Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts and Education, Division of International Communications

Dr Macdonald Daly

Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts and Education, Division of International Communications

Qualifications

MA (University of Glasgow), D.Phil (University of Oxford), PGCE (University of Oxford)

Contact

•Room 321, Admin Building

199 Taikang East Road

Ningbo 315100

China

Campus: Ningbo China

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Biography

Macdonald Daly has worked on all three campuses of the University of Nottingham. Hewas Lecturer in Modern Literature in the School of English Studies, Nottingham UK, before becoming Director of the University’s Postgraduate School of Critical Theory, then founding Head of Department of what is now the Nottingham department of Culture, Film and Media. He was also founding Director of Studies in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. He is perhaps the only member of staff to have held senior positions on all three sites.He has also been an exchange professor at the National University of Singapore. His main research interests are in Marxist cultural theory, postmodernist theory, psychoanalysis, the interface between literary and cultural studies, and post-conflict and radio studies. He is currently writing a book on the BBC radio station, Radio 4.

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Introduction to Communication Theory

• Introduction to Cultural Studies

• Semiotics

• Psychoanalysis

Postgraduate

Dr Daly has supervised approximately 30 research doctoral candidates in the last 20 years, in areas too diverse to specify, and has has taught on 11 different Masters programmes at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Research

Published Books andMonographs

Ed. (with Emma Dawson),‘Black and Whites’ and other new short stories from Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur: Silverfish Books, forthcoming, 2012).

Ed. (with Cristina Demaria), The Genres of Post-Conflict Testimonies (Nottingham: CCC Press, 2010).

Ed., Dead Iraqis: Selected Short Stories of Ellis Sharp (Seattle: New Ventures, 2009).

(With Sean Matthews), AcademicFreedom and the University of Nottingham(York: Zoilus Press, 2009).

Ed. (with Lee Baxandall and Stefan Morawski), Karl Marx and Frederick Engels on Literature and Art(2nd ed., Nottingham: CCC Press, 2006).

A Primer in Marxist Aesthetics (London: Zoilus Press, 1999).

Ed. (with Else R. P. Vieira) Silviano Santiago in Conversation(London: Zoilus Press, 1999).

Crackpot Texts: Absurd Explorations in Modern and Postmodern Literature (London: Zoilus Press, 1997).

Ed., Kangaroo by D. H. Lawrence (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1997).

Ed., Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1996).

Ed., The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells (London: Dent Everyman, 1995).

Ed., Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence (London: Dent Everyman, 1994).

Ed. (with Alexander George), Margaret Thatcher in Her Own Words (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987).

Chapters in books

““Marx, Engels and Early Marxist Criticism”, The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism Volume Six: The Nineteenth Century, c. 1830-1914, ed. M. Habib (Cambridge: CUP, in press, 2012).

”Ethics, Writing and Scholarship: Does Hoggart Meet His Own Standards?”, Richard Hoggart: Culture and Critique, ed. Michael Bailey and Mary Eagleton (Nottingham: CCC Press, 2011), pp. 87-94.

“The Writing Out of Socialism: Dystopian Technologies, Nineteen Eighty-Four and A Clockwork Orange”, Writing Under Socialism, ed. Sara Jones and Meesha Nehru (Nottingham: CCC Press, 2011), pp. 259-69.

“Cultural Materialism” (6,000 words), The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory, ed. M. Keith Booker (Oxford: Blackwell, 2010).

“Shall we arrive at Nineteen Eighty-Four for Clockwork Orange reasons?”, Only Connect: Texts – Places – Politics: Festschrift for Bernd-Peter Lange (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2008), pp. 17-27.

“The Dialectic of Conflict and Culture: the Case of Leon Trotsky and Other, Less Fortunate Statesmen”, Happiness and Post-Conflict, ed. Constance Goh and Bernard McGuirk (Nottingham: CCC Press, 2007), pp. 144-56.

“Marxist Criticism”, The Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics, ed. M. Keith Booker (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005), pp. 460-468.

