- Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford
Kate McLoughlin is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Harris Manchester College. She has published widely on war literature, including Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare (2018), Authoring War: The Literary Representation of War from the Iliad to Iraq (2011) and The Cambridge Companion to War Writing (2009). She is currently writing a literary history of silence funded by a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust.
Experience
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2016–presentProfessor of English Literature, University of Oxford
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2014–2016Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford
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2013–2014Reader in English Literature, Birkbeck, University of London
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2012–2013Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Birkbeck, University of London
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2010–2012Lecturer in English Literature, Birkbeck, University of London
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2010–2010Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Glasgow
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2006–2010Lecturer in English Literature, University of Glasgow
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1999–2001Assistant Counsel, Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
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1994–1999Policy Lawyer, Government Legal Service
Education
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2004University of Oxford, PhD / English Literature
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2002University of Oxford, MSt / Research Methods in English (Modern Period)
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1994Inns of Court School of Law, Vocational Course for the Bar
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1993University of Cambridge, MPhil / Renaissance Literature
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1992City University, London, Diploma in Law
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1991University of Oxford, MA / English Language and Literature
Publications
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2019British Literature in Transition: 1960-1980 - Flower Power, editor
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2018Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790-2015, author
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2018The First World War: Literature, Culture, Modernity, co-editor
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2017Writing War, Writing Lives, co-editor
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2013The Modernist Party, editor
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2011Plums, author
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2011Authoring War: The Literary Representation of War from the Iliad to Iraq, author
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2009The Cambridge Companion to War Writing, editor
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2007Martha Gellhorn: The War Writer in the Field and in the Text, author
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2007Tove Jansson Rediscovered, co-editor
Grants and Contracts
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2019Major Research Fellowship
- Role:
- PI
- Funding Source:
- Leverhulme Trust
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2017Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Funding
- Role:
- CI
- Funding Source:
- Mellon Foundation
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2014Landmark Conference Funding
- Role:
- CI
- Funding Source:
- British Academy
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2013Mid-Career Fellowship
- Role:
- PI
- Funding Source:
- British Academy
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2002Doctoral Funding
- Role:
- Funding Source:
- Arts and Humanities Research Council
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1992Master's Funding
- Role:
- Funding Source:
- Arts and Humanities Research Board
Professional Memberships
- WAR-Net
Contact Kate for
- General
- Media request
- Speaking request
- Consulting / Advising
- Research collaboration
- Research supervision
- Location: Oxford, UK
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