Glyn White

Glyn White is a senior lecturer in 20th-century literature and culture at the University of Salford.

He is co-author (with the late Professor John Mundy) of Laughing Matters: Understanding Film, Television and Radio comedy (Manchester University Press 2012) and contributed a chapter ‘‘You Don’t Have to be Crazy to Work, But it Helps’: Work in Film Comedies of the 1930s’ to Work in Cinema, edited by Professor Ewa Mazierska (Macmillan, 2013).

He has written extensively about page design and meaning in late 20th-century fiction, including the monograph Reading the Graphic Surface: The Presence of the Book in Prose Fiction (Manchester University Press, 2005), and various chapters and articles on Christine Brooke-Rose, Mark Z. Danielewski, Alasdair Gray and B.S. Johnson.

He co-edited (with Professor Philip Tew) and contributed to The 1940s: A Decade on Modern British Fiction (2022), also contributing a chapter on Detective Fiction and Thrillers to the Bloomsbury Decades volume on the 1930s (2020).

Glyn's areas of research include: film and television comedy; 20th-century English literature; 21st-century English literature; and crime fiction (literature, film, television).