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“The Short Story as `Tableau Vivant´: Wyndham Lewis´s The Wild Body”. Congreso: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Short Fiction, Theory, and Criticism. Universidad de Salamanca, 24-27, 2004.
“Narrativity and Existence: Short Story Versus Novel in Carol Shields´s The Stone Diaries”. 30 August, British Council, Calcuta, India
In collaboration with Melania Terrazas: “Lost Causes: Wyndham Lewis, Vorticism, andthe Short Story”. 8th International Conference on the Short Story in English: Crossing Boundaries, 27-31, October 2004.

‘Abstraction, Archaism and the Future: T. E. Hulme, Epstein and Lewis’ in The Question of T. E. Hulme, eds Edward J. Comentale and Andrzej Gasiorek (Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005), pp. 70-88.
‘Vorticism’, in A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture, eds David Bradshaw and Kevin J. H. Dettmar (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), 176-82.
Seventeen entries for 1001 Novels You Must Read Before You Die, ed. Peter Boxall (University of Sussex), Quintet, 2006.
Includes Lewis, Sylvia Townsend Warner, John Barth, George Orwell, Henri Barbusse, Nadine Gordimer, Anthony Burgess, dos Passos, etc. Forthcoming in 2006.
Five entries in Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics, ed. M. Keith Booker.
On Edgell Rickword, Ralph Bates, Ralph Fox, Wyndham Lewis, and Lewis’s Revenge for Love (1937), forthcoming.
* Work in progress: a book on Wyndham Lewis entitled Wyndham Lewis and the Idea of the Twentieth Century.
Article for Literature Compass (online journal) on contemporary British poetry.

‘What the Vorticists Did Next’, research seminar, Department of Art History, University of Plymouth at Exeter, 31 January 2006.
‘The Debate on Wyndham Lewis: Critical Politics of Space and Place’, Twentieth Century Seminar, English Faculty, University of Cambridge, 14 February 2006.
‘Wyndham Lewis: from Proudhon to Hitler (and back)’ for ‘Right, Left, Right: Revolving Commitment, France and Britain’ conference, University of Birmingham, Department of French, 20-21 April 2006.
Invited plenary, jointly with David Walker, Professor of French, University of Sheffield.

‘Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour: The Invention of Disillusion’, in Waugh without End: New Trends in Evelyn Waugh Studies, ed. Carlos Villar and Robert Murray Davis (Bern: Peter Lang, 2005), pp. 225-46.
‘William Roberts Gaudier-Brzeska and the Vorticist Community’, Wyndham Lewis Annual XI (2005), 84-91. Review essay.
Review of Edward Upward’s library for Auden Newsletter. Forthcoming in 2005.

‘The Interventionist Traveller: George Orwell and Priscilla Scott-Ellis in the Spanish Civil War’, for ‘British and American Travellers in Spain’, University of Granada, Spain, 6-8 October 2005. Published in CD format pre-conference in August 2005, and subsequently in book form.
‘Good Taste/Bad Taste: British Art and the Dissolution of “Taste”’ for ‘A Matter of Taste’, Annual conference of the English Department, University of Bucharest, 2-4 June.
‘Dualism, Relation, Reciprocity: Wyndham Lewis and the Progress of Modernism’.
Invited plenary lecture, 15th British and American Studies Conference, University of Timisoara, Romania, May 19?21, 2005.
(Occasion as above) ‘Making Enemies: Wyndham Lewis and Geoffrey Grigson: The cultural consequences of polemical intervention’.

‘How Gender Serves Trotskyism: The Spanish Civil War in Ken Loach’s Land and Freedom’, in Gender and Warfare in the Twentieth Century: Textual Representations, ed. Angela K. Smith (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004), 76-95.
‘“Juliet can be a map”: Mapping as Metaphor’, Studies in Travel Writing 8, 1 (March 2004), 89-93. Review essay on Burdett and Duncan (eds), Cultural Encounters: European Travel Writing in the 1930s, and
Schweizer, Radicals on the Road: The Politics of English Travel Writing in the 1930s.

