Dr Douglas Field

Biography

I received my PhD from the University of York in English Literature, where I focussed on the writer James Baldwin. I joined the University of Manchester in 2012 having previously taught at The University of York and Staffordshire University, as well as stints teaching young offenders, refugees, and asylum seekers. I sit on the Editorial Committee of Manchester University Press and I am a co-founding editor of James Baldwin Review, an annual peer-reviewed journal.  I'm a contributing editor at The A-Line: A Journal of Progressive thought, a former managing editor of Modernism/ Modernity, and a former book review editor at Callaloo. I'm on the advisory council for the European Beat Studies Network (EBSN) and I'm a member of the AHRC’s Peer Review College. I'm the co-founding director of The Manchester Centre for Correspondence Studies, a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.