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Associate Professor John Attridge

Associate Professor John Attridge

Associate Professor
Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of the Arts and Media

I am an Associate Professor of English in the School of the Arts and Media. Most of my research deals withÌýmodernist fiction;Ìýparticular focuses include modernist conceptions of authorship, the relationship between literature and specialization, technological mediaÌýand the cultural history of trust. My articles have appearedÌýin journals suchÌýas ELH, Modernism/modernity, NOVELÌýandÌýModern Fiction Studies, as well asÌýin several edited collections.ÌýI am co-editorÌýof two collections of essays:ÌýModernist Work: Labor, Aesthetics, and the Work of ArtÌý(2019) andÌýIncredible Modernism: Literature, Trust, and DeceptionÌý(Ashgate, 2013).Ìý
Phone
+61 2 9385 4484
E-mail
j.attridge@unsw.edu.au
Location
228, Level 2 Robert Webster
  • Book Chapters | 2019
    Attridge J, 2019, 'An Introduction to Modernist Work', in Modernist Work: Labor, Aesthetics, and the Work of Art, Bloomsbury, pp. 1 - 17,
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Attridge J, 2018, 'Ford's The Good Soldier', in Haslam S; Colombino L; O’Malley S (ed.), The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford, Routledge, Abingdon,
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Attridge J, 2016, 'Conrad, G.E. Moore and Idealism', in Hampson R; Baxter KI (ed.), Conrad and Language, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 44 - 63,
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Attridge J, 2016, 'Episodic Trust: Self, Society and Sociology in A la recherché du temps perdu', in Incredible Modernism Literature Trust and Deception, pp. 199 - 214,
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Attridge J, 2016, 'The Milieu is the Message: Henry James and Mediation', in Pryor S; Trotter D (ed.), Writing, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies, Open Humanities Press, London, pp. 67 - 84,
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Attridge J, 2015, 'Ford and Conrad', in Hawkes R; Chantler A (ed.), An Introduction to Ford Madox Ford, Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 23 - 36,
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Attridge J, 2015, 'Mind, body and embarrassment in Henry James's The Awkward Age', in Taylor J (ed.), Modernism and Affect: Feeling in Modern Literature and Culture, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 20 - 38,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Attridge J, 2014, ''A taboo on the mention of taboo': Englishness and taciturnity in Parade's End and André Maurois' Les Silences du colonel Bramble', in Hawkes R; Chantler A (ed.), Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End: The First World War, Culture, and Modernity, Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 23 - 37,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Attridge J, 2014, 'Mythomaniac modernism: lying and bullshit in Flann O'Brien', in McDonald R; Murphet J (ed.), Strange Enlightenments: Flann O'Brien and Modernism, Bloomsbury, New York, pp. 27 - 40,
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Attridge J, 2013, 'Eclecticism and its discontents: Les Ecrits nouveaux (1917-22) and La Revue européenne (1923-31)', in Brooker P; Bru S; Thacker A; Weikop C (ed.), The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume III: Europe 1880 - 1940, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 203 - 218
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Attridge J, 2013, 'Episodic trust: self, society and sociology in A la recherche du temps perdu', in Attridge J; Rosenquist R (ed.), Incredible Modernism: Literature, Trust and Deception, Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 199 - 214
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Attridge J, 2013, 'Introduction: Literature, trust and deception', in Attridge J; Rosenquist R (ed.), Incredible Modernism: Literature, Trust and Deception, Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 1 - 20
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Attridge J, 2010, 'Liberalism and Modernism in the Edwardian Era: New Liberals at Ford's English Review', in Harding J (ed.), Ford Madox Ford, Modernist Magazines and Editing, Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 169 - 184
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Attridge J, 2010, 'Murray Bail', in Shaffer BW (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, Wiley-Blackwell, UK
    Book Chapters | 2008
    Attridge J, 2008, ''We Will Listen to None but Specialists': Ford, the rise of specialization, and the English Review', in Gasiorek A; Moore D (ed.), Ford Madox Ford. Literary Networks and Cultural Transformations, Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 29 - 42
    Book Chapters | 2005
