Literary Politics ― The Politics of Literature and the Literature of Politics

Deborah Philips is Professor of Literature and Cultural History at the University of Brighton, UK. She has published on feminist theory, post war fiction and popular culture. Her books include Fairground Attractions: A genealogy of the pleasure ground (2012), Writing Romance: Women's Fiction 1945-2005 ( 2006), with Garry Whannel The Trojan Horse: the growth of commercial sponsorship ( 2013), with Ian Haywood, Brave New Causes (1998), and with Liz Linnington and Debra Penman Writing Well: Creative Writing and Mental Health (1999).

Katy Shaw is a leading authority on the literature of the 1984-85 UK miner's strike and twenty first century writings. Her research interests include contemporary literature, especially working class literature, cultural representations of post-industrial regeneration and the languages of comedy. She is editor of C21 Literature: Journal of 21st Century Writing and Director of the C21 Centre for research at the University of Brighton. She is the author of Mining the Meaning: Cultural representations of the 1984-85 UK miner's strike (2012), David Peace: Texts and Contexts (2011), and the editor of Analysing David Peace (2011). She is currently completing a monograph Hauntology A Critical Introduction.