Dr Paul March-Russell

Position:Senior Lecturer in English
School: Cardiff School of Education and Social Policy
E- mail: pamarch-russell@cardiffmet.ac.uk 
Telephone:
​029 2020 5634
Room No:B118

 

Research

Research Groups:
• Arts and Humanities Research Group (AHRG)

Memberships:
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
• Member, The Science Fiction Foundation (SFF)

• Member, The Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA)
• Member, The May Sinclair Society (MSS)

Research Interests:
• Late Victorian, Modernist and Neo-Romantic literature
• The short story
• Science fiction
• Contemporary British women's fiction
• Ecocriticism, animal theory, the GeoHumanities

Publications

Books and Editions:

Modernism and Science Fiction (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)

The Postcolonial Short Story: Contemporary Essays (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) (co-ed. with Maggie Awadalla)

Legacies of Romanticism: Literature, Culture, Aesthetics (New York: Routledge, 2012) (co-ed. with Carmen Casaliggi)

George Egerton, The Wheel of God (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2011)

The Short Story: An Introduction (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009)

Ruskin in Perspective: Contemporary Essays (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007) (co-ed. with Carmen Casaliggi)

May Sinclair, Uncanny Stories (Ware: Wordsworth Editions, 2006)

Book Chapters:

'Machines Like Us: Modernism and the Question of the Robot', in Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal and Sarah Dillon, eds. A.I. Narratives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)

'Science Fiction, Modernism and the Avant-Garde', in Gerry Canavan and Eric Carl Link, eds. The Cambridge History of Science Fiction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)

'Impressionism and the Short Story', in Paul Delaney and Adrian Hunter, eds. The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018)

'In the Company of Wolves: Feminist Fairy Tales after Carter', in Jorge Sacido and Laura Lojo, eds. Gender and Short Fiction: Women's Tales in Contemporary Britain (London: Routledge, 2018)

'Story-Cycles', in Stephen J. Burn, ed. American Literature in Transition: 1990-2000 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018)

'Alien Pleasures: Modernism/Hybridity/Science Fiction', in Scott N. Ortolano, ed. Popular Modernism and Its Legacies (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)

'Frontiers: Science Fiction and the British Marketplace', in Dominic Head, ed. The Cambridge History of the English Short Story (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016)

'Rule of Law: Reiterating Genre in Jack Glass', in Christos Callow and Anna McFarlane, eds. Adam Roberts: Critical Essays (Canterbury: Gylphi, 2016)

'Atrocious Objects: The Colonial Imaginary in Verne, Roussel, Jarry and Ballard', in Rick McGrath, ed. Deep Ends 3 (Toronto: Terminal Press, 2016)

'Writing and Publishing the Short Story', in Anne-Marie Einhaus, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the English Short Story (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016)

Signatures of the Invisible: Reading between The City & the City and Christopher Priest's The Glamour', in Caroline Edwards and Tony Venezia, eds. China Miéville: Critical Essays (Canterbury: Gylphi, 2015)

'"Into the interstices of time": Speed and Perception in the Scientific Romance', in Adrienne E. Gavin and Andrew F. Humphries, eds. Transport in British Fiction: 1840-1940 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)

'"I am not that": Liminality in the Short Fiction of Joanna Russ', in Jochen Achilles and Ina Bergmann, eds. Liminality and the Short Story: Boundary Crossings in American, Canadian, and British Writing (London: Routledge, 2015)

'The Jilted Generation?: The New Puritans a Decade On', in José Francisco Fernández, ed. The New Puritan Generation: Essays on British Fiction at the Turn of the 21st Century (Canterbury: Gylphi, 2013)

'And did those feet?: Mapmaking London and the Postcolonial Limits of Psychogeography', in Maggie Awadalla and Paul March-Russell, eds. The Postcolonial Short Story: Contemporary Essays (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)

'The Writing Machine: J.G. Ballard in Modern and Postmodern Short Story Theory', in Jorge Sacido, ed. Modernism, Postmodernism and the Short Story in English (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012)

'The Neo-Romantic Wyndham Lewis', in Carmen Casaliggi and Paul March-Russell, eds. Legacies of Romanticism: Literature, Aesthetics, Culture (New York: Routledge, 2012)

'Baby Tuckoo among the Grown-Ups: Modernism and Childhood in the Interwar Period', in Adrienne E. Gavin, ed. The Child in British Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)

Art and Amity: The "Opposed Aesthetic" in Mina Loy and Joanna Russ', in Farah Mendlesohn, ed. On Joanna Russ (Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2009)

