York Notes Companions Twentieth Century American Literature and Beyond

Andrew Blades lectures at Bath Spa University and the University of Oxford. He has taught a wide variety of modules including William Faulkner, Twentieth-century American poetry (Stevens, Hughes, Berryman, Rich, Bishop, O’Hara, Ashbery), Twentieth-century American drama (O’Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee, Shepard, Shawn, Kushner) and The New Journalism: American non-fiction novels of the 1960s. His research interests lie in AIDS literature and the work of James Merrill, Thom Gunn and Eugene O’Neill. He also writes theatre reviews for The Stage newspaper.