Dr Arthur Rose
Research Fellow
Overview
I am interested in how literary cultural studies helps us to understand environmental and health crises in the world we live in. This has led me in different directions, from coal mining in the Naturalist novel to the role played by closure in imagining how epidemics end, but all with the aim of figuring out what literature teaches us about ourselves, our health and our environments. From 2015 on, I have focused on how concerns about breath communicate political engagements with health and the environment: how, for instance, breathing works so well as a rhetorical figure in political movements, or how worries about asbestos, already implicated in the conspiracies of the companies that mined and manufactured it, becomes container for other forms of “fake news.” At the same time, I have maintained an interest, begun during my PhD at the University of Leeds, in negative affects, emotions and dispositions. Some of this work formed the basis of my first monograph, Literary Cynics: Borges, Beckett, Coetzee, which addressed cynicism as a disposition accommodated by established authors as they enter the late style phase of their careers. More recently, I have drawn together this work with my interest in environmental/health crises by considering the role played by shame in health contexts, as a matter for public health and as an issue in medical culture. As part of ongoing research in this area, I am employed on the Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award Shame and Medicine, led by Luna Dolezal (Exeter) and Matthew Gibson (Birmingham).
My initial training was in 20th Century Postcolonial and World Literature, with a focus on Postcolonial Late Modernism, and I maintain an interest in that area, but, as the above paragraph suggests, I have expanded this to look at the ways that literature tracks environmental harms and their effects on health. A special area of study has been asbestos, which became the focus of my second monograph Asbestos--The Last Modernist Object (shortlisted for the 2023 MSA Book Prize), and I continue to write and work on this topic and other environmental hazards, as a literary scholar and in interdisciplinary collaborations with activists, scholars and professionals in law, healthcare and asbestos management.
I would be delighted to talk to anyone interested in my areas of study -- the health humanities, literature and the environment, postwar and world literature, comparative literature, and negative affects and dispositions (especially shame and cynicism).
A list of my publications can be found here.
Publications
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| 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2011 |
2024
- Chattopadhyay A, Rose A. (2024) Understanding Badiou, Understanding Modernism, Bloomsbury Academic.
2023
- Rose A. (2023) Borges, Buddhism and world literature: A morphology of Renunciation talesBy Dominique Jullien, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2019. pp. 149. £44.99 (hardback). ISBN: 978‐3‐030‐04717‐7, Orbis Litterarum, DOI:10.1111/oli.12429.
- Dolezal L, Rose A. (2023) A Sartrean analysis of pandemic shaming, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, volume 22, no. 5, pages 1235-1253, DOI:10.1007/s11097-023-09890-6. [PDF]
2022
- Dolezal L, Rose A. (2022) Shame, Guilt, and Medical Error in Ann Patchett's State of Wonder, Literature and Medicine, volume 40, no. 2, pages 326-345, DOI:10.1353/lm.2022.0030. [PDF]
- Dolezal L, Rose A, Cooper F. (2022) COVID-19 and Shame Political Emotions and Public Health in the UK.
- Rose A. (2022) Closure and the Critical Epidemic Ending, Centaurus, volume 64, pages 261-272, DOI:10.1484/J.CNT.5.128875.
- Rose A. (2022) Recovering Franz Kafka's Asbestos Factory, New Literary History, volume 53, no. 1, pages 59-84, DOI:10.1353/nlh.2022.0002.
- Rose A. (2022) Limestone Poetics in Adrian Stokes, W. H. Auden and Kamau Brathwaite, Figurationen: gender - literatur - kultur, volume 23, no. 1, pages 50-64, DOI:10.7788/figu.2022.23.1.50.
- Rose A. (2022) Millenarian Modernism in H. I. E. Dhlomo’sThe Girl who Killed to Save, English Studies in Africa, volume 65, no. 1, pages 5-16, DOI:10.1080/00138398.2022.2055853. [PDF]
- Rose A. (2022) Beckett, Barthes and Breath, Paragraph, volume 45, pages 218-232.
2021
- Rose A. (2021) A Creamy Work: Schiller and Beckett, Themes in Theatre, 175-190, DOI:10.1163/9789004468382_014.
- Walker O, Rose A. (2021) The Forgotten Obvious: Breathing in Psychoanalysis, Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, 369-390, DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-74443-4_18.
- Rose A. (2021) Asbestos's Animacy; or, Salamander Cotton, New Formations, volume 104, no. 104, pages 105-127, DOI:10.3898/newf:103-104.05.2021. [PDF]
- Dolezal L, Rose A, Cooper F. (2021) COVID-19, online shaming, and health-care professionals, The Lancet, volume 398, no. 10299, pages 482-483, DOI:10.1016/s0140-6736(21)01706-2. [PDF]
- Rose A. (2021) Postapartheid Ephemerality in Marlene van Niekerk’s Triomf, Research in African Literatures, volume 51, no. 4, pages 211-229, DOI:10.2979/reseafrilite.51.4.12.
- Rose A. (2021) Imagining Breath, Imagining 9/11 in Indra Sinha'S Animal's People, Studies in the Novel, volume 53, no. 1, pages 69-85, DOI:10.1353/sdn.2021.0005.
- Steven MA. (2021) Understanding Marx, Understanding Modernism, Bloomsbury.
2020
- Rose A. (2020) Keri hulme’s breath poetics, Modernist Cultures, volume 15, no. 3, pages 399-417, DOI:10.3366/mod.2020.0303.
- Rose A. (2020) Coal politics: receiving Émile Zola’sGerminal, Modern & Contemporary France, volume 29, no. 2, pages 165-178, DOI:10.1080/09639489.2020.1793747. [PDF]
- Rose A. (2020) Asbestos populism in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, Safundi, volume 21, no. 3, pages 339-354, DOI:10.1080/17533171.2020.1773658.
