Professor Patrick Parrinder
Emeritus Professor of English Literature
Areas of interest
19th-20th century literature, H.G. Wells, science fiction, utopian studies.
Background
- Head of Department of English Language and Literature, 1986-94
- Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences, 1991-4
Academic qualifications
MA, PhD (Cambridge)
Professional bodies/affiliations
- President of the H.G. Wells Society
- Fellow of the English Association
- Society of Authors
Selected publications
- Utopian Literature and Science (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
- ‘Food and Power: The Utopian City and Its Countryside’, Science Fiction Studies 49: 2 (2022), 217-29.
- ‘”The Growth of a Common Humanity”: H.G. Wells and Universal History’, in L. López-Ropero (ed.), H.G. Wells: Contemporary Perspectives (Ediciones Universidad Salamanca, 2024), 31-47.
- ‘Realism and the Nation’ in P. Stasi (ed.), Realism and the Novel: A Global History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025), 105-19.
- (Co-editor with Emelyne Godfrey) The Open Heart: Stories and Fiction by Catherine Wells (London: Flame Tree, 2025).
- (General Editor) The Oxford History of the Novel in English (Oxford University Press, 12 vols., 2011-2024).