‘Beyond Joyce: Wyndham Lewis’s Radical Critique of Modernism’. Workshop/panel on ‘Radical Modernism’, ESSE 7, Zaragoza, 8-12 September 2004. (European Society for the Study of English). With members of the joint Spanish-British research project of which I am a member, organised by Professor Carmelo Cunchillos of the University of La Rioja, Spain.
‘Tarantino and Almodóvar: American and European Narratives’. Frostburg State University, Maryland, USA, 28 October 2004. Invited lecture to inaugurate Film Studies degree.
‘Towards a Discourse of Freedom: Cultural Theory as Performance in Wyndham Lewis’, Midwest Modern Language Association, St Louis, Missouri, USA, 4-7 November 2004. Section 192: English III: English Literature After 1900.

‘Raworth’s Community of Readers: “Firewall”’, in Removed for Further Study: The Poetry of Tom Raworth, ed. Nate Dorward, The Gig 13-14 (May 2003), 242-52.
‘Egotism and Relation: A Structure for Modernism’, Wyndham Lewis Annual IX-X (2002-3), 65-72. On Lewis, Woolf and the theory of modernity.
‘“Changing our Common Life”: Wyndham Lewis Interprets Matisse and Picasso’, in Paul Edwards (ed.), The Great London Vortex: Modernist Literature and Art (Bath: Sulis Press, 2003), pp. 134-141.
With Michael Durman.
Review essay (untitled), Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism 4 (2003), 168-178.
Review of John Higgins, Raymond Williams; David Kadlec, Mosaic Modernism: Anarchism, Pragmatism, Culture; Michael North, Reading 1922.

‘Tracey Emin’, research seminar, Department of Art History, University of Plymouth at Exeter, 21 February 2003.
Invited plenary lecture, ‘Sword of Honour: The Invention of Disillusion’ for ‘One Hundred Years of Evelyn Waugh: An International Symposium’, University of La Rioja, Logroño, Spain, 15-17 May 2003.
‘How Gender Serves Trotskyism: Ken Loach’s Land and Freedom’ for ‘George Orwell in Spain: A Centenary Celebration’, University of Zaragoza at Jaca, Spain, May 22-24, 2003.

a) Seminar. ‘Vorticism: The First English Avant-Garde’, for ‘Modernist Cultures’, Modernist Studies Association 5, Birmingham, 25-28 September 2003.
Chair and seminar organiser.
b) Panel. ‘Egotism and Relation: A Structure for Modernism’, for MSA 5, as above, on the panel entitled ‘Varieties of Modernist Consciousness’.
‘Orwell, Wyndham Lewis, and the Origins of Cultural Studies’ for 9th International ‘Culture and Power’ Conference, Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, 4-7 November 2003.

‘Surrealism in Britain: Eileen Agar and David Gascoyne’, research seminar, Department of Art History, University of Plymouth at Exeter, 8 March 2002.
‘Wyndham Lewis and the Idea of the Twentieth Century’, postgraduate seminar, English Department, University of Birmingham, 20 March 2002.
‘After September 11: Educating the Centre: Rushdie, Gordimer, Naipaul’, for ‘The “Periphery” Viewing the World’, HASE Conference, Athens, May 24-27, 2002.
(Hellenic Association for the Study of English, 4th International Conference). Repeated for English Department research seminar, University of Plymouth at Exmouth.

Panel presentation: "W.H. Auden" Universiity of Birmingham. September 2003. Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference.
Plenary Conference: “Epic Logos: On First Looking into Several Homers” in the International Conference on “The Poetics of the Subject”, celebrated in University d'Aix-Provence, 28-29 March 2003.
Seminar on Auden and the images of war in the University of Lund, Sweden and the University of Karlskrona, Sweden, September 2003.
Plenary Conference: “Set Still on the Spies Career: Auden, Isherwood & Co and the Hermeneutics of Paranoia”, University of Bucharest in the International Conference “Bhucarest University English Department Annual Conference: The Secret and the Unknown", 3-5 June 2004.

