Dr Angus Wrenn

His position at LSE involves teaching the five courses covering Literature and Comparative Literature which are available at undergraduate level, and which form a major component of the BSc Language, Culture and Society programme.

Angus specialises in nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century English Literature, American Literature and Comparative Literature. His book-length publications include works on Henry James and French literature, the Russian dimension of the Irish playwright (and LSE founder) George Bernard Shaw, and the influence of Russian Literature upon British culture in the early twentieth century in From Orientalism to Cultural Capital: the Myth of Russia in British Literature in the 1920s (2017). His most recent publication (2018) is the chapter on Ford Madox Ford's literary criticism. in the Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford (2018). He is one of the editors of the ongoing Cambridge University Press edition of the complete fiction of Henry James.

Expertise

Angus specialises in Comparative Literature with particular reference to 19th and 20th century reception of British authors in Europe; Modernism in Britain and Europe; 19th and 20th century American Literature; Anglo-Soviet Literature; Cold War.