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Dr Charlie Pullen, BA, MA, PhD (QMUL)

Charlie

Lecturer in Modern Literature

Email: c.pullen@qmul.ac.uk
Twitter: @charliepullen_

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I grew up and went to state schools in Brighton before coming to Queen Mary to study English as the first person in my family to go to university. After staying for an MA in modern literature and theory, I worked in widening participation at UCL, and then returned to QMUL to complete a PhD under the supervision of Professor Scott McCracken and Professor Morag Shiach. My thesis, which I am now beginning to turn into a book, explored the relations between British modernism and the rise of progressive experiments in education. In 2019, I won the Raymond Williams Society Postgraduate Essay Prize for an article on the pioneering art teacher Marion Richardson and her uneasy place within modernist culture, which was published in Key Words in 2021. I have written blogs for Times Higher Education and have reviewed books covering a range of topics, from Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf to the politics of English studies and the history of poppers. Having grown up by the sea, I now love living in London and consider myself, like Thomas Hardy, half a Londoner.

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