Louis Goddard

louisgoddard@gmail.com / github.com/ltrgoddard / @ltrgoddard

17c Blythe Hill, London SE6 4UL / +44 (0)7909 027117

Education

2013–17: Ph.D., University of Sussex (Pass, no corrections - PDF version)
Title: ‘J.H. Prynne in Context, 1955–1975’
Supervisor: Professor Keston Sutherland
Examiners: Professor David Herd (external) and Dr. Hope Wolf (internal)
Funding: Arts and Humanities Research Council (£53,594)
2012–13: M.Phil., University of Cambridge (Distinction)
Course: English Studies: Criticism and Culture
College: Gonville and Caius
Funding: Kathleen Hannay Memorial Charity (£7,176)
2008–11: B.A. (Hons.), University of Oxford (First class)
Course: English Language and Literature
College: Mansfield

Publications

2017: ‘Migration Patterns: Two Little Magazines of 1960–62’, Textual Practice, 31.2 (2017), pp. 365–78, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0950236X.2016.1188143; ‘“An Object With No Predecessors?” A Computational Reading of J.H. Prynne’s For the Monogram’, Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, 9.1 (2017), https://poetry.openlibhums.org/article/doi/10.16995/biip.9/
2016: ‘J.H. Prynne’, in Jay Parini, ed., British Writers, Supplement XXIII (Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2017), pp. 303–19
2015: ‘“A few feet of film run backwards”: Tracing the Sonic Construction of Shellfire, 1914–30’, in Michael Bull and Les Back, eds, The Auditory Culture Reader, 2nd edn (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), pp. 293–302
2014: ‘Higher Education: A Tale of Two Payslips’, The Intergenerational Foundation (2014), http://www.if.org.uk/archives/5409/higher-education-a-tale-of-two-payslips; ‘De Kooning, O’Hara, Prynne: Towards a Poetics of Paint’, Bristol Journal of English Studies, 4 (2014), http://englishjournal.blogs.ilrt.org/files/2014/04/De-Kooning-O%E2%80%99Hara-Prynne-Towards-a-Poetics-of-Paint-Louis-Goddard.pdf

Grants and prizes

2014–15: Miscellaneous conference and research travel grants (£1,685)
School of English, University of Sussex
2014: Rose and Sigmund Strochlitz Travel Grant ($500)
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut; Anthony Howard Award for Young Journalists (shortlisted)
Received special commendation from judging panel
2012–13: Miscellaneous conference and research travel grants (£382)
Faculty of English / Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge
University of Strathclyde
2011: Gibbs Prize for best performance in Paper 1, Linguistics (£50)
Faculty of English, University of Oxford

Teaching and assessment

2015: Texts in Time 1 (School of English, University of Sussex)
Delivered two workshops per week on a large, historically focussed first-year course covering 19th- and 20th-century literature.; Critical Approaches 2 (School of English, University of Sussex)
Co-taught a term-long, first-year introductory course on critical theory with Dr. Sam Solomon, leading a number of seminars.
2012–15: Specialist Marker (Cambridge Assessment)
Marked English Literature Admissions Test (ELAT) scripts for the University of Oxford and GCSE English Literature scripts for OCR.

Conference papers

2018: ‘Dark net Darwinism: how criminals stay ahead of the game’ (Nordic IT Security, Stockholm, 15 November)
2017: ‘Dark net research: international cases’ (Netzwerk Recherche, Hamburg, 28–30 June); ‘Lessons from the dark net applied in high-pressure situations at a UK newspaper’ (Nordic IT Security, Stockholm, 7 November); ‘Finding your way on the dark net’ (European Investigative Journalism Conference, Mechelen, 19–21 May)
2016: ‘“Look, the poet is wearing red socks!”: Biographical Recalcitrance in Contemporary Literary History’ (IABA 2016, University of Cyprus, 26–29 May); ‘Mapping literary groups using graph theory and online reference works’ (2nd Digital Humanities Early Career Conference, King’s College London, 20 May)
2015: ‘prynDAMMMMM: J.H. Prynne and Wyndham Lewis’ (BAMS graduate conference, University of Exeter, 5 November); ‘“A few feet of film run backwards”: Tracing the Sonic Construction of Shellfire, 1914–30’ (Cultures of Sound and the War without End, University of Sussex, 2 June—see Publications); ‘For For the Monogram’ (New Papers in Contemporary British Poetry, University of Dundee, 21 March—see Publications)
2014: ‘Migration Patterns: Mapping a Literary Diaspora, 1960–62’, (Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar, IES, October 15—see Publications)
2013: ‘De Kooning, O’Hara, Prynne: Towards a Poetics of Paint’ (Writing Into Art, University of Strathclyde, 18–19 June—see Publications)