“Relighting Lefty: Wyndham and Wystan in the Thirties”. Wyndham Lewis Annual, 2002-03, vol. ix-x, pp. 34-45. ISSN: 0142-6214
“Burbank with a Baedeker: Modernism´s Grand Tours”, in Modernist Travels: Special Issue in Travel Writing, vol. 8, no. 1, 2004. ISSN: 1364-5145.
“Chronology” (pp.ix-xx). “Introduction” (pp.1-14), y capítulo 8, “Auden´s Light and Serio-Comic Verse” (pp.96-109). In The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). ISBN: 0-521-82962-3 hardback, and 0-521-53647-2, paperback)
“Epic Logos: On First Looking into Several Homers”. En la revista electrónica: E-REA: Revue D´Etudes Anglophones. ISSN 1638-1718. Otoño 2004.
“Set Still on the Spies Career: Auden, Isherwood & Co and the Hermeneutics of Paranoia”. Próxima publicación en Proceedings of the Bucharest University English Department Annual Conference “The Secret and the Unknown”.
“The Answer Would Appear to Be a Lemon”: Rose Macaulay´s Civil War”. Próxima publicación en la revista English, primavera 2005.

The Second Year, la novela de Storm Jameson que fue inicialmente publicada en 1936. Nottingham: Trent Editions, 2004. (ISBN 1-84233-094-2)
Modernist Travels, un monográfico de la revista Studies in Travel Writing. Vol. 8, n. 1, 2004. ISSN: 1364-5145. Capítulo: “Burbank with a Baedeker: Modernism´s Grand Tours”. Pp. 1-18.
The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). ISBN 0-521-82962-3.

“Distorted Reading Under Canadian Establishment: Cultural Reality in the 20th Century. Percy Wyndham Lewis's Mature Production”. Congreso Internacional: "The versatile Text: New Histories of the Book", Edimburgh, 2002.
“El tratamiento de la falsa pareja en la obra de Miguel de Cervantes Don Quijote de La Mancha y su huella en la literatura modernista británica”. XIV Simposio de la SELGYC (Sociedad Española de Literatura General y Comparada). Alcalá de Henares, 2002.
“Towards a sociology of the novel: H.G. Wells’ The New Machiavelli and his continuity in the modernist tradition.” XXVI Congreso Internacional de AEDEAN, Santiago de Compostela, 2002.
“The root and the flower: tone, thematic motives and ideas in the work of Cervantes and their continuity in the first English avant-garde movement Vorticism and in late modernism”. 5th Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association. Birmingham, Reino Unido. 2003
“Radical Modernism”. VII Congreso Internacional de ESSE (European Society for the Study of English), Zaragoza, September, 2004.
In collaboration with María Jesús Hernáez Lerena “Lost Causes: Wyndham Lewis, Vorticism, and the Short Story” in the 8th International Conference for the Short Story in English “Crossing Boundaries”Alcalá de Henares, October, 2004.
“As to women … treat them kindly for they suffer from the herd: Wyndham Lewis as social commentator” in The English Department roundtable series (Cornell University, Ithaca, Nueva York, 2005)
“Wyndham Lewis’s women characters: the arch conjuring trick?” in the 16th Conference of British and American Studies (BAS) (Timisoara, Rumanía, 2005)

