Dr Neil McCaw 

Reader in Literature and Culture                                          Programme Leader BA Creative Writing 

Arts 

Email:

Neil.Mccaw@winchester.ac.uk 

Phone:

+44 (0) 1962 827364 

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Expertise

Crime and detective fiction, Sherlock Holmes, Victorian literature and culture, creative writing pedagogy.

Publications

Including:

• Adapting Detective Fiction: Crime, Englishness and the TV Detectives (Continuum, 2010) (forthcoming)
• How to Read Texts (Continuum, 2008)
• A Study in Sherlock; Uncovering the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection (ACD Press, 2007)
• Writing Irishness in Nineteenth-Century British Culture (Ashgate, 2004)
• George Eliot and Victorian Historiography (Macmillan, 2000)
• ‘The Ambiguity of Evil in TV Detective Fiction,’ in Evil, Law and the State: Issues in State Power and Violence (Interdisciplinary Press, 2009)
• ‘Voicing Rebellion in Victorian Fiction: Towards a Textual Commemoration,’ in Laurence M Geary (ed.) Rebellion & Remembrance in Modern Ireland (Cork University Press, 2008)
• ‘Crabs (and stories) walking sideways: life beyond the death of the story’ in Maggie Butt (ed.), Story: the Heart of the Matter (Greenwood, 2007)
• ‘Toward a Literary Historiography in Gaskell and Eliot’ in Lynette Felber (ed.), Clio’s Daughters: Victorian Women Making History (University of Delaware, 2007)
• ‘Those Other Villagers: Policing Englishness in Caroline Graham’s The Killings at Badger’s Drift’ in Julie H. Kim (ed.) Race and Religion in the Post-Colonial British Detective Story (McFarland, 2005)

Research Interests

Victorian literature and culture, Crime fiction, Arthur Conan Doyle, Representations of Psychopathy, Creative Writing, Anglo-Irish literature, Philosophies of History.

Funding Awards and Professional Membership

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• National Association for Writers in Education (Member)