'Pagan Papers: History, Mysticism and Edwardian Childhood', in Adrienne E. Gavin and Andrew F. Humphries, eds. Childhood in Edwardian Fiction (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)

'Ruskin, Herbert Read and the Neo-Romantic Imagination', in Carmen Casaliggi and Paul March-Russell, eds. Ruskin in Perspective: Contemporary Essays (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007)

Journal Articles (refereed):

'Re-Gendering the Eerie: Border Crossings in Daisy Johnson's Fen', Journal of the Short Story in English, 75 (2020), pp. 27-43

'Bullet Sized', Short Film Studies 10.2 (2019), pp. 211-14

'The Abcanny Politics of Landscape in Lucy Wood's Diving Belles', Short Fiction in Theory and Practice 7.1 (2017), pp. 53-65

'In the American Grain? Nature, Postmodernism and William H. Gass', ISLE 24.3 (2017), pp. 514-28

'Exploding the Open Book: The Atrocity Exhibition, Vermilion Sands and the Ethics of the Short Story Cycle', Short Fiction in Theory and Practice 1:1 (2011), pp. 95-108

'Rewards and Fairies and the Neo-Romantic Debt', The Kipling Journal 326 (2008), pp. 6-13.

'"Close, but without touching": Hearing, Seeing and Believing in Conrad's "The Tale"', Conradiana 38:3 (2006), pp. 267-82.

'"Imagine, if you can": Love, Time and the Impossibility of Utopia in E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops"', Critical Survey 17:1 (2005), pp. 56-71.

'The Politics of Time and Form in Douglas Oliver's A Salvo for Africa', English 207 (2004), pp. 203-18.

'The Anarchy of Love: Conrad's "The Informer"', The Conradian 28:2 (2003), pp. 45-60.

E-Publications:

'Urban fantasy novels: why they matter and which ones to read first', The Conversation (2020), https://theconversation.com/urban-fantasy-novels-why-they-matter-and-which-ones-to-read-first-137942

'A different kind of mini-break: imagined cities to explore from your sofa', The Conversation (2020), https://theconversation.com/a-different-kind-of-mini-break-imagined-cities-to-explore-from-your-sofa-135769

'Joanna Russ', Oxford Bibliographies (2019), https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199827251/obo-9780199827251-0192.xml

'Arms and the Woman: The Role of the Public Intellectual in Zoe Lambert's The War Tour', C21 Literature 6.2 (2018)

'Whose Culture? Whose Anarchy? The Short Story and the Bonfire of the Humanities', Thresholds: International Short Story Forum (2011), http://blogs.chi.ac.uk/shortstoryforum/whose-culture-whose-anarchy/

'Douglas Oliver' and 'J.H. Prynne' (2005), in Robert Clark, ed. The Literary Encyclopaedia, www.LitEncyc.com

Book/Film Reviews (selected):

Todd Martin, ed. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Katherine Mansfield, Short Fiction in Theory and Practice 12.1 (2022), pp. 105-109.

Dan Byrne-Smith, ed. Science Fiction: Documents of Contemporary Art, Extrapolation 62.3 (2021), pp. 331-35

Glyn Morgan and C. Palmer-Patel, eds. Sideways in Time, Fantastika 5.1 (2021), https://fantastikajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/122-Review-by-Paul-March-Russell.pdf

Barbara Korte and Laura Lojo-Rodriguez, eds. Borders and Border Crossings in the Contemporary British Short Story, Short Fiction in Theory and Practice 10.1 (2020), pp. 121-24

Nicola Barker, H(A)PPY, Fantastika 2.1 (2018), pp. 122-24

Rian Johnson, dir. Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Vector 287 (2018), pp. 34-35

Jerome Winter, Science Fiction, New Space Opera, and Neoliberal Globalism, Fantastika 1.1 (2017), pp. 146-51.

Ben Wheatley, dir. High-Rise, Vector 285 (2017), pp. 14-15

Profile

Dr Paul March-Russell joined Cardiff Metropolitan University in August 2021, having previously taught at the University of Kent, Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Westminster. Paul has been a judge for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. He has co-organised conferences and events on Charles Olson, Arthur C. Clarke, Victorian women's theatre and Russell Hoban. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Romantic, Victorian and 20th/21st century literature. His postdoctoral supervision has included theses on Mervyn Peake, mesmerism, biopolitics and dystopia, and women and textiles.


External Links

• Editor, Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction

• Commissioning editor, SF Storyworlds, Gylphi Press

• Co-founder and editorial advisor, Gold SF, Goldsmiths Press

• Editorial advisor, Journal of the Short Story in English and Short Fiction in Theory and Practice