.
LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS
- 2008 “Martin Amis, Time’s Arrow, and the Holocaust.” The President’s Forum on International Human Rights: Modern Genocides and
Global Responsibility. California State University, Long Beach.
- 2007 “Images of Violence in the Work of Martin Amis.” Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery.
Colorado State University-Pueblo.
- 2006 “The Satanic Verses: Literature and Social Change Revisited.” OASIS, Long Beach/Lakewood.
- 2006 “The Linguistic Self: Beckett’s Last Exploration of the Subject.” Beckett at 100: New Perspectives. International Colloquium.
Florida State University, Tallahassee.
- 2005 “Angela Carter's Narrative on Narration: Nights at the Circus.” International Narrative Conference. University of Louisville, Kentucky.
- 2004 “Derrida and the Literary Academy.” Derrida Colloquium, California State University, Long Beach.
- 2000 “Publish or Perish: Adventures in the Print Trade.” Department of English, California State University, Long Beach.
- 1996 “Isherwood’s Berlin: From Dream to Nightmare (and Back).” Department of English, California State University, Long Beach.
- 1991 "Form Interrogating Itself. Postmodern Play in Peter Ackroyd's Fiction and Biography." Department of English,
California State University, Long Beach.
- 1990 "New Approaches to Biography: Challenges from Critical Theory. Roth's Counterlife: Destabilizing The Facts."
Department of English, University of Southern California
- 1988 “Race, Gender and Class in Life Writing: Critique of the Canon," MLA, New Orleans.
- 1987 “Autobiographies as Literary Texts," Department of English, University of California, Riverside, California.
- 1986 "Literature and the Reading Public," College University and Professional Publishers' Council, St. Hilda's College, Oxford, England.
- 1979 "Lives in Literature," Camden Public Libraries, Swiss Cottage, London, England.
- 1974 "Shakespeare and the European Renaissance," The International School, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, England.
- 1971 "Augustan Satire," and "The Rise of the English Novel," Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England.
TEACHING COMPETENCE
Primary fields: Post-1900 British fiction; post-1900 British literature; post-1900 drama (in English); critical and literary theory;
cultural studies.
Secondary fields: Introduction to literature, fiction, poetry and drama; English literature from Beowulf to the present; American literature
since 1865; world drama from the Greeks to the present day; world literature; the humanities since the Renaissance.
OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
 Occasional consultant reader, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Papers on Language and Literature, and Twentieth Century Literature, 2005-8.- Consultant Reader, LIT : Literature, Interpretation, Theory, 1990-present.
- Consultant Reader, Post Identity 1997-present.
- Consultant, Modern Language Quarterly, 1988-1994.
- Organizer, platform lectures, National Theatre, London, England, 1978-1987.
- Member, management committee, Consortium for Drama and Media in Higher Education,
London, England, 1979-1987.
- Organizer, public lectures, the Poetry Society, London, England, 1981-1987
- Organizer, public lectures, the New Fiction Society, London, England. 1980-1981.
- Organizer, public lectures, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England, 1986-87.
- Joint organizer, drama workshops, Royal Shakespeare Company (at the Pit and the Warehouse), London, England, 1978- 1983.
- Secretary and member, editorial board, The London Review, 1967-1976.
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