Dr Angus McFadzean

Program Director of OUSSA (Oxford University Summer School for Adults)

Departmental Tutor in English Literature

Biography

Dr Angus McFadzean M.A. Hons (Glas), MSc. (Edin), DPhil (Oxon), FHEA is Departmental Tutor specialising in British and American Literature and Film. After completing a doctorate at Wadham College, Oxford, he worked with the Department for Continuing Education on their international programmes and summer schools, teaching literature of the late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century, specifically modernism and the works of Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and WB Yeats. He has also tutored at various Oxford colleges, including Pembroke, University College, Mansfield and St Catherine’s.

Currently, he is the Program Director of the Oxford University Summer School for Adults, leading a six-week programme involving over four hundred students and sixty tutors. He continues to teach on the Diploma of Creative Writing, day schools and summer schools.

Research interests

Dr McFadzean’s research interests lie in the long twentieth century and involve the intersection of aesthetics, narrative, genre and history in cultural production.

His doctorate focused on James Joyce’s concept of epiphany and is being revised for publication as James Joyce and the Aesthetics of Transgression. He also has an interest in the representations of suburbia in cinema and is currently working on a collection of essays with a colleague titled The Amblin Legacy: Coming of Age since the 1980s. Finally, he is interested in the role of petroleum in twentieth century cultural production and is researching a project on petrofiction in literature and film.

Explore the upcoming courses Angus will be teaching. 

Publications

MacDuff, McFadzean and Beja (2024) Collected Epiphanies of James Joyce: A Critical Edition. University of Florida Press.

McFadzean (2023) ‘The Aesthetic of Transgression: Love and Limits in the Early Work of James Joyce’. The James Joyce Quarterly. 60.1. Spring/Summer 2023.

McFadzean (2021) ‘Historicizing Dystopia: Suburban Fantastic Media and White Millennial Childhood’, Los Angeles Review of Books. 30th August 2021.

McFadzean (2019) Suburban Fantastic Cinema: Growing Up in the Late Twentieth Century. Columbia University Press.