Reviews and academic journalism

2016: ‘Arrays’, Hix Eros, 7 (August 2016), pp. 10–14. Review of Ian Heames, Arrays.
2015: ‘Not spooked’, The Times Literary Supplement (11 December 2015), p. 17. ‘Commentary’ piece analysing Edward Upward’s MI5 file, http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/reviews/literature_and_poetry/article1643000.ece; ‘Exam board blues: have universities got the right answer?’, Times Higher Education (20 August 2015), https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/exam-board-blues-are-universities-the-answer
2013: ‘The AHRC’s doctoral training disasters’, Times Higher Education (19 December 2013), https://www.timeshighereducation.com/comment/opinion/the-ahrcs-doctoral-training-disasters/2009975.article; ‘Local Constellations’, Review 31. Review of The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines , vol. 3, http://review31.co.uk/article/view/129/local-constellations
2010: ‘Pothead Profits’, The Times Literary Supplement (17 September 2010). Review of Jess Walter, The Financial Lives of the Poets, http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/reviews/fiction/article746653.ece

Selected non-academic journalism

2018: ‘Criticism of Theresa May banned in Grenfell safety deal’, The Times (6 November 2018), https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/gagging-clauses-criticism-of-theresa-may-banned-in-grenfell-safety-deal-7mbdll6cj; ‘British firms behind $30m spending on US elections’, The Times (20 October 2018), https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/british-firms-behind-30m-spending-on-us-elections-c89rrfgph; ‘Ministers waste tens of millions of pounds on pledges’, The Times (30 March 2018), https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ministers-waste-tens-of-millions-of-pounds-on-pledges-r23jpgc57
2017: ‘Ministers’ email addresses and passwords up for sale’, The Times (23 June 2017), https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/russian-hackers-trade-british-ministers-email-addresses-and-passwords-hqtr7pv9z; ‘Child abuse network had 10,000 UK members’, The Times (8 May 2017), https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/child-abuse-network-had-10-000-uk-members-d665p2nwk; ‘Girl of 15 on sugar daddy site’, The Sunday Times (19 March 2017), https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/girl-of-15-on-sugar-daddy-site-5602zrxmf

Skills and professional development

2018: Sussex Humanities Lab summer workshop (University of Sussex)
Invited to participate in annual workshop on the theme ‘Narrative as Data <> Data as Narrative’.
2016: This&THAT Camp (University of Sussex)
Skills-sharing event at the Sussex Humanities Lab. Led a session on network analysis and visualisation using R and Shiny.; BAMS Postgraduate Training Day (University of Oxford)
The British Association for Modernist Studies’ triennial training day, focussing on textual criticism, archival research and public engagement.
2015: Associate Fellow (Higher Education Academy)
Professional award recognising teaching skills, based on classroom experience and knowledge of pedagogical best practice.
2014–15: English Lecturer Training Programme (University of Sussex)
Training programme for doctoral students involving eight fortnightly seminars and a 12-week co-teaching placement.
2014: Numerical Analysis Skills for Historians (UCL)
Selective, AHRC-funded workshop on statistical techniques, led by Professor John MacInnes (University of Edinburgh).

Administrative activities

2015–16: Organising Committee member (CHASE 2016 postgraduate conference)
Assisting with the organisation of the 2016 Consortium of the Humanities and the Arts South-east England (CHASE) postgraduate conference, held at the University of Kent on the theme of ‘Science and Literature’.; Editorial Board member (ZARF)
Reading, ranking and commenting on submissions to a small poetry journal based at Cardiff University.

Referees

Professor Keston Sutherland
Professor of Poetics and Lecturer in English
School of English, University of Sussex
k.sutherland@sussex.ac.uk

Professor David Herd
Professor of Modern Literature
School of English, University of Kent
d.herd@kent.ac.uk