Role
Dr Cordle has worked at NTU since 1998. In 2009 he was made Reader in English and American Literature. He is an expert in nuclear and Cold War literature and culture and teaches in these areas, in American literature and more generally across the curriculum.
Research areas
Dr Cordle's research interests include:
- Nuclear and Cold War literature: Dr Cordle has published extensively in this area. His 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 writing a book about the nuclear 1980s in British and North American culture.
- Literature and science: Dr Cordle is co-editor, with Dr Philip Leonard, of the journal Writing Technologies. He 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 NTU Graduate School.
External activity
- Treasurer for The British Society for Literature and Science (2009-14)
- External Examiner, University College Cork, MA (2010-13)
- External Examiner, University College Dublin, PhD (2013)
- External Examiner, Royal Holloway, University of London, PhD (2009)
- External Panel Member for review of undergraduate English programmes, University College, Suffolk (2009)
- Assessor for funding application to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2008)
- External Examiner, University of Hertfordshire, undergraduate (2007-11)
- External Examiner, University of Wales at Lampeter, MPhil (2007)
- External Panel Member for review of undergraduate English programmes, University of Hertfordshire (2007)
- Regular Reviewer for the Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Scholarship (2007-present)
- External Examiner, University of Ulster, PhD (2005)
- External Assessor for new modules, University of Hertfordshire (2005)
Publications
Selected publications
- "That's Going to Happen to us. It is": Threads and the Imagination of Nuclear Disaster on 1980's British Television' Cordle D, Journal of British Cinema and Television, 2013, 10 (1), 71-92
- Legacy Waste: Nuclear Culture after the Cold War. Cordle D in (eds) Blouin MJ, Shipley M and Taylor J, The Silence of Fallout: Nuclear Criticism in a Post-Cold War World, 2013, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- 'Protest / Protect': British Nuclear Fiction of the 1980s. Cordle D, British Journal Of The History Of Science, 2012, 45 (4), 653-669
- States of Suspense: The Nuclear Age, Postmodernism and United States Fiction and Prose. Cordle D, 2008, Manchester; New York, Manchester University Press
- "Do not Leave your Homes": Containment Culture and its Fallout in Judith Merril's Shadow on the Hearth. Cordle D, Cultural Politics: An International Journal, 2008, 4 (3), 337-349
- '"In Dreams, in Imagination" Suspense, Anxiety and the Cold War in Tim O'Brien's The Nuclear Age'. Cordle D, Critical Survey, 2007, 19 (2), 101-120
- Cultures of Terror: Nuclear Criticism During and Since the Cold War. Cordle D, Literature Compass, 2006, 3 (6), 1186-1199
- Postmodern Postures: Literature, Science and the Two Cultures Debate. Cordle D, 1999, Aldershot, Ashgate
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Dr Cordle can offer comment on nuclear / apocalyptic literature and film; Cold War literature and film; nuclear protest; postmodern American literature; Twentieth-century American literature (post-1950); literature and science; and the 'Two Cultures' (the relationship between the Arts and the Sciences).