Role
Professor of English Literature, specialising in modernism. You can find Professor Thacker on Twitter.
Career overview
Professor Thacker previously worked at De Montfort University and the University of Ulster.
Research areas
Professor Thacker has a world-leading profile for his research in modernist studies and modern periodical studies. He has published extensively on modernism and modern literature, with a particular emphasis upon institutions of modernity. Publications include the monographs,Modernism, Space and the City: Outsiders and Affect in Paris, Vienna, Berlin and London (2020),The Imagist Poets (2011), and Moving Through Modernity: Space and Geography in Modernism (2003). Edited/co-edited books include Magazines and Modern Identities: Global Cultures of the Illustrated Press, 1880-1945 (2023), and the three volumes for Oxford University Press upon The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines (2009-13). He was co-director of the AHRC-funded Modernist Magazines Project and is currently the UK PI on the Spaces of Translation: European Magazines, 1945-65 (SpaTrEM), funded by the AHRC-DFG.
He is currently working on a cultural history of the modern bookshop, and a new series of volumes on global modernist magazines for Oxford University Press.
At NTU he co-directs the research group on Periodicals and Print Culture.
He is an editor of the long-running interdisciplinary journal, Literature & History and of the book series Material Modernisms.
Professor Thacker has supervised and examined over 40 PhD students in many areas of twentieth century literature. Recently completed thesis topics have included: Queer Modernism; Modernist Objects; Humour in American Modernist Magazines; Katherine Mansfield and Magazines; Women Surrealists and the Post-Human. Please do get in touch if you wish to discuss a potential topic for research.Further information on postgraduate study at NTU may be obtained from the NTU Graduate School.
Awards and Fellowships
Awarded Vice-Chancellor’s Outstanding Researcher, NTU, 2018-9
Visiting Fellow, Cologne University, 2022.
External activity
Co-organised an exhibition at Nottingham Castle on Revolutions in Print: Rebellion, Reform, and the Press in 2021, as part of the work of the Periodicals and Print Culture Research Group.
Andrew was a member of the AHRC Peer Review College for 8 years. He has refereed grant proposals and promotion applications from across Europe and North America.
He was a founding member and the first elected Chair of the British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS).
Former executive committee member of Council of College and University English (CCUE, now University English)
Editor, Literature & History
Member of advisory boards for many journals including Book History, Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, and Modernist Cultures.
He has been invited to present many keynote lectures nationally and internationally, including in France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States.
Sponsors and collaborators
Andrew has received grant income of nearly £1m from the AHRB, AHRC, British Academy, Leverhulme Trust, and DFG.
Publications
Publications include:
Magazines and Modern Identities: Global Cultures of the Illustrated Press, 1880-1945 (2023), Thacker, A and Satterthwaite, T.
‘The Pure and the Dirty: Censorship, Obscenity, and the Modern Bookshop’, Modernism/Modernity (September 2022), 29:3, pp. 519-541.
‘Spatial Histories of Magazines and Modernisms’, in Historical Modernisms: Time, History and Modernist Aesthetics, eds Jean-Michel Rabaté and Angeliki Spiropoulou (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Modernism, Space and the City: Outsiders and Affect in Paris, Vienna, Berlin and London (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), Thacker, A.
The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines vol.3: Europe. Thacker A, Bru S, Weikop C and Brooker P, 2013, Oxford University Press
The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines vol.2: North America. Thacker A and Brooker P, 2012, Oxford University Press
Texts and Editions of Jean Rhys: Another Voyage in the Dark. Thacker A, Women: A Cultural Review, 2012, 23 (4), 510
The Imagist Poets. Thacker A, British Council / Northcote House, Writers and Their Work Series, 2011
The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms. Thacker A, Brooker P, Gasiorek A and Longworth D, 2010, Oxford University Press
The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines vol.1 Britain and Ireland, 1880-1955. Thacker A and Brooker P, 2009, Oxford University Press
Geographies of Modernism: Literature, Cultures, Spaces. Thacker A and Brooker P, 2005, Routledge
Moving Through Modernity: Space and Geography in Modernism. Thacker A, 2003, Manchester University Press
Press expertise
- Modernist literature
- Twentieth century literature
- Bookshops and bookselling
- Literary periodicals and magazines
- Independent and small press publishing
- Authors James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Jean Rhys