“Lack of Particularism in Percy Wyndham Lewis’ Self-Condemned: Some Loathsome Social Implications”. CD-Rom Actas del 25th Congreso de AEDEAN, Dep. Legal Gr-20038-02/Bernardi Producciones.
“Social implications in Percy Wyndham Lewis’ The Vulgar Streak: A resource theory approach” in The Grove, 1/Grupo de Investigación HUM. 0217 de la Junta de Andalucía/207-218/2002.
“(Mis)representing British working classes; the despicable mis(use) of power of Vincent Penhale in Percy Wyndham Lewis’ The Vulgar Streak” in (Mis)representations: Intersections of Culture and Power, Peter Lang Publishing Group/103-110/2003.
“Tragic Clowns/Male Comedians: Wyndham Lewis’s Enemy of the Stars and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot”. in Wyndham Lewis Annual, VIII/51-61/ Wyndham Lewis Society/2002. ISNN 0142-621
“A Resource Theory for approaching Interpersonal Relationships in Percy Wyndham Lewis’ Snooty Baronet” Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference of AEDEAN. León: Servicio de Publicaciones de La Universidad de León, Vol. I, CD- Rom, 2003. ISBN 84-688-4658-9. Dep. Legal LE 1522-2003.
“Towards a sociology of the novel: H.G. Wells’ The New Machiavelli and his continuity in the modernist tradition”. Fifty Years of English Studies in Spain (1952-2002): A Commemorative Volume. Santiago de Compostela: Servicio de Publicacions e Intercambio Científico, Vol. I. 161-169, 2003. ISBN 84-9750-257-4
“El tratamiento de la falsa pareja en la obra de Miguel de Cervantes Don Quijote de La Mancha y su huella en la literatura modernista británica”. La Literatura en la Literatura, Centro de Estudios Cervantinos: Alcalá de Henares, Vol. I, 147-156, 2004.
“Wyndham Lewis's Concern for Women: Making Sense of Tensions and Confusions in Everyday Life” in The Romanian Journal for the Study of English, Timisoara: Editura Universitatii de Vest, Editor Luminita Frentiu, 2006.

Intercambio de Recursos en la ficción de Percy Wyndham Lewis. Tesis doctoral (formato electrónico). 1/1-537/ ProQuest Information and Learning España/2002. ISBN: 0-493-47847-7. Nº de publicación en UMI: 3035240
A Resource Theory for Approaching Interpersonal Relationships in Percy Wyndham Lewis’s Fiction. Tesis doctoral, 1/1-537/ Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de La Rioja. (http://publicaciones.unirioja.es/tesis/tesis15.shtml) ISBN 84-688-4671-6.

2002 “Cruzada en solitario: la frustración del héroe romántico en la trilogía Sword of Honour de Evelyn Waugh”, in VII Jornadas de Literatura en Lengua Inglesa de los Siglos XX y XXI”, Universidad de Valladolid, 24 April.
2002 “Textual Indicators of Characterisation: A Narratoligical Approach to Brideshead Revisited”, XXVI Congreso AEDEAN, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 13 December.
2003 “Landscapes and Shadowlands: A Look at C.S. Lewis’s Irishness”, 3rd International Conference of the Spanish Association for Irish Studies (AEDEI), “Irish Landscapes”, Universidad de Almería, 31 May.
2003 “Apthorpe mannipulatus: Perspective and Doubles in Men at Arms”, Evelyn Waugh Centenary Conference, Hertford College, Oxford, 25 September.
2003 “Hombres en armas, de Evelyn Waugh”, XXVII Congreso AEDEAN, Universidad de Salamanca, 19 December.
2004 “Graham Greene, a Cinematic Novelist: Some Theoretical Aspects of the Influence of Cinema on Greene’s Fiction” en VIII Jornadas de Literatura en Lengua Inglesa de los Siglos XX y XXI”, Universidad de Valladolid, 29 April.
2004 “Influence or Convergence? Reflections on the Filmic Nature of Greene’s Fiction”, Graham Greene Centennial Conference: Following in the Footsteps of Monsignor Quixote”, Universidades de La Rioja. Complutense y Salamanca, 26-30 May.
2004 Panel presentation in “Radical Modernism”. ESSE, Zaragoza, September 2004.

2003 Coordinator of “One Hundred Years of Evelyn Waugh”, Universidad de La Rioja, 15-17 May. Website.
2004 Coordinator of “Graham Greene Centennial Conference: Following in the Footsteps of Monsignor Quixote”, Universidades de La Rioja. Complutense y Salamanca, 26-30 May.
2003 Neil Sinyard (Hull University) “Graham Greene and cinema”. 28 November. Universidad de La Rioja.

