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PEACH, LINDEN
Originally from Wales, Linden Peach is Professor and Head of the Department of English and History at Edge Hill University, near Liverpool. He has been published extensively in the field of 20th century and contemporary literature. He is well known for research on the writings of Virginia Woolf, the representation of crime in English literature, and contemporary Welsh and Irish women’s literature. Linden has been honoured twice by the Toni Morrison Society, University of Georgia for his work on the Nobel Prize winning African American novelist. He was also awarded an Honorary Research Fellowship by the University of Wales based on his contribution to Welsh literature.Linden has been Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at Northumbria University, Head of English and Inter-arts at Bretton Hall College, University of Leeds and Reader in Contemporary Literature at Loughborough University, where he was promoted to personal chair and awarded a professorial title. He has also worked at Goldsmiths College and Skelmersdale College. Whilst at Goldsmiths College, Professor Peach played his own part in pioneering study for adults when he introduced part-time degree programmes for adult learners and developed the first access courses to higher education at London University.
Selected Publications:
British Influence on the Birth of American Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 1982)
The Prose Writings of Dylan Thomas (Barnes & Noble Imports, 1988)
Ancestral Lines: Culture and Identity in the Work of Six Contemporary Poets (Seren, 1995)
Toni Morrison: Historical Perspectives and Literary Contexts (Macmillan Modern Novelists Series) (Palgrave Macmillan, 1995)
Angela Carter (Palgrave Modern Novelists) (Palgrave Macmillan, 1997)
Virginia Woolf (Critical Issues) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000)
The Contemporary Irish Novel: Critical Readings (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
Masquerade, Crime and Fiction: Criminal Deceptions (Crime Files) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
Contemporary Irish and Welsh Women’s Fiction: Gender, Desire and Power (Writing Wales in English Series) (University of Wales Press, 2007)
Contributed to:
Christopher Caudwell: Marxism and Culture (co-editor) (Goldsmiths, 1989)
English as a Creative Art: Literary Concepts Linked to Creative Writing (co-writer) (David Fulton Publishers, 1995)
Toni Morrison: Contemporary Critical Essays (editor) (Palgrave Macmillan, 1998)