James Gilbert

Thesis title: The Intersection Between the Spiritual and the Existential in Ernest Hemingway's Early Fiction

Biography

Background

James Gilbert studied for his undergraduate degree in English Language and Literature at Queen's University. He holds an MLitt in Modern & Contemporary Literature and Culture from the University of St. Andrews as well as an MSc in United States Literature from the University of Edinburgh.  

Undergraduate teaching

Volunteer English Language & Literature tutor from 2010-2012. 

 

Research summary

I am interested in a variety of topics concerning American literature of the twenieth century, with particular interest in the literature of the nineteen-sixties. 

Current research interests

Currently, I am interested in exploring the American minimalist aesthetic as used by authors active in the nineteen-sixties. More specifically, how this aesthetic choice reflects a return to the American minimalist form pioneered by Anderson and Hemingway as a response to the experimental American writing styles more often associated with the period.

Past research interests

I have previously written on: inverted symbolism in the novels of William Faulkner, character identity and romantic relationships in Ernest Hemingway's short fiction, mechanization in the post-war era in relation to the early fiction of Kurt Vonnegut, and Cold War anxieties in the early work of J.D. Salinger.
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