Dr Hywel Dix

Recent Publications - Books - Compatriots or Competitors: Welsh, Scottish, English and Northern Irish Writing and Brexit in Comparative Contexts. Contracted to University of Wales Press, forthcoming in 2021-22.

- The Late-Career Novelist: Career Construction, Authors and Autofiction. Bloomsbury: 2017.

- After Raymond Williams: Cultural Materialism and the Break-Up of Britain. Second edition. University of Wales Press, 2013. - Postmodern Fiction and the Break-Up of Britain. London: Continuum, 2010.

Edited Books - Career Construction Theory and Life Writing: Narrative and Autobiographical Thinking across the Professions. Routledge, 2020.

- Autofiction in English. Palgrave, 2018.

- Multicultural Narratives: Traces and Perspectives (co-ed). Cambridge Scholars Press, 2018.

Edited Special Issue of Journal - Career Construction Theory and Life Writing. Special issue of Life Writing, 17.1 March 2020.

Chapters in Books - ‘Autofiction, Post-conflict Narratives and New Memory Cultures’ in The Autofictional: Approaches, Affordances, Forms ed. Alexandra Effe, Marie Lindskov Hansen and Hannie Lawlor. Palgrave Macmillan: Forthcoming in 2021.

- ‘From vocational calling to career construction: Late-career authors and critical self-reflection’ in Researching and Writing on Contemporary Art and Artists: Challenges, Practices and Complexities, ed. Christopher Wiley and Ian Pace. Palgrave Macmillan: 2020.

- ‘Conclusion: New Nodes of Intersection’ in Mapping Cultural Identities and Intersections: Imagological Readings ed. Onorina Botezat and Mustafa Kirca. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2019.

- ‘From Folk Artists to Integrated Professionals: The portrayal of tattoos in The Electric Michelangelo and Voodoo Pilchard’ in Tattoos in Crime and Detective Narratives: Making and Remaking ed. Kate Watson and Katharine Cox. Manchester University Press, 2019.

- ‘From Tonka Beans to Magic Seeds: VS Naipaul’s Late Career Fiction of Self-Retrospect’ in Seepersad and Sons: Naipaulian Synergies ed. V.J. Maharaj. Peepal Tree Press, 2019.

- ‘Writing the Nations: Welsh, Northern Irish, and Scottish Literature’ in The History of British Women’s Writing, Vol. 10, 1970 - Present ed. Emma Parker and Mary Eagleton. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

- ‘The Retrospective Stage: Late Career Fiction and Authorial Self-renewal’ in Literary Careers in the Modern Era ed. Nicola Evans and Guy Davidson. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

- ‘Cymbeline and the Display of Empire’ in Shakespeare and Tyranny: Regimes of Reading in Europe and Beyond ed. Keith Gregor. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

- ‘Devolution and Cultural Catch-Up: Decoupling England and its Literature from English Literature’ in Literature of an Independent England: Revisions of England, Englishness and English Literature ed. Claire Westall and Michael Gardiner. Palgrave Macmillan. July 2013.

- ‘“To Speak in New Ways”: Class and Poetry in Wales since 1970’ in Slanderous Tongues: Essays on Welsh Poetry in English 1970- 2000 ed. Daniel Williams. Bridgend: Seren, 2010.

- ‘The Pedagogy of Cultural Materialism’ in About Raymond Williams ed. Monika Seidl and Larry Grossberg. London: Routledge, 2009.

Articles in Refereed Journals - ‘Autofiction, Colonial Massacres and the Politics of Memory.’ University of Bucharest Review. 22 (1), 2020.

- ‘Unfulfilled Vocations in Contemporary American Fiction.’ Textual Practice. Published online 7/7/20 ahead of forthcoming print version.

- ‘From Writer’s Block to Extended Plot: Career Construction Theory and Lives in Writing.’ Life Writing 16, 2018.

- ‘Autofiction: The forgotten face of French theory.’ Word and Text, 7 (1), 2017.

- ‘On Balkanism and Orientalism: Undifferentiated Patterns of Perception in Literary and Critical Representations of Eastern Europe’. Textual Practice, Vol. 29 (5), 2015.

- ‘Transnational Imagery in the Poetry of Imtiaz Dharker’. Anglistik, 26(1), 2015.