Lewis Johnson
Thesis: The Working-Class Body in Experimental British Poetry (1979-1990)
Research Interests: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Poetry, Marxism, Neoliberalism, Biopolitics, Abjection
Funding: John Lennon Memorial Scholarship
Conferences:
‘Capitalism and Katabasis’, Hope Mirrlees’ Paris: A Poem at 100, Sorbonne Université, June 2020
‘Repositioning the Flâneur’, Place and Community Colloquium, University of Sheffield, May 2019
Teaching:
* British Poetic Writing Since 1930
* Modernist Literature: 1900-1945
* Ways of Reading
* Close Reading
* Scholars Scheme - Widening Participation
Other:
Project Lead at the Centre for New and International Writing, managing British Poetry and Class https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/new-and-international-writing/poetry-class/
Email: Lewis.Johnson@liverpool.ac.uk Twitter: @LewisJohnson634
Supervisors: Professor Deryn Rees-Jones and Dr James Bainbridge