Rory Michael Hutchings, University of Kent PhD
Biography
PhD student at the University of Kent. Thesis supervised by Dr Derek Ryan, provisionally titled 'Bad Animals: Vermin, Health, and Modernist Literature'.
Research interests include Vermin and literature, modernist cultures, modernism and fascism, modernism and "the masses", hauntology, and horror literature and cinema.
Requests for collaborations should be directed to the e-mail address linked here.
Publications
Articles
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Hutchings, R. M. (2026) ‘Chapter XIV. Modern Literature: 14. James Joyce’, The Year’s Work in English Studies. Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ywes/maaf060.
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Hutchings, R. M. (2024) ‘Modern literature - James Joyce’, The Year’s Work in English Studies. Oxford University Press.
Abstract View in KAR
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Hutchings, R. M. (2020) ‘’Crawling up the Walls: Kafka’s Domestic Space’’, The Modernist Review. British Association for Modernist Studies. Available at: https://modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2020/05/01/kafkas-domestic-space/.
Other Conference Items
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Hutchings, R. M. (2022) ‘The Pasture of Rats: Verminous Bodies of the First World War’. New Voices in Animal Humanities.
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Hutchings, R. M. (2022) ‘“The Whole World is a Slaughterhouse!”: Eating Animals and Jewish Vegetarianism’. Workshop on ’Animals, Humans, Writing’ module.
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Hutchings, R. M. (2021) ‘’Vermin, not animals’: hygiene, modernism, and the verminous’. New Work in Modernist Studies 11. Available at: https://bams.ac.uk/2021/09/16/new-work-in-modernist-studies-11-online-10-dec-2021-deadline-20-oct/.
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Hutchings, R. M. (2020) ‘Virginia Woolf’s Mystic Garden(s)’. Gardens Trust 10th New Research Symposium.
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Hutchings, R. M. (2019) ‘“A Meeting Place Between Man and Nature”: Mysticism and the Modernist Garden’. Botanical Modernisms.
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Hutchings, R. M. (2019) ‘Multidirectional Eco-Memory and Environmental Justice in Linda Hogan’s “Solar Storms”’. Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (UK and Ireland): ’Co-emergence, Co-creation, Co-existence’.
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Hutchings, R. M. (2019) ‘Haunting and Hauntology in Hilary Mantel’s “Beyond Black”’. GLITS ’Outsiders’ Conference.
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Hutchings, R. M. (2019) ‘Troubling the Boundary: Imagining the Nonhuman in “Ulysses”’. Beastly Modernisms.
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Hutchings, R. M. (2018) ‘Sound at the Limits of Sense: Jordan Scott’s “Lanterns at Guantanamo” and the Subversive Potential of Sound’. GLITS ’Sound and Silence’ Conference.
Reviews
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Hutchings, R. M. (2022) ‘Book Review: Eliot and Beckett’s Low Modernism: Humility and Humiliation’, The Modernist Review. British Association for Modernist Studies. Available at: https://modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2022/03/03/book-review-eliot-and-becketts-low-modernism-humility-and-humiliation/.