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, The Morphology of Form, 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]