Dr Robin Sims
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Job title: Programme Leader
Email: r.sims@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: 01332 591874
Room: E718 Kedleston Road
Faculty: Arts, Design and Technology
School: School of Humanities
Subject Area: English
Programme Leader: BA English.
Teaching responsibilities
Tutor and module leader for: 'Critical Theory I' and 'Fantasy and the Fantastic in Literature and Film' (first year); 'Critical Theory II', 'The Art of Crime:Â Transgression in Literature and Film' and 'Modernism' (second year); 'Modern European Fiction', 'Realism and its Discontents: British Fiction 1945-2000' (third year).
Professional interests
Modernism; Postmodernism; fantasy, science fiction and horror; crime fiction; critical theory.
Research interests
Poststructuralist and psychoanalytic approaches to literature and culture; twentieth-century literature, art and film, with a particular focus on surrealism and its legacy; fantasy and myth.
Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Undergraduate qualifications
- BA (Joint Hons) English and American Literature, University of East Anglia
Postgraduate qualifications
- MA in Postmodernity, Cardiff University
Research qualifications
- PhD in Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University