“Sons and Lovers”, Sons and Lovers: a Casebook, ed. Andrew Harrison and John Worthen (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).

“As Margens e o Centro: as Negociações Literariás Entre o Escocês e o Inglês”, [“Margin and Centre: Scottish/English Literary Negotiations”, in Else Vieira (ed.), Confrontos con Fronteiras [Confronting Frontiers] (Federal University of Minas Gerais [Brazil], UFMG Editora,2004).

Published peer-reviewed Journal Articles

“Nipping Bloom in the Bud: A Critique of The Western Canon”, Revista Brasil de Literatura [Literaturas de Língua Inglesa], vol. 3 (2000) (electronic journal at (5,500 words).

"Malice Aforethought: The Fictions of Ellis Sharp", Critique (Washington) 39 (2) (Winter 1998), pp. 139-53.

“Politics and the Scottish Language”, Hard Times (Berlin) 64 (Autumn 1998).

"Lawrence, Leavis, and the Left", Durham University Journal87 (2) (1996), pp. 343-56.

"Gray Eminence and Kelman Ataxy: A Reply to H. Baum", Gairfish 9 (1995), pp. 23-35.

"Concplags and Totplag: Lanark Exposed", Edinburgh Review 93 (Spring 1995), pp. 167-99.

"Scottish Poetry and the Great War", Scottish Literary Journal 21 (2) (November 1994), pp. 79-96.

"Conference or Consumerism?", The European English Messenger 3 (2) (Autumn 1994), pp. 70-2.

"D.H.Lawrence and the 1912 Miners' Strike", English Studies (The Hague) 75 (2) (March 1994), pp. 133-45.

"D.H.Lawrence and Labour in the Great War", Modern Language Review 89 (1) (January 1994), pp. 19-38.

"Total Trash: Televisual Pessimism", Chartist 145 (November-December 1993), pp. 10-11.

"What Labour Could Do About the Tabloids", British Journalism Review 3 (4) (Winter 1992), pp. 29-33.

"The City of Caxton and the Electronic Suburbs", English in Education 26 (3) (Autumn 1992), pp. 11-18.

"Labour and the Tabloids", Chartist 139 (November-December 1992), pp. 28-9.

"Quasi-Anti-Vivisection in the Eighteenth Century", Durham University Journal 82 (2) (July 1990), pp. 187-90.

"English Teaching and the ‘Schooly' Text", English in Education 24 (2) (Summer 1990), pp. 31-7.

"Vivisection in Eighteenth-Century Britain", British Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies 12 (1) (Spring 1989), pp. 57-67.

(With Sarah Matthews, Di Middleton, Huw Parker, Juliette Prior and Steve Waters), “Different Views of the Subject: a PGCE Perspective”, The English Magazine 22 (Summer 1989), pp. 15-17.

(With Gordon Riddell), “The History of British Public Libraries”, History Today 38 (October 1988), pp. 6-9.

(With Alexander George), "’It's’ Misspelled: History of an Error in The Waste Land”, Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand 11 (4) (1987), pp. 169-70.

“All Heaven in a Rage”, History Today 37 (May 1987), pp. 7-9.

“D.H.Lawrence and Walter Brierley”, D.H.Lawrence: The Journal of the D.H.Lawrence Society 4 (1986), pp. 22-9.

Fiction

“Trotsky Dies”, Meshuggah (New York) 14 (January 1997), pp. 11-14.

(With Ellis Sharp), Engels on Video: A Joint Production (short stories) (London: Zoilus Press, 1995).

"An Argument Against Abolishing Socialism", The Gong (1994-95), p. 34.

"The Metafictionist Manifesto", Massacre 5 (London: Indelible Inc., 1994), pp. 24-32.

"Your Average Working Kelman", Cencrastus 46 (Autumn 1993), pp. 14-16.

"Punishment Essays", Critical Quarterly 34 (4) (Winter 1992), pp. 65-71.

"Examiner's Report", English in Education 25 (2) (Summer 1991), pp. 72-8.