Dr Robert Duggan

Robert's research is focused on British literature and he has published on a wide of range of contemporary writers including Martin Amis, Angela Carter, Ian McEwan, Will Self, Iain Banks, Toby Litt, Rupert Thomson, Patrick McGrath and China Miéville. Robert's monograph The Grotesque in Contemporary British Fiction was published by Manchester University Press in 2013. Robert's teaches 20th and 21st-century literature at UCLan including a special module on the graphic novel.

After completing his PhD, Robert lectured at a number of universities including Manchester University and Keele University before joining the University of Chichester as a Senior Lecturer, where he taught literature and literary theory and organised a conference on 'Literature,, Terrorism and 9/11'. in 2010. He joined UCLan as a Senior Lecturer in 2013.