Daniel Cordle

Research areas

Dr Cordle's research interests include:

• Nuclear literature and culture. Dr Cordle has published extensively in this area. His most recent book, Late Cold War Literature and Culture: The Nuclear 1980s (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) explores the extensive impact of nuclear culture in the final decade of the Cold War. His previous book, States of Suspense: The Nuclear Age, Postmodernism and United States Fiction and Prose (Manchester UP, 2008), was described as "insightful and compelling" (Technology and Culture), a "brilliant analysis of North American literature during the Cold War" (BSLS) and as opening up "rich, important pathways for future nuclear criticism" (Modern Fiction Studies). He is currently working on several projects, covering fictions of Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb, twenty-first century nuclear culture and the Anthropocene. His Instagram microblog on nuclear culture can be followed @nuclearculture.
• Literature and science: Dr Cordle has published a number of pieces about literature and science, including a monograph, Postmodern Postures: Literature, Science and the Two Cultures Debate (Ashgate, 1999).
• Postmodern literature
• Twentieth and twenty-first century literature

Opportunities to carry out postgraduate research towards an MPhil/PhD in the School of Arts and Humanities exist and further information may be obtained from the The NTU Graduate School. Dr Cordle welcomes applications to research nuclear culture and the other areas on which he works.

Press expertise

Dr Cordle can offer comment on 20th and 21st-century nuclear literature and culture; Cold War literature and film; nuclear protest; postmodern American literature; twentieth-century American literature (post-1950); literature and science; the Anthropocene; and the 'two cultures' debate (the relationship between the Arts and the Sciences).