- Rose A. (2020) Shame-to-cynicism conversion inThe CitadelandThe House of God, Medical Humanities, volume 47, no. 2, pages 219-227, DOI:10.1136/medhum-2020-011882. [PDF]
- Rose A. (2020) Tim Winton’s Pneumatic Materialism, Interventions, volume 22, no. 5, pages 641-656, DOI:10.1080/1369801X.2020.1715819.
2019
- Rose A. (2019) Exacerbations, BioSocieties, volume 14, no. 3, pages 482-487, DOI:10.1057/s41292-019-00170-8. [PDF]
- Oxley R, Harrison SL, Rose A, Macnaughton J. (2019) The meaning of the name of 'pulmonary rehabilitation' and its influence on engagement with individuals with chronic lung disease, CHRONIC RESPIRATORY DISEASE, volume 16, article no. ARTN 1479973119847659, DOI:10.1177/1479973119847659. [PDF]
- Malpass A, Dodd J, Feder G, MacNaughton J, Rose A, Walker O, Williams T, Carel H. (2019) Disrupted breath, songlines of breathlessness: An interdisciplinary response, Medical Humanities, volume 45, no. 3, pages 294-303, DOI:10.1136/medhum-2018-011631.
2018
- Rose A. (2018) Introduction: Reading Breath in Literature, Reading Breath in Literature, Springer International Publishing, 1-16, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-99948-7_1. [PDF]
- Rose A. (2018) Combat Breathing in Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh, Reading Breath in Literature, Springer International Publishing, 113-134, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-99948-7_6. [PDF]
- Rose A. (2018) Matthew Feldman's Falsifying Beckett: Essays on Archives, Philosophy, and Methodology in Beckett Studies and Andre Furlani's Beckett after Wittgenstein, Journal of Beckett Studies, volume 27, no. 1, pages 128-136, DOI:10.3366/jobs.2018.0225. [PDF]
- Rose A. (2018) From the Extended Mind to the Anthropocene: Rethinking Scale in Literary History, Theories of History, Bloomsbury Academic, DOI:10.5040/9781474271332.ch-002. [PDF]
- Rose A. (2018) Mining Memories with Donald Trump in the Anthropocene, MFS Modern Fiction Studies, volume 64, no. 4, pages 701-722, DOI:10.1353/mfs.2018.0050. [PDF]
- Rose A, Heine S, Tsentourou N, Saunders C, Garratt P. (2018) Reading Breath in Literature, Springer.
- Kelly MJ, Rose A. (2018) Theories of History History Read across the Humanities, Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Rose A. (2018) In the wake of asbestos: Ship-building and Ship-breaking in Ross Raisin's Waterline and Tahmima Anam's The Bones of Grace, Ariel, volume 49, no. 4, pages 139-161, DOI:10.1353/ari.2018.0032.
- Macnaughton J, Oxley R, Rose A, Russell A, Dodd JW, Carel H. (2018) Chronic breathlessness: re-thinking the symptom, Eur Respir J, volume 51, no. 1, DOI:10.1183/13993003.02331-2017. [PDF]
2017
- Rose A. (2017) Echoes of terence: 'Rien d'humain' in the friends and neighbours of Flaubert, Beckett and NDiaye, Flaubert, Beckett, NDiaye: The Aesthetics, Emotions and Politics of Failure, 20-35, DOI:10.1163/9789004337343_003.
- Rose A. (2017) Echoes of Terence: ‘Rien d’humain’ in the Friends and Neighbours of Flaubert, Beckett and NDiaye, Flaubert, Beckett, NDiaye, BRILL, 20-35, DOI:10.1163/9789004337343_003. [PDF]
- Rose A. (2017) Literary Cynics Borges, Beckett, Coetzee, Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Macnaughton J, Oxley R, Rose A. (2017) CLINICAL CULTURES AND THE SENSATION OF BREATHLESSNESS, THORAX, volume 72, pages A5-A6, DOI:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2017-210983.9. [PDF]
- Rose A. (2017) Beckett in New Orleans, Samuel Beckett Today - Aujourd'hui, volume 29, no. 2, pages 337-349, DOI:10.1163/18757405-02902010.
- Rose A, Duschinsky R, Macnaughton J. (2017) The art of medicine Cynicism as a strategic virtue, LANCET, volume 389, no. 10070, pages 692-693, DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30349-5. [PDF]
2016
- Rose A. (2016) Breath in the technoscientific imaginary, Medical Humanities, volume 42, no. 4, pages e31-e35, DOI:10.1136/medhum-2016-010908.
2015
- Rose A. (2015) Enantiosemiotic Care in J. M. Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K, Security and Hospitality in Literature and Culture: Modern and Contemporary Perspectives, 81-93, DOI:10.4324/9781315690018-14.
- Rose A. (2015) Headaches among the Overtones: Music in Beckett/Beckett in Music, French Studies, volume 69, no. 3, pages 414-414, DOI:10.1093/fs/knv118. [PDF]
2014
- Rose A. (2014) The road toward something that one does not know: In response to Christopher Norris, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, volume 22, no. 3, pages 380-384, DOI:10.1080/09672559.2014.913887.
- Rose A. (2014) "So little in doubt"? Revisiting The Unnamable, Samuel Beckett Today - Aujourd'hui, volume 26, no. 1, pages 211-223, DOI:10.1163/9789401211635_016.
2011
- Rose A, Wang C. (2011) Questions of hospitality in Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year, Twentieth Century Literature, volume 57, no. 1, pages 54-69, DOI:10.1215/0041462x-2011-2005.