Academic Staff
Dr Jason Harding, PhD (Cantab)
(email at jason.harding@durham.ac.uk)
Biography
Jason Harding received his doctorate from King's College, Cambridge, in 2000. He joined the Department of English Studies at Durham in 2006. He is the author of The Criterion: Cultural Politics and Periodical Networks in Interwar Britain (OUP 2002), co-editor of T. S. Eliot and the Concept of Tradition (CUP 2007), and editor of Ford Madox Ford, Modernist Magazines and Editing (Rodopi 2010) and T. S. Eliot in Context (CUP 2011). He has published widely on modern literature, including articles on T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford and William Empson. He is a member of the Eliot Editorial Project, funded by a major AHRC award (total value £985,000), producing authorised, fully annotated editions of The Complete Prose (8 vols, 2013-15). He is contracted to edit The New Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot (forthcoming 2014).
At Durham, I have supervised successful PhD dissertations on "The British Short Story of the First World War" and "Mid Twentieth-Century Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought". Current students include: Nicoletta Asciuto, Francesca Bratton and (with Professor Clark) Matthew Griffiths. I would welcome proposals for postgraduate research on all aspects of twentieth-century literature and intellectual history.
Research Groups
- Critical Theory
- Editing, Bibliography and History of the Book
- Twentieth-Century Studies
Selected Publications
Articles: newspaper
- Harding, J. (2005). The Wayward William Empson. Times Literary Supplement 5335: 4-6.
- Harding, J. (2004). Prufrock and Prejudice. Times Literary Supplement 5299: 24.
- Harding, J. (2000). Montgomery Belgion and the Criterion. Times Literary Supplement 5082: 14-15.
Books: authored
- Harding, J. (2002). The Criterion: Cultural Politics and Periodical Networks in Inter-War Britain.. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Books: edited
- Harding, J. (2011). T. S. Eliot in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Harding, J. (2010). Ford Madox Ford, Modernist Magazines and Editing . International Ford Madox Ford Studies, Vol.9. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi.
- Harding, J. & Cianci, G. (2007). T. S. Eliot and the Concept of Tradition.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Books: sections
- Harding, J. (2012). The Myth of Venice in the Decline of Eliot and Pound. In Venice and the Cultural Imagination. O'Neill, M., Sandy, M. & Wootton, S. London: Pickering & Chatto. 141-155; 193-196.
- Harding, J. (2011). Publishing. In T. S. Eliot in Context. Harding, J. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 73-82.
- Harding, J. (2010). 'Modernist and Modern Poetry: an overview'. In The Cambridge History of English Poetry. O'Neill, M. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 725-745.
- Harding, J. (2009). The Idea of a Literary Review: T. S. Eliot and the Criterion. In The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume 1, Britain and Ireland 1880-1955. Brooker, P. & Thacker, A. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1: 346-363.
- Harding, J. (2008). Herbert Read and the Psychological Method in Criticism. In Re-Reading Read: New Views on Herbert Read. Paraskos, M. London: Freedom Press. 180-187.
- Harding, J. (2007). 'Empson and the Gifts of China.'. In Some Versions of Empson.. Bevis, M. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 84-103.
- Harding, J. (2007). Modernist Poetry and the Canon. In The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry. Davis, A. & Jenkins, L. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 225-243.
Journal papers: academic
- Harding, J. (2012). Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson and the King's College Mandarins. Cambridge Quarterly 41(1): 26-42.
- Harding, J. (2012). T. S. Eliot's Shakespeare. Essays in Criticism 62(2): 160-177.
- Harding, J. (2009). The Right Accent: Conrad and the English Review. Conradiana 41(2-3): 221-243.
- Harding, J. (2006). Eliot Without Tears. Modernism/Modernity 13(1): 917-924.
- Harding, J. (1998). Experiment in Cambridge: 'A Manifesto of Young England'. Cambridge Quarterly 27(4): 287-309.