Halliwell, Martin R. 1970-

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Halliwell, Martin R. 1970-

PERSONAL:

Born June 7, 1970, in Derbyshire, England; son of David (an engineer) and Jean Halliwell; married Laraine Porter (a media center director), April 1, 2000. Education: University of Exeter, B.A. (with first-class honors), 1992, M.A. (with distinction), 1993; University of Nottingham, Ph.D., 1996. Hobbies and other interests: Cricket.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Kinoulton, Nottinghamshire, England. Office—University of Leicester, University Rd., Leicester LE1 7RH, England. E-mail—[email protected]

CAREER:

De Montfort University, Leicester, England, research fellow in English and American studies, 1996-2000; University of Leicester, Leicester, England, professor of American studies, 2000—. Woodrow Wilson Centre, visiting fellow at Kennan Institute, 2003; Oxford University, senior fellow at Rothermere American Institute, 2007.

MEMBER:

British Association of American Studies (member of executive committee), American Studies Association, Midwest Modern Language Association, Modernist Studies Association, Organization of American Historians, Kinoulton Cricket Club.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Fellow, Arts and Humanities Research Council, 2002.

WRITINGS:

Romantic Science and the Experience of Self, Ashgate Publishing (Burlington, VT), 1999.

Modernism and Morality, Palgrave (New York, NY), 2001.

(With Andrew Mousley) Critical Humanisms: Humanist/Antihumanist Dialogues, Edinburgh University Press (Edinburgh, Scotland), 2003.

Images of Idiocy: The Idiot Figure in Modern Fiction and Film, Ashgate Publishing (Burlington, VT), 2004.

The Constant Dialogue: Reinhold Niebuhr and American Intellectual Culture, Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, MD), 2005.

Transatlantic Modernism, Edinburgh University Press (Edinburgh, Scotland), 2006.

American Culture in the 1950s, Edinburgh University Press (Edinburgh, Scotland), 2007.

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