Dr James Reath
Research Fellow
Overview
I am a Wellcome Early-Career Research Fellow (2023-2027) in English Literature based at the Wellcome Centre for Cultures & Environments of Health (WCCEH) at the University of Exeter.
I received my AHRC-funded PhD from University College London in October 2022. Before this I received my BA in English & History from Queen Mary University of London with one-year studying at the University of Miami and my MA in English Literature from McGill University.
I have held visiting fellowships at Yale University (funded by the Yale-UCL Collaborative Exchange Program) and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin (funded by AHRC IPS).
My first book, Anexact Form: Fuzzy, Grey, Viscous, is under review at Edinburgh University Press.
My current Wellcome Trust funded research project, Molecular Dreamworlds, conducts a multidisciplinary investigation into the social and cultural lifeworlds of different synthetic materials in the mid-to-late twentieth century--including agrochemical pesticides, fast-fashion textiles, labor-saving kitchen appliances, and multinational pharmaceuticals.
My recent essays have appeared in Textual Practice, Modernist Cultures, Verso Blog, and elsewhere.
Publications
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2024
- Reath J. (2024) The groovy: an everyday aesthetic of the sixties, TEXTUAL PRACTICE, DOI:10.1080/0950236X.2024.2321912. [PDF]
2023
- Reath J. (2023) Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies & the Coastal Commons, MODERNIST CULTURES, volume 18, no. 3, pages 266-272. [PDF]