Rosario Lakunza Miguel “The Right Use of Language: An Introduction to Evelyn Waugh’s Poetics” passed in July, 2002.
Noelia Domínguez Carballo “The Importance and Scope of Wyndham Lewis’s Modernist Aesthetic in Evelyn Waugh’s Early Fiction”, passed in July 2003.
Ismael Ibáñez Rosales “The Author’s Self-Effacement in Graham Greene’s Monsignor Quixote, passed in July 2004.

2002 “Waugh Reviews Greene: The Heart of the Matter Revisited”, en Barrio, J.M., Abad, P., y Ruiz, J.M. Estudios de literatura inglesa del siglo XX (6), Valladolid: Centro Buendía, Universidad de Valladolid, ISBN: 84-8448-188-3, pp. 307-316.
2003 “Cruzada en solitario: la frustración del héroe romántico en la trilogía Sword of Honour de Evelyn Waugh”, en Barrio, J.M., Abad, P., y Ruiz, J.M. Estudios de literatura inglesa del siglo XX (7), Valladolid: Centro Buendía, Universidad de Valladolid.
2003 “Textual Indicators of Characterisation: A Narratological Approach to Brideshead Revisited”, Actas XXVI Congreso AEDEAN Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 12-13 December.
2003 “Graham Greene, a Cinematic Novelist: Some Theoretical Aspects of the Influence of Cinema on Greene’s Fiction” en Barrio, J.M. y Abad, P., Estudios de literatura inglesa del siglo XX (8), Valladolid: Centro Buendía, Universidad de Valladolid.

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Carmelo Cunchillos Jaime (ed.), Wyndham Lewis the Radical: Essays on Literature and Modernity (Bern: Peter Lang, 2007)

This collection of articles has been possible thanks to a research project (2002-2006) entitled “La estética modernista a través de un prisma radical: La visión satírica de Percy Wyndham Lewis y su continuidad”, supervised by Prof. Carmelo Cunchillos Jaime (University of La Rioja, Spain) and supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (BFF2002-02842)

The team members of this research project are Dr. Mª Mar Asensio Aróstegui, Prof. Carmelo Cunchillos Jaime, Dr. María Jesús Hernáez, Dra. Melania Terrazas Gallego and Dr. Carlos José Villar Flor (University of La Rioja, Spain); Dr. Alan Munton (Plymouth University, England) and Prof. Stan Smith (Nottingham Trent University, England).

Invited guests to this book are well-known Lewisian scholars: Prof. Paul Edwards (Bath Spa University College, England), Dr. Michael Nath (Formerly Universities of Edinburgh, Keele and Exeter), Prof. Peter Caracciolo (Formerly Royal Holloway College of the University of London, England) and Dr. David A. Wragg (University of Northampton)

1. Dr. Mª Mar Asensio Aróstegui
“Postmodern (Dis)Continuities: Approaching Jeanette Winterson from a Lewisian perspective”

2. Dr. María Jesús Hernáez Lerena
“Are Lewis’s short stories pathological?”

3. Dr. Melania Terrazas Gallego
‘Intricate models of conflict in Wyndham Lewis’s Fiction’

4. Dr. Carlos Villar Flor & Noelia Domínguez Carballo
‘Lewisian Footprints in Evelyn Waugh’s Early Satires’

5. Dr Alan Munton
"From Chaplin to Orwell: Wyndham Lewis and the Origins of Cultural Criticism"

6. Peter L. Caracciolo
“From Signorelli to Caligari: Allusions to paintings and film in The Human Age and its visual precursors”

8. Michael Nath
‘We are unknown to ourselves, we knowers’: More Thoughts on Lewis’s ‘Paramount Influence’

9. Dr. David A. Wragg
‘Modernity’s ‘Reality’ – Wyndham Lewis, Blast 1, and the Critical Historiography of Modernism’