    Attridge J, 2005, ''I Don't Read Novels ... I Know What's in ‘em': Impersonality, Impressionism and Responsibility in Parade’s End', in Reynier C; Ganteau J-M (ed.), Impersonality and Emotion in Twentieth-Century British Literature, Montpellier, France
  • Edited Books | 2019
    Attridge J; Rydstrand H, (ed.), 2019, Modernist Work: Labor, Aesthetics, and the Work of Art, Bloomsbury, New York,
    Edited Books | 2013
    Attridge J; Rosenquist R, (ed.), 2013, Incredible Modernism: Literature, Trust and Deception, Ashgate, Farnham
  • Journal articles | 2026
    Attridge J, 2026, 'Typical Roundness: Fictional Character and the Culture Concept in Howards End', Novel, 59, pp. 95 - 117,
    Journal articles | 2025
    Attridge J, 2025, 'Atmosphere, Character, and Scale in Virginia Woolf', Mfs Modern Fiction Studies, 71, pp. 1 - 26,
    Journal articles | 2025
    Attridge J, 2025, 'Review of Kristin Grogan, Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work (2025)', The Space Between: literature and culture, 1914-1945,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Attridge J, 2024, 'The Prose of the World: Everyday Life, Specialization and Conrad's Descriptive Style', Narrative, 32, pp. 300 - 316,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Attridge J, 2024, 'The Prose of the World: Everyday Life, Specialization, and Conrad's Descriptive Style', Narrative, 32, pp. 301 - 316,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Attridge J, 2023, 'Teaching Annotation with The Portrait of a Lady', Digital English,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Attridge J, 2022, 'Contingent Sociality and Same-sex Desire in À la recherche du temps perdu', Journal of Modern Literature, 45, pp. 158 - 176,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Attridge J, 2020, 'Live for Me: Vicarious Experience and Aesthetic Education in The Ambassadors and Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship', Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 53, pp. 37 - 56,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Attridge J, 2019, '"la vaste rumeur d'autrefois": noise, memory, and mediation in A la recherche du temps perdu', Modernism/modernity, 26, pp. 617 - 637,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Attridge J, 2018, 'The Crisis of Liberalism: Contracts and Promises in Joyce's Political Journalism and Dubliners', Occasion, 11,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Attridge J, 2017, 'Houellebecq's Occidentalism', Australian Humanities Review, pp. 65 - 78,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Attridge J, 2014, 'Nonsense, ordinary language philosophy and Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman', Modern Fiction Studies, 60, pp. 298 - 319,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Attridge J, 2013, 'Two types of secret agency: Conrad, causation and popular spy fiction', Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 55, pp. 125 - 158,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Attridge J, 2012, 'Review essay: The Saddest Tory (review of Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End)', Modernism-Modernity, 19, pp. 799 - 803,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Attridge J, 2011, ''Human expertness': Professionalism, Training, and the Prefaces to the New York Edition', Henry James Review, 32, pp. 29 - 44,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Attridge J, 2011, 'The Lesson of the Master: Learning and Cognition in What Maisie Knew', Sydney Studies in English, 37, pp. 22 - 43,
    Journal articles | 2010
    Attridge J, 2010, '"The Yellow-Dog Thing": Joseph Conrad, Verisimilitude, and Professionalism', ELH - English Literary History, 77, pp. 267 - 296,
    Journal articles | 2008
    Attridge J, 2008, 'Steadily and Whole: Ford Madox Ford and Modernist Sociology', Modernism-Modernity, 15, pp. 297 - 315,
    Journal articles | 2004
    Attridge J, 2004, 'Detourism: Murray Bail's Photographic Fiction', Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 39, pp. 69 - 91,
  • Creative Written Works | 2022
    Attridge J, 2022, Remembrance of telephony past: what Proust made of the phone, Psyche magazine, Benjamin M, (ed.),
  • Media | 2018
    Attridge J, 2018, How Conrad’s imperial horror story Heart of Darkness resonates with our globalised times,
    Media | 2018
    Attridge J, 2018, How a US judge decided ‘artistic expression’ was a legitimate defence of discrimination,

Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence 2019

ANU Humanities Research Centre Fellow 2016

Bruce Harkness Young Conrad Scholar Award 2010

Harry Ransom Center Fellow 2009-10

Australian Postgraduate Award

My Teaching

I convene "ARTS2036 Modernism Text and Screen" and "ARTS3054ÌýThe Getting of Wisdom: Youth, Literature and the Formation of the Self". I welcome PhD and Honours projects on literary modernism broadly defined, and especially any of the research areas listed in this profile.